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President Roosevelt was concerned by John L. Hunter’s letter. While he regards John P. Jaeckel highly, he does not know of any vacancies that he could be put into.
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1905-06-24
President Roosevelt sends Secretary of the Treasury Shaw some messages from the United States Civil Service Commission, and asks him to direct Internal Revenue Commissioner John Watson Yerkes to instruct Internal Revenue Collector William McCoach to dismiss Clarence Meeser, Deputy Collector of Internal Revenues for Philadelphia, immediately. He also expects Yerkes to investigate cases of this sort on his own initiative in the future without having to turn to the Civil Service Commission.
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1905-06-20
President Roosevelt appoints Gifford Pinchot to serve on the Committee on Department Methods. The committee is to investigate improving the administration of government departments and services by adopting “best modern business practices.” Roosevelt identifies several things which should be looked at including salaries, purchasing supplies, and the “elimination of useless letter-writing.”
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1905-06-02
President Roosevelt asks Secretary of the Treasury Shaw to call auditors’ attention to new registers listing unclassified laborers. Any new appointments should be made from those registers.
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1905-03-30
President Roosevelt tells Cardinal Gibbons he has sent his note to Secretary of War Taft. Roosevelt will have Civil Service Commissioner Alford Warriner Cooley look in to the matter of Mrs. Powers.
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1905-03-15
President Roosevelt thanks James Denton for his “frank and manly letter,” and praises Denton’s public service career.
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1905-03-08
President Roosevelt tells John Thompson that he informed the Civil Service Commissioners that John Findley Wallace, Chief Engineer of the Isthmian Canal Commission, must be given a free hand.
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1905-03-11
President Roosevelt thanks William Jennings Bryan for the letter and editorial on civil service reform, which he will discuss with Civil Service Commissioner Alford Warriner Cooley.
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1905-02-09
President Roosevelt accepts Commissioner of Indian Affairs Jones’s resignation with regret. Roosevelt praises Jones for his work in “one of the most thankless and difficult positions in the Government” and for being an excellent example of a public servant.
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1904-12-23
President Roosevelt informs Albert Loren Cheney he is unable to reinstate Cheney since he has been separated from civil service for twelve years.
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1904-12-03
President Roosevelt thanks Eugene F. Ware for staying as Commissioner of Pensions during the election campaign and wishes he would consent to stay longer.
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1904-08-25
President Theodore Roosevelt agrees with the Civil Service Commission’s reasoning and will take no further action concerning the Woman’s Relief Corps petition. Roosevelt also clarifies that his title is simply “the President” or “Mr. President;” he does not wish to be addressed as “Your Excellency.”
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1904-09-01
President Roosevelt requests that the employee of the Isthmian Canal Commission be placed under civil service rules.
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1904-08-22
President Roosevelt has written to Attorney General William H. Moody as advised by Secretary of War Taft. Admiral John Grimes Walker has been informed that employees of the Isthmian Canal Commission will be put under the Civil Service Commission.
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1904-08-22
After speaking with Secretary of War Taft, President Roosevelt has decided that the employees of the Isthmian Canal Commission will be put under the Civil Service Commission.
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1904-08-22
President Roosevelt thanks William Dudley Foulke for the letter he wrote to Representative Frederick Huntington Gillett stating the facts about the exceptions. Roosevelt does not know much about exceptions as he followed the recommendation of the Civil Service Commission “without question.” He wonders if James Rudolph Garfield should explain the exceptions for the Department of Commerce and Labor.
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1904-04-18
Ambassador Storer tells Francis Augustus MacNutt that the report concerning his Washington club has not reached him nor his wife, Maria Longworth Storer. Mrs. Storer heard of the “manner and reason” of MacNutt’s resignation from the civil service from a “sound authority” who named another authority on the subject when questioned; these were President Roosevelt, then Civil Service Commissioner, and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. Storer believed the report to have come from Archibald Loudon Snowden or Mr. Griggs.
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1906-09-01
On behalf of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, William Loeb thanks Florence McDevitt for the letter and conveys her regret that she cannot give any assistance. Both President Roosevelt and Edith Roosevelt receive many similar requests for aid, and cannot address them individually. Additionally, the positions paying more than the one McDevitt mentioned can only be filled through competitive examination by the Civil Service Commission.
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1903-10-07
President Roosevelt sends birthday wishes and thanks Ambassador White for his many years of public service.
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1902-09-15
Brief biographies of William McKinley and President Roosevelt that highlight their military service.
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1901-09-21