In the hardest days of the last century, faith in the future kept America alive and I tell you that America kept faith in the future alive for all the world.

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Of course, society's perception of smoking has changed a lot since the days of doctors actually endorsing one brand or another in the first half of last century.

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James Sisnett was born in the last year of the 19th century, on February 22, 1900, and was 113 years and 90 days old, when he passed away in his sleep, Gerard Sisnett said.

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