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President Roosevelt has received the letter regarding the complaint of the Civil Service Reform Association. He has written to Civil Service Commissioner Alford Warriner Cooley to find out about the classification of the fourth class post offices. Roosevelt will take up all the cases with Henry C. Payne when he returns to Washington.
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1903-09-11
Theodore Roosevelt sends General Barry papers regarding Captain Brainard’s case. Roosevelt believes Brainard has performed well and should not be discharged.
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1911-07-11
President Roosevelt informs Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou that David M. Dunne, Collector of Internal Revenue for Oregon, should be retained in his position in recognition of the work he has done with Henry Waldo Coe in service to President-Elect William H. Taft’s campaign. Roosevelt asks that this letter be put in Dunne’s file as a reminder for Taft’s administration as well.
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1908-12-19
President Roosevelt would be glad to accept the gift of some socks from William Wingate Sewall and his wife, Mary Alice Sherman Sewall. He also wrote to Flavilla Sleeper Caldwell to thank her for the socks, as Sewall suggested. Roosevelt is glad that Sewall approves of what he said about the secret service men, and thinks that Congress is very foolish. He has spoken to President-elect William H. Taft about keeping Sewall in his current position, but also encloses a letter in case there is any question. Roosevelt requests that he keep this letter strictly confidential, otherwise he would receive many other requests for similar letters.
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1908-12-18
President Roosevelt asks Senator Penrose if he can submit John Dunbar Pringle’s name as a candidate for appraiser of merchandise at Pittsburgh, as he thinks it would be a good thing to do.
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1908-12-17
President Roosevelt asks Senator Knox if he can submit John Dunbar Pringle’s name as a candidate for appraiser of merchandise at Pittsburgh, as he thinks it would be a good thing to do.
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1908-12-17
President Roosevelt informs Governor Comer that although he wants more men from Alabama in the service, Mr. Craig is too old to appoint to the consular service. He asks Comer to send the names of one or two younger men who could take the exam.
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1908-11-09
President Roosevelt is concerned by Helen Martin’s letter. It is unlikely that before the end of the term there will be an open position to which he can appoint her husband, James Martin, and he has decided that he will not speak to President-elect William H. Taft about appointments. He asks for suggestions as to where he could place Martin.
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1908-11-07
President Roosevelt tells General Grant that he will reappoint Helen Dortch Longstreet if the vacancy happens in his term.
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1908-11-06
President Roosevelt responds to the United States Civil Service Commission’s letter about John A. Flickinger, who has been working as a temporary watchman in the Weather Bureau. Given that Flickinger’s work has been satisfactory, and that Chief Clerk of the Weather Bureau Daniel Joseph Carroll has issued a letter of recommendation for him, Roosevelt has signed the order that allows Flickinger to be certified without further examination.
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1908-10-19
In response to John C. Campbell’s letter to Ethel Roosevelt, William Loeb informs him that members of the Roosevelt family do not interfere in the appointment of government positions.
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1908-06-12
President Roosevelt would like the act regarding government employee compensation to be amended in the Senate to be more liberal than the House. He believes that the bill should include a provision for permanent disability, and that civilians injured or killed in service of the government should also be included.
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1908-05-18
President Roosevelt has looked into Frank Benjamin Raynor’s case and believes he is entitled to “anything [Roosevelt] can do for [him].” He encloses a copy for the order he sent to the Civil Service Commission and asks what position Raynor desires.
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1908-04-04
President Roosevelt recommends to the United States Civil Service Commission that Frank Benjamin Raynor, who lost his health in a rescue while working as a surfman, be given any government position he is qualified for. Roosevelt includes a letter to Raynor from Treasury Secretary Leslie M. Shaw, describing the actions that Raynor and fellow surfman Albert Latham took following the wreck of the schooner Benjamin C. Cromwell in 1904. Raynor was awarded a medal for his actions.
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1908-04-04
President Roosevelt tells his son Archibald that Weast, a man the younger Roosevelt has taken interest in, has been taken care of. Judge Bromwell has arranged the transfer. Roosevelt is proud that his son called Weast to his attention. He also recounts a “most comic letter” from Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., asking them to purchase his horse and pay him for it. Roosevelt also updates Archibald on Quentin and the ongoing social engagements at the White House.
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1908-01-15
President Roosevelt thanks Eugene W. F. ReQua for the letter, and asks for the name of the government land inspector that ReQua mentioned, as he wishes to write to him privately and get all the facts. Roosevelt admits that he knows “how very much wickedness there has been in the Indian and public land work in the past,” but believes that the government is making progress in eliminating crookedness.
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1906-07-21
President Roosevelt informs Jersey City Mayor Fagan that there had been an investigation into the two men that Fagan mentioned, and the charges were never substantiated. Roosevelt tells Fagan that he cannot get involved in factional fights about appointments, and that if he broke this rule to investigate a particular case, he would be obliged to do so in every case, making it impossible to get actual work done.
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1906-05-09
President Roosevelt is sorry that Charles B. Aycock cannot accept an unspecified position, as Roosevelt felt he was the best fitted candidate. He tells Aycock that “my politics stop at the water-line. I only wish I could get some of the members of your party in the Senate to take the same view!”
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1906-04-20
President Roosevelt believes that John Watson Yerkes in Kentucky stands strong in favor of civil service reforms against “the assaults of Senators and Congressmen and the spirit of Yale ’78 as embodied in the Secretary of War.” He asks Secretary of War Taft why he thinks Ingram is a good candidate when he was an inefficient clerk under Yerkes.
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1906-01-24
President Roosevelt tells Senator Hale that the Department of the Interior reported that Mr. Thompson was inefficient and a new man has already been appointed.
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1905-11-27