ROOSEVELT, Theodore. Autograph letter signed ("T. Roosevelt") as President, to Postmaster General George von L. Meyer (1858-1918), Washington, 25 February 1909. 1½ pages, 8vo (7 7/8 x 4 11/16 in.), White House stationery, neatly reattached along center fold so that the two pages are side-by-side. Fine condition. RECOMMENDING REMOVAL OF A POST OFFICE INSPECTOR In the last days of his term as President, Roosevelt makes a recommendation in a case of false accusations made against a postmaster. While he awaited the succession of William Taft, whom he had groomed for the post, Roosevelt characteristically refused to be a lame-duck President: "'I am ending my career as President with just the same stiff fighting that has marked it ever since I took the office,' he told Arthur Lee 'But I am having a thoroughly good time'." (N. Miller, Theodore Roosevelt: A Life , pp. 492-493). Here, one week before Taft's inauguration, the busy President writes to the Postmaster General concerning a Post Office departmental matter: "In this case of postmaster White, why should we not take action against the inspector who, as it now appears falsely, recommended White for removal for dishonesty? It is action rendered unjust & undesirable either to White or Henneguest."
ROOSEVELT, Theodore. Autograph letter signed ("T. Roosevelt") as President, to Postmaster General George von L. Meyer (1858-1918), Washington, 25 February 1909. 1½ pages, 8vo (7 7/8 x 4 11/16 in.), White House stationery, neatly reattached along center fold so that the two pages are side-by-side. Fine condition. RECOMMENDING REMOVAL OF A POST OFFICE INSPECTOR In the last days of his term as President, Roosevelt makes a recommendation in a case of false accusations made against a postmaster. While he awaited the succession of William Taft, whom he had groomed for the post, Roosevelt characteristically refused to be a lame-duck President: "'I am ending my career as President with just the same stiff fighting that has marked it ever since I took the office,' he told Arthur Lee 'But I am having a thoroughly good time'." (N. Miller, Theodore Roosevelt: A Life , pp. 492-493). Here, one week before Taft's inauguration, the busy President writes to the Postmaster General concerning a Post Office departmental matter: "In this case of postmaster White, why should we not take action against the inspector who, as it now appears falsely, recommended White for removal for dishonesty? It is action rendered unjust & undesirable either to White or Henneguest."
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