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Teddy Roosevelt: “I recommend that a law be passed allowing the Secretary of War, within a fixed period of time, say a year, to reinstate…”

On the recordDecember 13, 1908
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 innocent and whom he finds to have done all in his power to help bring to justice the guilty.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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