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A card announcing the election of President Roosevelt as an honorary member of the United States Civil Service Retirement Association.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-20
Summary of the annual meeting of the Civil Service Reform Association. President Roosevelt was named a vice president of the organization but was also censured for several inconsistencies, particularly the appointment of James Sullivan Clarkson, an enemy of civil service reform, and a special order allowing the appointment of Joe Murray without examination.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902
Report of the Executive Committee and text of address from James Rudolph Garfield.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-01-31
President Roosevelt writes to President-elect William H. Taft about his desire to begin classifying fourth-class postmasters. Roosevelt has already taken steps to remove them from politics by ordering that their tenure will be permanent unless there is a valid reason for their removal. He expects that Congress and other politicians will be angry and oppose this action, and so he would like to do it in December so that he, and not Taft, will bear the brunt of their anger.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-11-16
President Roosevelt accepts his re-election as Vice President of the Civil Service Reform Association if Elliot H. Goodwin thinks it is beneficial for the association.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-05-11
Henry Van Kleeck reports that federal rules prohibiting office holders from engaging in political activity are not being enforced in Colorado.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-02-10
At a meeting of the National Civil Service Reform League, William Dudley Foulke laid out what the league should expect, and not expect, from the Roosevelt administration. The league is very supportive of President Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-10-16
John B. Trevor invites Vice President Roosevelt to speak during the month of October on behalf of the reorganization of the Harvard Civil Service Reform Club.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-08-28