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In response to a report by Senator James A. Hemenway, President Roosevelt defends the Secret Service’s work to Senator Hale of Maine, the acting chairman of the Committee on Appropriations in the U.S. Senate. Roosevelt refutes each claim made in the report and notes that the current limitations placed on the Secret Service is hindering justice.
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1909-02-19
President Roosevelt is glad Brooks Adams feels as he does about the Secret Service matter and notes that Senator Benjamin R. Tillman made an “exhibition” of himself.
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1909-01-12
President Roosevelt does not wish to publicly comment on the census bill out of caution that his thoughts may jeopardize the bill’s success, but agrees with Lucius B. Swift’s view on the matter. Roosevelt also notes “what jacks” certain congressmen have made of themselves regarding the Secret Service controversy.
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1909-01-12
Benjamin Ide Wheeler requests a letter of introduction from President Roosevelt before Wheeler “bears the name of Roosevelt” in Berlin, Germany. Wheeler believes that the people sympathize with the position Roosevelt has taken regarding the Japanese. He additionally states that the people of Congress will find that 99.9% of their constituents think that Roosevelt’s answer to the Secret Service business was a blow “to the solar plexus.”
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1909-01-25
Frank B. Kellogg writes to William Loeb to inform him that he wants President Roosevelt to know that, in the course of the Standard Oil investigation, they did not use the Secret Service, apart from finding witnesses once. Kellogg wished to make this point known because he heard that Roosevelt would be addressing Congress at some point in response to an inquiry regarding the secret service, and did not wish for the Standard Oil case to be mentioned. If this case is mentioned, Kellogg believes that some senators who dislike him will take it as an opportunity to criticize him publicly.
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1908-12-19