Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

He entered the public service as the trusted and intimate companion of Abraham Lincoln, and for well-nigh forty-five years he served his cou...

His death, a crushing sorrow to his friends, is to the people of this country a national bereavement; and it is in addition a serious loss t...

Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, do declare and proclaim that the first of the conditions s...

Done at the request of Secretary Hay, who says she is now the best clerk of her class that he has.