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George B. Cortelyou informs L. Clarke Davis that President Roosevelt agrees that expediency is a great factor. However, considerations of expediency might not be admitted in this case because the conduct of the Lieutenant General of the Army has been of such great detriment to the army and to the nation.
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1902-04-16
President Roosevelt is pleased that L. Clarke Davis enjoyed the letters. He thanks Davis for the editorial regarding the Isthmian Canal Commission.
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1904-02-26
President Roosevelt thanks L. Clarke Davis for the “new proof of your kindly feeling.”
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1903-12-19
President Roosevelt would like to discuss the postal investigation and clippings L. Clarke Davis sent after the election.
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1903-10-30
President Roosevelt was amused with the two articles from the Times and has not seen the editorial in the Sun.
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1903-10-15
Over lunch, President Roosevelt will discuss some letters of Abraham Lincoln showing why he accepted misrepresentation rather than endlessly clarifying his position.
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1903-10-07
President Roosevelt claims that labor leaders are misrepresenting his statements and provides the facts in the Delaware case. Roosevelt also asks L. Clarke Davis to look to his actions and speeches to get the facts. Roosevelt also gives examples on corruptions that began before he was in office and how he is trying to stop them and remove the responsible people from office.
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1903-10-05
President Roosevelt thanks L. Clarke Davis for the editorial and feels the same about the Miller case.
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1903-09-25
President Roosevelt was afraid that Miller would be found guilty of some crime that necessitated his removal because such action would be misinterpreted. Roosevelt’s support of Miller has angered the labor unions but he does not intend to change his policy.
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1903-09-21
President Roosevelt never made public General Nelson Appleton Miles’s proposition about the Presidency, and he never intends to. Miles would deny the proposition and Roosevelt does not want to “get into an issue of personal veracity.”
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1903-08-27
President Roosevelt has a very low opinion of General Nelson Appleton Miles and it did not even occur to him to send Miles a letter upon his retirement. Roosevelt finds Miles to be self-interested and considers his time as an officer to be filled with “treachery and misconduct.”
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1903-08-24
In response to a recent article in the Ledger, President Roosevelt encloses a letter from Secretary of War Elihu Root, which explains that Roosevelt did not in any way intervene regarding General Nelson Appleton Miles’s retirement. Rather, the matter was handled in the course of routine business.
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1903-08-20
President Roosevelt thanks L. Clarke Davis for the editorial and wishes that the “Wall Street people” and the labor unions understood that his attitude towards them is the same.
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1903-08-08
President Roosevelt agrees that the selection of a vice-president should be left to the Republican National Convention.
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1903-06-29
President Roosevelt defends Postmaster Payne in light of the current Post Office scandal and states that he will take Joseph L. Bristow’s report into consideration when it is finished. Roosevelt hopes that L. Clarke Davis realizes that the scandal is something that Roosevelt inherited.
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1903-06-19
President Roosevelt thanks L. Clarke Davis for the kind editorial.
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1902-10-18
President Roosevelt received the editorial setting forth charges against Henry D. Saylor. He explains that the charges were investigated thoroughly when Saylor was first appointed and Saylor has the support of several prominent people. Roosevelt does not see any reason to take additional action on the matter.
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1901-12-20