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Theodore Roosevelt tells Rebecca B. Swezey, “Sister Rebecca,” that he is sympathetic with her uncle’s circumstances but since he is no longer in any official position, all he can do is forward her letter on to the Commissioner of Pensions and ask him to look into the matter. Roosevelt hopes the commissioner will grant her uncle’s request.
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1911-12-13
President Roosevelt doubts if there has ever been a Commissioner of Pensions up to Vespasian Warner’s standards.
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1908-08-28
President Roosevelt thanks Reverend Morison Bryce for the articles he sent, and suggests he write to Joseph Gaston Baillie Bulloch, his cousin, who knows a great deal about genealogy.
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1908-08-08
Deputy Commissioner of Pensions Davenport states his qualifications to support his desire to be promoted to Commissioner. Davenport also urges that the Pension Department’s record system be changed to a card system in order to preserve the older records and to become more efficient in processing claims.
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1904-12-22
Deputy Commissioner of Pensions Davenport distances himself from criticism of Commissioner Eugene F. Ware. Davenport considers Ware to have been a very good commissioner. Davenport writes that the Bureau of Pensions was well run.
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1904-11-17
Commissioner of Pensions Henry Clay Evans’s retirement will not lessen the safeguards against fraud at the Pension Bureau. Evans has served for five years and President Roosevelt would be wise to convince Evans to serve for longer.
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1902-04-03
Commissioner Henry Clay Evans is clearly resigning from the Pension Bureau due to pressure on President Roosevelt from the Grand Army of the Republic. This resignation is not complimentary to the “Roosevelt backbone.”
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1902-03-03
Henry Clay Evans has served successfully as Commissioner of Pensions and it is hoped that his successor will continue his policies. There is some disappointment in President Roosevelt for not supporting Evans.
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1902-04-02
Finding a capable successor to Commissioner of Pensions Henry Clay Evans will be difficult because the Pension Bureau is always under attack by those who prey on the country or on veterans.
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1902-04-09
An example letter of how President Roosevelt could have handled Commissioner Evans’s resignation without creating controversy.
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1902-04-14
Evidence that Commissioner Evans’s resignation was not voluntary.
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1902-04-03
The unnamed author believes that President Roosevelt handled Commissioner Evans’s resignation poorly.
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1902-04-02
George A. Kessler is exhibiting a letter from Alice Roosevelt certifying that Moët & Chandon champagne was used to christen Emperor William II’s yacht. A German champagne was supposed to be used during the ceremony but Kessler paid $5,000 for the champagne to be switched. This raises the question of who received the money.
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1902
President Roosevelt hopes that Eugene F. Ware will accept the position of Commissioner of Pensions. Henry Clay Evans, the current Commissioner, will be receiving a promotion to the diplomatic service in Spain.
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1902-04-02
President Roosevelt tells Marcus A. Low that he does not see how he could justify refusing to accept Senator Joseph Ralph Burton’s nomination of Wilder Stevens Metcalf for Commissioner of Pensions.
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1901-12-14
President Roosevelt does not think he can justify refusing to accept Senator Joseph Ralph Burton’s nomination of Wilder Stevens Metcalf as Commissioner of Pensions.
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1901-12-14
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary informs J. E. Ralph that Roosevelt cannot grant or increase his pension, and Ralph should get in touch with the Pensions Bureau in Washington, D.C.
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1912-06-24
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary explains that Roosevelt does not “interfere in any official matter of any kind or sort” regarding pensions and refers James Farmer to the Commissioner of Pensions for the answer to his question.
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1912-04-05
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary explains that Roosevelt does not “interfere in any official matter of any kind or sort” regarding pensions and refers H. F. Reese to the Commissioner of Pensions for the answer to his question.
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1912-04-05
The secretary of Theodore Roosevelt informs John Alden Seabury that Roosevelt receives many requests to help people receive or increase pensions, but, although he sympathizes, he has declined to involve himself in official business since leaving the White House. He encourages Seabury to contact the Commissioner of Pensions at the federal Pensions Bureau.
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1912-04-04