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Robert Lincoln O’Brien, reporter and editor for the Boston Transcript, writes to Benjamin F. Barnes, Assistant Secretary to the President, stating he is keeping up the fight for reform, noting that one Mr. Pou had joined the fight as well. O’Brien also encloses an article he wrote for the New York Mail.
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1906-01-15
The enclosed papers show that there should be an investigation by the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, which is led by James Wolcott Wadsworth. President Roosevelt tells Senator Gamble that the incident demonstrates that this sort of executive work should be done by executive departments which answer the President, rather than by legislative bodies.
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1908-10-12
President Roosevelt is pleased to hear about Major Llewellyn’s work and the news about his son, Morgan Llewellyn, going with John Campbell Greenway. Regarding the water boundary commission, Roosevelt writes that no one was willing to speak out against General Anson Mills, and he was favoured by the Mexican authorities. In response to the other situation, Roosevelt will attempt to find employment for Llewellyn.
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1908-09-21
President Roosevelt has Samuel S. Slater’s letter and awaits the affidavit. Roosevelt clarifies that concerning Panama, and his administration, he strives for transparency and public disclosure.
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1908-09-16
President Roosevelt must get the State Department involved in order to solve the issue in Robert DeCourcy Ward’s alarming letter, but Ward has marked the letter “strictly personal and confidential.”
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1908-09-15
President Roosevelt is glad Cecil Andrew Lyon anticipates a good run by John Nicholas Simpson, candidate for Governor of Texas. Roosevelt will send for the report from Special Investigator Nevius.
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1908-09-15
President Roosevelt writes to Secretary of War Wright with a letter from Samuel S. Slater and asks that the charges be fully investigated before any contract is awarded.
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1908-09-12
President Roosevelt will investigate Samuel S. Slater’s charges, but corrects him on his statements regarding any poor work on the Isthmus, and admonishes him for making such claims in a letter that will go to the War Department.
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1908-09-12
President Roosevelt received Archbishop P. J. Ryan’s letter and will consider Colonel George Henry Torney’s record. The Post Office department will look into the case of Mrs. White, and unless she has engaged in misconduct, she is not at risk.
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1908-09-12
President Roosevelt requests Secretary of the Interior Garfield personally look into the matter of the highwayman in Yellowstone National Park and its implications on future policing of the park.
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1908-09-08
President Roosevelt believes Noble is a scoundrel. He would be delighted if Attorney General Bonaparte relayed the message that the investigation will press on regardless of the monetary contributions of Noble’s clients to William Jennings Bryan or William H. Taft.
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1908-09-07
President Roosevelt wants to investigate the political activity in the Porter-Wadsworth district, including all its postmasters. He asks Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou for suggestions about who should conduct the investigation.
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1908-08-27
President Roosevelt notifies Frank B. Kellogg that the issue he objects will not be publicized in the report. Roosevelt doubts the necessity of the investigation Kellogg proposes but it will go forward if needed.
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1908-08-25
President Roosevelt sends William L. Ward part of a letter from Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte. There has been indiscrete talk concerning the case. Roosevelt assures Ward he will not take action until there is an investigation and if obligated to do so.
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1908-08-17
President Roosevelt asks Attorney General Bonaparte to tell him the facts of a grand jury investigation concerning Charles F. Brooker. Roosevelt is concerned for his friend and Assistant United State Attorney, Alford Warriner Cooley, and asks Bonaparte if he can be given sixty days pay before ending his service. Roosevelt also asks for Bonaparte’s opinion on a letter from Emory Speer.
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1908-08-14
President Roosevelt suggests that William Sowden Sims consider adding a Democrat to a commission Roosevelt will soon name, for example, former Navy Secretary Hilary A. Herbert. Roosevelt encloses a copy of the invitations he will send to the appointees.
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1908-08-13
President Roosevelt thanks James Burton Reynolds for the reports and accompanying papers he sent. Roosevelt asks what Reynolds recommends doing with the reports, whether he should make them public and send the recommendations to Congress.
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1908-08-12
President Roosevelt informs Frederick C. Stevens that William Loeb has taken over the investigation of John A. Merritt, but Loeb is away on holiday, so Roosevelt has sent Stevens’ letter to Secretary of the Treasury George B. Cortelyou with instructions to take “immediate and drastic action” in the case.
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1908-08-11
President Roosevelt invites Henry Cantwell Wallace to serve on the Country Life Commission, which he is establishing to study and report upon the present conditions for farmers and their families in rural areas with the goal of making farming life more attractive.
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1908-08-10
President Roosevelt invites Walter Hines Page to serve on the Country Life Commission, which he is establishing to study and report upon the present conditions for farmers and their families in rural areas, with the goal of making farming life more attractive.
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1908-08-10