Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"I directed or approved every action, and am responsible for all that was done in carrying out the will of the Congress; and the provisions of the law, enacted by Congress after exhaustive examination ..."

"Now, these stories as a matter of fact need no investigation whatever."

"They consist simply of a string of infamous libels."

"I recommend that a law be passed allowing the Secretary of War, within a fixed period of time, say a year, to reinstate any of these soldiers whom he, after careful examination, finds to have been inn..."