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Silas McBee tells Theodore Roosevelt he spoke about Roosevelt’s public life, praised his Outlook article, enclosed an advance proof and Senator Lodge’s letter, and noted an item on Sir Horace’s work in Ireland.
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1911-09-12
Silas McBee sends President Roosevelt an editorial from the journal of which he is editor, The Churchman, on Roosevelt’s remarks about railroads. He thanks Roosevelt for introducing him to Secretary of State Elihu Root and writes that the issues facing the United States are not only of economic, social, political, and religious importance, but also international and sectional. McBee has been asked to travel to England for a short speaking tour.
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1907-04-12
Silas McBee agrees to come to dinner and appreciates the opportunity to see Ambassador James Bryce. McBee praises Roosevelt’s address before the Harvard Union, especially his description of state’s rights.
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1907-02-19
Silas McBee shares his thoughts on truthfulness in public life with President Roosevelt, and asks if Roosevelt is aware that W. H. Mallock is preaching for the National Civic Federation.
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1907-02-16
Silas McBee includes a letter from a young Southern lawyer for President Roosevelt. He hopes Roosevelt will appreciate the insight it gives into changes taking place in the American South.
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1904-12-13
Silas McBee sends the text of Judge Speer’s statement which he made to the Grand Jury in Savannah, Georgia. McBee also expresses his enjoyment of his talk with President Roosevelt the previous day.
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1904-12-09
Silas McBee discusses the citizenship and voting rights of African Americans.
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1904-08-27
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1911-11-14
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Silas McBee sends Theodore Roosevelt a copy of his book and hopes he will write something about it.
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1911-11-10
Silas McBee shares with Theodore Roosevelt the special report he requested.
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1911-10-21
Silas McBee encloses a letter from Senator Henry Cabot Lodge and his own reply to him that McBee believes would interest Theodore Roosevelt greatly.
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1911-08-31
Silas McBee sends Theodore Roosevelt an enclosure. He needs help with a matter and would like to meet with Roosevelt before his appointment with President William H. Taft.
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1910-12-29
Silas McBee sends an enclosure he thinks will interest Theodore Roosevelt.
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1910-12-27
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1910-05-31
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1910-04-07
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Silas McBee wishes president Roosevelt a happy New Year and compliments him on his ability to inspire his countrymen to action and to encourage his fellow nations to reject self-aggrandizement. He feels that Secretary of War William H. Taft has done good work and must continue to speak out for the cause without delay.
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1907-12-31
Silas McBee writes to President Roosevelt that the double eagle is a great improvement and he thinks Victor T. Brenner’s article in The New York Tribune covered it fairly. There is promise in the design of the liberty side, but he fails to find it on the eagle side, other than the movement of “E Pluribus Unum” to the edge. He hopes Secretary of War William H. Taft’s campaign will awaken the country’s young men. McBee praises Representative Herbert Parsons for blocking Governor Charles Evans Hughes’s people, but he won’t be satisfied until there is a knock-out.
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1907-12-21
Editor of The Churchman Silas McBee praises President Roosevelt’s message to Congress and encloses two editorials written about it. He is glad that he defended Roosevelt’s religion before seeing the new coin, which he finds to be so poorly designed that the art is “bad enough to almost impair the religious attitude.” McBee finds the creative and sculpture work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens lacking, writing that “bad art in its way is almost as damaging as bad religion.”
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1907-12-06
Silas McBee asks that President Roosevelt look over an article in McBee’s magazine The Churchman discussing a recent controversy over Roosevelt’s order that “In God We Trust” be removed from coinage. McBee acknowledges that there had been negative reactions among the Christian community to this change, but that he had “given a few blows,” and the general consensus was now that Roosevelt’s changes were correct. McBee closes by praising Roosevelt’s “fine greatness.”
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1907-11-19
Silas McBee encloses a letter from the Executive Committee of the Laymen’s Missionary Movement of the United States and Canada. McBee asks President Roosevelt if he would write a reference letter for the Movement that McBee could use in England. The French Ambassador told McBee about the conversation President Roosevelt had with the ambassador about the Peace Congress. The ambassador begged McBee to tell Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau what McBee had told Roosevelt.
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1907-05-11