Teddy Roosevelt: “I ordered the discharge of nearly all the members of Companies B, C, and D of the Twenty-fifth Infantry by name, in the…”

“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 constitutional power and in pursuance of what, after full consideration, I found to be my constitutional duty as Commander in Chief of the United States Army.”