 | 1886 - 1192 էջ
...to the performance of a duty exclusively mine. I consider them in no proper sense as upon the files of the Department, but as deposited there for my convenience,...committee in its report appears to concede that there may he with the President, or in the Departments, papers and documents which, on account of their unofficial... | |
 | Democratic National Committee (U.S.) - 1888 - 676 էջ
...exclusively mine. I consider them in no proper sense as upon the flies of thedepartment.butasdeposlted there for my convenience, remaining still completely...control, I suppose If I desired to take them into in v custody I might do so wltb entire propriety, and If I saw fit to destroy them no one could complain.... | |
 | Grover Cleveland - 1892 - 620 էջ
...duty exclusively mine. I consider them in no proper sense as upon the files of the Department, hut as deposited there for my convenience, remaining still completely under my control. 1 suppose if I desired to take them into my custody I might do so with entire propriety, and if I saw... | |
 | George Frisbie Hoar - 1903 - 584 էջ
...Department were in no sense upon its files, but were deposited there for his convenience. He said: "I suppose if I desired to take them into my custody...I saw fit to destroy them no one could complain." Continuing, the President says that the demands of the Senate '' assume the right to sit in judgment... | |
 | 1905 - 660 էջ
...unofficial and private . . . and having reference to the performance of a duty exclusively mine. ... If I desired to take them into my custody I might...if I saw fit to destroy them no one could complain. The requests and demands which by the score have for nearly three months been presented to the different... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1906 - 994 էջ
...unofficial .and piivate . . . and having reference to the performance of a duty exclusively mine. ... If I desired to take them into my custody I might...if I saw fit to destroy them no one could complain. " The requests and demands which by the score have for nearly three months been presented to the different... | |
 | John Huston Finley, John Franklin Sanderson - 1908 - 372 էջ
...to the performance of a duty exclusively mine. I consider them as in no proper sense upon the files of the department, but as deposited there for my convenience,...if I saw fit to destroy them no one could complain. . . . There is no mysterious power of transmutation in departmental custody, nor is there magic in... | |
 | Paul Samuel Reinsch - 1909 - 880 էջ
...to the performance of a duty exclusively mine. I consider them in no proper sense as upon the files of the Department, but as deposited there for my convenience,...remaining still completely under my control. I suppose 1f I desired to take them into my custody, I might do so with entire propriety, and if I saw fit to... | |
 | Henry Jones Ford - 1919 - 260 էջ
...the sharpest possible way by the declaration: "I consider them in no proper sense as upon the files of the department but as deposited there for my convenience,...if I saw fit to destroy them no one could complain. " Moreover, there were cases in which action was prompted by oral communications which did not go on... | |
 | Allen Johnson - 1919 - 248 էջ
...the sharpest possible way by the declaration: "I consider them in no proper sense as upon the files of the department but as deposited there for my convenience,...if I saw fit to destroy them no one could complain. " Moreover, there were cases in which action was prompted by oral communications which did not go on... | |
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I regard the papers and documents withheld and addressed to me or intended for my use and action purely unofficial and private, not infrequently confidential, and having reference to the performance of a duty exclusively mine. I consider them in no proper... 
