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Samuel Montgomery Roosevelt asks President Roosevelt to assist with Henry L. Roosevelt receiving a leave of absence for a year. Samuel hopes that Archibald B. Roosevelt is well.
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1907-03-15
Admiral C. H. Davis writes to Albert A. Ackerman, Commandant at Guantanamo Bay, that he has authorized extended leave for Guantanamo Bay Assistant Paymaster Lawrence G. Haughey in Jamaica until he can find a vessel on which to return to Cuba.
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1907-01-19
Admiral Davis writes to Secretary of the Navy Metcalf that he has authorized extended leave for Guantanamo Bay Assistant Paymaster Lawrence G. Haughey in Jamaica until he can find a vessel on which to return to Cuba.
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1907-01-19
Admiral Davis writes to Admiral Evans that he has authorized extended leave for Guantanamo Bay Assistant Paymaster Lawrence G. Haughey in Jamaica until he can find a vessel on which to return to Cuba.
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1907-01-19
General Wood needs to take a leave of absence to take his son home to the United States to put him into school at Groton Academy, and details his plans for travel during his absence. Wood encloses a response from Adjutant General Fred C. Ainsworth authorizing Wood’s return home. Wood is glad to continue on duty in the Philippines and considers it the best command in the service.
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1907-01-18
Assistant Paymaster Haughey requests his leave be extended until he can get transportation back to the base, as he has been caught without transportation back to his naval base. He is not sure that his telegram to the commandant at Guantanamo has gone through.
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1907-01-18
President Roosevelt encloses for Acting Secretary of the Navy Newberry telegrams from Philippines Governor General James Francis Smith and president-elect William H. Taft. In light of Smith’s telegram, Roosevelt feels it is “absolutely unwarranted” not to allow the crews shore leave in Manila. He orders Newberry to tell Admiral Charles S. Sperry that, seeing as Admiral Giles B. Harber’s men have been given full shore leave, Sperry should grant his crew shore leave with precautions.
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1908-11-21
President Roosevelt encloses a letter from Admiral Charles S. Sperry requesting to grant leave for the men at Tokyo. Roosevelt asks Secretary of the Navy Metcalf to bring the matter to Secretary of State Elihu Root’s attention. The president believes in a “moderate quantity of leave.”
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1908-04-17
President Roosevelt instructs General Wood to give Manila paymaster Major Beecher B. Ray four months leave.
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1908-01-16
President Roosevelt requests President of Johns Hopkins University Ira Remsen grant Jacob H. Hollander a leave of absence to “complete [the] mission in the public interest.”
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1906-09-18
Theodore Roosevelt discusses a leave of absence request.
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1904-10-01
President Roosevelt is glad that Secretary of the Navy Morton went to see the naval maneuvers. Roosevelt urges Morton to take ten days off, and informs him that he has heard that the naval officers have appreciated Morton as Secretary.
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1904-09-12
President Roosevelt was pleased with Robert Barnwell Roosevelt’s letter and agrees that whatever else happens he has done “substantive work.” Roosevelt was able to secure leave from the War Department for Granville Fortescue and he will be leaving for the east soon.
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1904-02-27
President Roosevelt believes that Robert Peary has done valuable work as an Arctic explorer and supports giving him a leave of absence.
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1903-08-28
President Roosevelt requests leave for Father Edward J. Vattmann so Vattmann can discuss the Philippines with a “number of gentlemen.”
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1902-12-04
Wilbur S. Hinman requests permission from Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt to take all or part of the following Monday off.
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1897-10-13
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt will look into the matter Secretary of the Navy Long mentions. He went to New York City on Saturday and is resolved not to leave Washington D. C. while Long is away again unless needed, even if that means not seeing his family until the fall. Roosevelt will compile a list of ships that are available to send to the East as requested by President William McKinley.
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1897-04-26
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt informs President McKinley that before leaving, Secretary of the Navy John Long Davis permitted him to attend a dinner given by Seth Low at Columbia College. He will be away for approximately six hours but can be contacted before then should he be needed as acting secretary.
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1897-04-23
Chauncey E. Hackett shares with Theodore Roosevelt that he has received orders to travel to Winnipeg, Canada, which he has protested but has been met with leave of absence without pay for an indefinite period. Hackett lists to Roosevelt his reasons for not being able to go and hopes he can offer his help.
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1911-10-22
Dan Tyler Moore asks his cousin, President Roosevelt, if he could grant him two months leave for medical purposes as General Charles Morton will not grant his request.
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1907-12-04