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Gifford Pinchot is pleased with the conclusion of the Wallace incident and believes that Secretary Ballinger has been handled effectively.
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1911-01-21
Gifford Pinchot encloses a letter requesting that he dedicate his time to the International Institute of Agriculture. Pinchot declined.
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1911-01-16
Gifford Pinchot sends Theodore Roosevelt the report of Edmond Haggard Madison, the reports of the Democrats, the report of the Ballinger Committee, and a letter from “Uncle Henry” Wallace.
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1910-12-27
Gifford Pinchot thanks Theodore Roosevelt for sending copies of letters from Meyer Lissner and to President Benjamin Ide Wheeler of the University of California. Pinchot concurs with Lissner that Roosevelt did not hurt the election chances of California politicians Hiram Johnson and William Kent. Some press outlets have reported a falling out between Roosevelt and Pinchot, a rumor which Pinchot thinks needs no answer but would be happy to answer with “the utmost vigor” if Roosevelt desires.
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1910-12-02
Gifford Pinchot is delighted with the letter from Hiram Johnson. Pinchot is working on an explanation of the danger in what A. W. Lafferty proposes and will get back to Theodore Roosevelt on the matter next week.
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1910-12-08
Gifford Pinchot sends Theodore Roosevelt a copy of a recent interview and also of a talk he gave in Detroit.
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1910-11-22
Gifford Pinchot writes to commiserate over Republican losses in the New York State elections and express anger at how the press has been treating Theodore Roosevelt. Pinchot credits Roosevelt with “cut[ting] down what would have been a greater Democratic sweep.”
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1910-11-09
If Gifford Pinchot cannot get the names engraved, he will send the bronze lion to Theodore Roosevelt. Though Roosevelt has doubts, Pinchot remains confident in the strength of progressive feeling in the nation but agrees that the Republican Party may be beaten in the New York state elections. Regardless of the outcome, Pinchot feels that Roosevelt can afford to be beaten on progressive issues but “cannot afford not to make the fight.”
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1910-08-18
Gifford Pinchot and Theodore Roosevelt are in agreement that President Taft is beholden to special interests. While he understands Roosevelt’s desire not to run for president again, Pinchot believes Roosevelt should lead the progressive movement. It is not “a question of personal wishes,” Pinchot says, but one of “a marvellous opportunity and a great national need.”
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1910-07-06
Senator Jonathan P. Dolliver is not able to stop and see Theodore Roosevelt due to ill health. He sends his apologies through Gifford Pinchot and, if he is able, will visit at a later date.
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1910-06-29
Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett has written a book on the country life problem in the United States and Gifford Pinchot hopes for Theodore Roosevelt’s endorsement. Pinchot is pleased that Roosevelt might be able to speak at the National Conservation Congress and knows other organizations that would be anxious to hear him speak as well. Pinchot believes that the latest developments in the Pinchot-Ballinger controversy show Attorney General George W. Wickersham and President William H. Taft in a poor light.
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1910-05-18
Gifford Pinchot and Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett wonder whether the death of King Edward VII will make it feasible for Theodore Roosevelt to visit Ireland. Amos Pinchot has written that the controversy surrounding Secretary Richard Achilles Ballinger is looking favorable for them and that Gifford Pinchot should not return yet. Pinchot hopes to have the conservation meeting in either Kansas City or St. Louis, Missouri and urges Roosevelt to make his first speech there.
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1910-05-09
Gifford Pinchot and Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett believe that Theodore Roosevelt should make a speech on the subject of his country life policy, believing it and conservation to be “really the two great parts of the supreme whole.” Pinchot thinks it would be best if Roosevelt could make the speech in the United Kingdom or Ireland.
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1910-04-23
Gifford Pinchot will reach Genoa on the eleventh.
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1910-04-02
Gifford Pinchot writes to Theodore Roosevelt in Africa to provide a recap of current events. An investigation into Secretary of the Interior Richard Achilles Ballinger and the Forest Service will begin shortly. Pinchot believes that special interests control Congress and President William H. Taft’s administration, whose actions are characterized by “a most surprising weakness and indecision.” Taft has abandoned many of Roosevelt’s policies, and Pinchot sees a rift emerging between Taft and the more progressive elements of the Republican party. Pinchot sends his love to Kermit Roosevelt.
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1909-12-31
Chief Forester Pinchot returns the letters from Anna Roosevelt Cowles and John Tilson. Pinchot cannot answer Tilson’s question, but has written to find out. When he has the facts, he will bring them to William Loeb and President Roosevelt.
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1908-01-09
Chief Forester Gifford Pinchot returns to William Loeb a $1 bill that President Roosevelt had tried to send to him. Pinchot asks if he should prepare replies to the letters on “this conservation question” that Loeb sends to him or if that has already been done.
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1907-11-30
Chief Forester Gifford Pinchot provides William Loeb with information about the Lincoln-Roosevelt League in California, which he hears is making progress.
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1907-11-13
Chief Forester Gifford Pinchot expresses confidence in the work of the Waterways Commission. He also tells President Theodore Roosevelt that his friend, Wallace D. Simmons, has a “very remarkable” polo pony which he would like to give to the President’s sons providing that if the time comes that the pony is no longer wanted, it is to be returned to Simmons.
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1907-05-20
Gifford Pinchot, Chief of the U.S. Forest Service, writes to President Roosevelt regarding forest reserves, timber and stone law, and cultivatable land.
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1906-01-26