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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Nov 28, 1904

The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Warner Mountains Forest Reserve.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Nov 28, 1904

Substitute watchmen in the Government Printing Office will hereafter be regarded as classified under the civil-service rules.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Nov 28, 1904

and when such conference does not result in agreement the case shall be presented to the Attorney-General for his opinion.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Nov 28, 1904

The forty persons named in the list transmitted to the Civil Service Commission by the Public Printer under date of October 4, 1904, now serving in that office, will be treated as classified in accordance with section 6, Rule II…

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Nov 28, 1904

before making any appointment or employment for service with respect to which there may be reasonable doubt as to the requirement of examination the head of the Department or office shall confer with the Civil Service Commission for the…

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Nov 28, 1904

No person shall be appointed or employed in any Executive Department or office for the performance of any service of the character performed by classified employees except in accordance with the provisions of the civil-service rules;

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Nov 25, 1904

I wish to propose a toast to President Loubet and the French nation and may the bonds of friendship that have ever united them with the United States of America be even tightened in the future.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Nov 25, 1904

One of your publicists has used the expression the 'peace of justice,' and I am particularly pleased at what you said as to the efforts of this country to bring about throughout the world the 'peace of justice.'

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Nov 21, 1904

I had long known of the very admirable work done with singular modesty and self-effacement by Mr. Downey in trying to give homes to the homeless.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Nov 21, 1904

It is not of the slightest use to hear the word, if you do not try to put it into effect afterward.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Nov 21, 1904

This is the first arid will be the only time during my Presidency that I shall ever introduce a speaker to an audience; and I am more than glad to do it in this instance.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Nov 19, 1904

I wish to see courage, perseverance, the willingness to face work, to face, you men, if it is necessary, danger.

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