Presidential Office Staff

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901

Creator(s)

Presidential Office Staff

Language

English

Period

(1901, September-1905, February) U.S. President – 1st Term

Philippe Bunau-Varilla urges President Roosevelt to meet again with Panama Canal Commission Chairman Theodore P. Shonts before his departure, in order to secure influence with the engineers of the canal to implement the ideas Roosevelt and Bunau-Varilla have discussed.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-09-24

Creator(s)

Presidential Office Staff

A memorandum for William Loeb states that Joseph Gaston Baillie Bulloch telephoned to inform President Roosevelt that his son Archibald Irvine Devoe Bulloch had passed away on September 12, 1907.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-12

Creator(s)

Presidential Office Staff

This memorandum states that President Roosevelt desires to send the next volume of his speeches to John St. Loe Strachey in England. The volume will be marked where Roosevelt mentions socialism.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-11

Creator(s)

Presidential Office Staff

Rudolph Forster is reminded that President Roosevelt is to write former President Grover Cleveland for his birthday, March 18.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-03-16

Creator(s)

Presidential Office Staff

Francis E. Leupp has phoned to say President Roosevelt spoke to Secretary of the Interior James Rudolph Garfield. He reports that W. Scott Smith told him that he would like to be made Superintendent of the Hot Springs Reservation in Arkansas. Leupp would like to know Roosevelt’s wishes in the matter.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-02-07

Creator(s)

Presidential Office Staff

Six names are suggested for the new judgeship in the Southern District of Ohio. Two of the men named have withdrawn as candidates.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-02-04

Creator(s)

Presidential Office Staff

Senator Dillingham of Vermont knows of no one who opposes the confirmation of Oscar R. Hundley except Senator Edmund Pettus of Alabama, whom Dillingham believes holds a personal grudge against Hundley.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-24

Creator(s)

Presidential Office Staff

The nomination of Oscar Hundley to the United States District Court of the Northern District of Alabama is now in the hands of a sub-committee. There is some opposition to the confirmation of Hundley because of his advocacy for an amendment to the Constitution “providing that moneys collected by white taxpayers should be used in the education of white children only, and that moneys collected from the colored people should be used for the colored schools.” This would have resulted in “colored children” being thrown out of school, as “the amount of taxes collected from colored people is very small.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-24

Creator(s)

Presidential Office Staff

Senator Albert J. Beveridge requests the number of African Americans President Roosevelt has appointed during his presidency, as well as a short account of the three or four “bitter fights that have been made against him on account of some of these appointments.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-20

Creator(s)

Presidential Office Staff

“Papers returned to Mr. Forster as requested.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-03-26

Creator(s)

Presidential Office Staff

A letter from Henry S. Brown to William Loeb was forwarded to the Acting Secretary of War with instructions to further send it to Secretary of War William H. Taft. The letter discussed lawyer and lobbyist William Nelson Cromwell, and included an endorsement of President Roosevelt instructing Taft to minimize Cromwell’s connections with Panama. Cromwell’s lobbying efforts were instrumental to getting the Panama Canal constructed.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-07-01

Creator(s)

Presidential Office Staff

This note indicates that Ambrose Agius, Apostolic Delegate of the Philippines, is to see Secretary of War William H. Taft when he arrives and has asked when would work for him to see President Roosevelt before his departure.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-12-12

Creator(s)

Presidential Office Staff

Harold Baer says that his uncle George F. Baer, president of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, is one of the largest contributors to the campaign fund of Alton B. Parker. Due to George Baer’s reputation, this can be printed to good effect.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-11-03

Creator(s)

Presidential Office Staff

The White House has received a telephone message that Japanese Ambassador Kogoro Takahira is expected to recover from his illness, but will likely be unable to perform his duties for some time.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-10-31

Creator(s)

Presidential Office Staff

Seating chart for a lunch held on December 4, 1901.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-12-04

Creator(s)

Presidential Office Staff

Commissioner General of Immigration Sargent informs Secretary of the Treasury Shaw that he has brought charges against Chinese Inspector Ralph Izard and is seeking his dismissal from service for the Bureau of Immigration.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-01-12

Creator(s)

Presidential Office Staff

S. Claude Burr claims that he can find copies of newspapers with President Roosevelt’s reply during the Morès duel incident. He would like to publish Frederick Herrig’s account of the same.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-02-20

Creator(s)

Presidential Office Staff

Senators Charles Henry Dietrich and Joseph Hopkins Millard would like to speak with President Roosevelt before any promises are made to Representative David H. Mercer.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-02-23

Creator(s)

Presidential Office Staff

Charles S. Wood calls attention to the neglected condition of a cemetery in Liberty County, Georgia, where President Roosevelt’s grandfathers are buried.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-02-12

Creator(s)

Presidential Office Staff