The Department of Justice is to stand behind and co-operate with the administrative body, but the administrative body itself must be given the power to do the work and then held to a strict accountability for the exercise of that power.
Roosevelt emphasizes the need for accountability in the administrative body overseeing railroads.
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One of the chief principles for which I have stood, and for which I now stand, and which I have always endeavored and always shall endeavor to reduce to action, is the genuine rule of the people.
The American people by a great plurality have conferred upon you the highest honor in their gift.
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