Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

People have spoken as if this discharge from the service was a punishment. I deny emphatically that such is the case, because as punishment ...

Precisely the same action would have been taken had the troops been white--indeed, the discharge would probably have been made in more summa...

But I wish it distinctly understood that the fact of the birthplace of either officer is one which I absolutely refuse to consider.

I ordered the discharge of nearly all the members of Companies B, C, and D of the Twenty-fifth Infantry by name, in the exercise of my const...