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President Roosevelt has sent David Starr Jordan’s letter to Secretary of the Navy William H. Moody and will try to act upon Jordan’s suggestion.
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1902-09-25
President Roosevelt informs Governor Odell that Secretary of the Navy William H. Moody will proceed as soon as the men who have already been designated receive their appointments.
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1902-07-03
President Roosevelt sends Senator Aldrich a copy of Commissioner of Labor Carroll D. Wright’s report on the anthracite coal strike. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge and Secretary of the Navy William H. Moody are in agreement that the report should be published, and Roosevelt asks Aldrich to look over the report and respond with his views.
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1902-08-26
Theodore Roosevelt agrees with Representative Madison regarding the undesirability of the precedent established and was the only person to protest against it. While an ex-president is a private citizen and should appear before a Senate committee if asked, it should only be under exceptional circumstances. Roosevelt read the testimony before Madison’s committee. He thanks Hines for his treatment of George H. Earle and discusses the latter’s poor conduct.
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1911-08-11
Theodore Roosevelt tells Felix H. Levy he does not doubt Levy’s ability to write the antitrust law, but the articles should not be published.
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1916-02-03
President Roosevelt forwards William Allen White, editor of The Emporia Gazette, a letter from Associate Justice William H. Moody, which he says shows “what a fine fellow Moody is.” He asks White to keep the letter confidential, and to return it once he has read it.
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1908-12-08
President Roosevelt is pleased that William Allen White liked his message. He had originally written more strongly about judges, and believes that while there are few judges who are actually corrupt, there are many who are not fit to remain on the bench.
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1908-11-30
President Roosevelt invites James Ford Rhodes and his wife to lunch on December 29 at 1:30. He will invite British Ambassador James Bryce, Secretary of State Elihu Root, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, and Supreme Court Justices William H. Moody and Oliver Wendell Holmes.
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1908-11-11
President Roosevelt thanks Justice Lurton for his letter. While he desires to have an extended conversation on the injunctive process matter with Lurton and Justice William H. Moody, there is no immediate reason for it because he has already written his annual address. As such, there is no reason for Lurton to visit unless otherwise planned. Roosevelt asks Lurton to inform him in advance of his visit so he can arrange a satisfying conversation.
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1907-11-15
President Roosevelt congratulates Francis J. Heney for the work he has been doing prosecuting governmental corruption in San Francisco with Rudolph Spreckels, District Attorney William Henry Langdon, and Mayor Edward Robeson Taylor. Next time they meet in person, Roosevelt hopes to speak with Heney about injuries he has done Supreme Court Justice William H. Moody.
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1907-11-07
President Roosevelt refutes the points made in an article published in Collier’s Weekly accusing Supreme Court Justice William H. Moody of misconduct while overseeing the Oregon land fraud scandal as Attorney General. The article alleged that Moody’s personal grudge against the chief prosecutor of the trial, U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon Francis J. Heney, led to him nearly undermining the case by allowing a U.S. Marshal implicated in the scandal to remain in his position, suggesting a potentially compromised judge to sit the case, and refusing to appoint the Heney-recommended William C. Bristol as District Attorney. The piece has several handwritten additions and notes which Roosevelt includes in the final draft of his piece.
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1907-10-26
President Roosevelt refutes the points made in an article published in Collier’s Weekly accusing Supreme Court Justice William H. Moody of misconduct while overseeing the Oregon land fraud scandal as Attorney General. The article alleged that Moody’s personal grudge against the chief prosecutor of the trial, U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon Francis J. Heney, led to him nearly undermining the case by allowing a U.S. Marshal implicated in the scandal to remain in his position, suggesting a potentially compromised judge to sit the case, and refusing to appoint the Heney-recommended William C. Bristol as District Attorney.
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1907-10-26
President Roosevelt wrote to Supreme Court Justice William H. Moody on the suggestion of Anna Roosevelt Cowles, and forwards Moody’s response to her.
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1907-09-28
President Roosevelt responds to a letter from Senator Hopkins. Roosevelt explains that the process for selecting an attorney general is the same in each state, and the Department of Justice prefers to select men that it already knows to serve in the state governments.
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1907-05-24
President Roosevelt describes to Mark Sullivan the considerations that have gone into his selections for federal judgeships. Roosevelt reviews his appointments in detail, noting that some were made at the request of the local organization and some against their wishes. The goal in each case was to appoint someone “of the high character, the good sense, the trained legal ability, and the necessary broad-mindedness of spirit…essential to a good judge.”
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1907-05-13
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1907-05-02
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Wadsworth, William Austin, 1847-1918
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President Roosevelt tells his son Kermit Roosevelt about the family’s activities on their trip to Jamestown, Virginia, for the Ter-centennial Exposition. Roosevelt enjoyed the fleet review, gave a speech to open the celebration, and attended a dinner hosted by Henry St. George Tucker. The family also visited three plantations on the James River: Shirley, Westover, and Brandon.
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1907-04-29
President Roosevelt believes Arthur Hamilton Lee handled the “Swettenham matter” efficiently, calling the matter itself a “cosmic incident” and citing others like Swettenham in American Government, most notably General James Harrison Wilson. He was amused by the opinions of John William Burgess, who was awarded the Theodore Roosevelt professorship in at the University of Berlin. While Roosevelt admires some of Burgess’s scholarly accomplishments, he considers Burgess “hopefully wrong-headed” and criticizes his first lecture denouncing the Monroe Doctrine.
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1907-04-08
President Roosevelt is sorry that he cannot give Senator Knox the chair as promised, as Justice William H. Moody has purchased it.
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1907-02-06
President Roosevelt informs Senator Frye that he received his letter with an enclosure from the recently dismissed Attorney for Puerto Rico Noah B. K. Pettingill. Attorney General William H. Moody reported that “Mr. Pettingill gave no satisfactory explanation of the charges against him,” and Roosevelt felt his conduct was “ruinous to the administration of the affairs of Puerto Rico” if allowed to go unpunished.
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1906-12-06