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President Roosevelt approves of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis’s decision, and congratulates Edwin Walter Sims on his work as District Attorney.
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1907-01-06
Attorney General Moody writes to President Roosevelt regarding Moody’s appointment of Assistant District Attorney Cushman to the role of Attorney General special assistant. Moody wishes for news of this appointment to be kept quiet.
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1905-01-26
James Sullivan Clarkson forwards a letter to President Roosevelt from Colonel L. E. Parsons of Alabama.
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1904-12-20
President Roosevelt thanks United States Attorney Goss for the letter, and additionally praises him for his conduct, saying that he is “one of the men who has made good.”
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1909-03-01
President Roosevelt encloses a pair of letters pertaining to Oregon politics, and asks Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock to look through them. Roosevelt believes the government should not put itself in an awkward position by backing United States Attorney Francis J. Heney too strongly, and recalls a similar instance in which Assistant Postmaster General Joseph L. Bristow let “his zeal … [run] away with his discretion.”
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1905-08-14
President Roosevelt tells Attorney General Moody that his reservation about appointing Thomas A. McBride was that he was concerned he was loyal to John H. Mitchell, but he now believes that McBride will be acceptable. He was impressed by Charles Erskine Scott Wood’s letter about Oregon politics.
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1905-08-14
President Roosevelt has been informed of a pending case against District Attorney Horace Speed of Oklahoma. Roosevelt would like a thorough report on these serious allegations.
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1903-12-12
Admiral Harrington highly recommends that New York State Commission member Hugh Gordon Miller be appointed to a government position.
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1906-06-15
Senator Fulton writes to President Roosevelt regarding District Attorney Heney’s report that charges Fulton with supporting John Hicklin Hall for district attorney in return for his agreement not to prosecute Senator Brownell. Fulton discusses errors in the report and affirms that he believed Brownell was being unfairly persecuted, but states he never bargained with Hall. Furthermore, much of the evidence comes from letters by Senator Mitchell, which Fulton claims he did not see. Fulton includes copies of the correspondence between Brownell and himself.
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1905-12-12
Attorney General Moody writes to William Loeb regarding an enclosed letter for President Roosevelt. According to Moody the letter was written at the request of the Vermont delegation.
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1905-12-12
John Mitchell, vice president of the United Mine Workers of America, has drawn President Roosevelt’s attention to the fact that West Virginian miners and other labor workers were opposed to the action of Reese Blizzard, United States attorney for the northern district of West Virginia. Roosevelt informed Mitchell that if specific information could be filed against Blizzard, Mitchell should bring it to his attention. Since Blizzard’s reappointment will be considered in early December, Mitchell has requested that along with a committee of West Virginia businessmen that will be meeting with Roosevelt, John Nugent and Clark Johnson, members of United Mine Workers of America, be received as well.
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1905-11-15