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Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States, serving from 1901 to 1909. A member of the Republican Party, he was born on October 27, 1858, in New York. Roosevelt was a prominent leader of the Progressive Movement, advocating for domestic policies that included trust-busting, regulation of corporations, and conservation of natural resources. His administration is noted for significant reforms and the establishment of national parks and forests.
In response to the resolution of the Senate of December 19, 1903, requesting the President, 'if not incompatible with the public interests, to transmit to the Senate a list of any claims now pending in the Department of State by British…
I transmit herewith a report by the Secretary of Agriculture of the operations of the Bureau of Animal Industry of that Department for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1903, in compliance with the requirements of section 11 of the act…
Mrs. G. W. Shipman may be appointed a clerk in the Office of the First Assistant Postmaster-General without examination under the Civil-Service rules.
I transmit herewith a report from the Acting Secretary of State covering a statement showing the receipts and disbursements of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company for the month of November, 1903
The Congress has decided the route and there is no alternative under existing legislation.
The guarantee included as a matter of course the building of the canal.
The United States has taken the position that no other government is to build the canal.
We shall expect that these rights be exercised in a spirit befitting the occasion and the wants and circumstances that have arisen.
The United States will look with serious concern and disapproval upon any connection of any European government with the construction or control of any ship canal across the Isthmus of Darien or across Central America.
Mrs. Frank L. Harrigan may be reinstated to the position of ruling machine feeder in the Government Printing Office without regard to the provisions of Rule IX limiting the period of eligibility for reinstatement to one year from the date…
The maintenance of light-houses and other aids to navigation in the Territory of Hawaii is necessary for the safe navigation of the waters thereof by the vessels of the Navy and of the merchant marine of the United States, and for the…
The attention of Congress is invited to the request of the Acting Secretary of State.
This ordinance was approved by the President of the United States on March 21, 1903.
I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State, with companying papers, concerning the claim of Lieut. Col. L. K. Scott, a British subject, on account of the adoption by the Ordnance Department of the United States Army of a…
I transmit herewith a supplemental report by the Secretary of War, submitting additional data regarding land owned by the United States and under control of the War Department, in further compliance with an item contained in the sundry…
The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Highwood Mountains Forest Reserve.
I transmit herewith for the consideration of the Congress a report by the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers, in the claim of the British schooner Lillie.
In view of the importance of this Bureau, I recommend that the appropriation asked for be granted.
To the Senate and House of Representatives: I transmit herewith for the consideration of Congress a report by the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers.
I approve the recommendations made by the Secretary of State, and strongly recommend the matter to the favorable consideration of Congress.
We can not have too much immigration of the right kind, and we should have none at all of the wrong kind.
The United States guarantees and will maintain the independence of the Republic of Panama.
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