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James R. Sheffield passes along Nevada N. Stranahan’s suggestion to invite Frank Swett Black, former New York Governor, to the White House. Black is interested in being sent to the Republican Convention as delegate-at-large.
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1903-12-05
Nevada N. Stranahan will comply with President Roosevelt’s wishes concerning Michael Donovan.
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1903-12-05
E. L. Beach requests verification from Samuel Allen Otts that 2,000 soldiers collectively marched from Panama to Cauca during last revolution and asks if Otts wants money.
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1903-12-06
John Burroughs is unsure when, if at all, his portrait will be on display at the Cosmos Club. Burroughs compliments President Roosevelt on his “Panama hunt,” meaning American support of the 1903 Panamanian revolution. It is intolerable for Colombia to hold up a “great world enterprise” such as an interoceanic canal across the Isthmus of Panama. Original and typewritten copy.
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1903-12-06
Francis E. Leupp will be at the White House at 9:45 p.m.
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1903-12-06
Charles J. Bonaparte shares his views concerning candidates for Postmaster in Baltimore, Maryland, with President Roosevelt.
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1903-12-06
Charles M. Harvey indicates he will meet with President Roosevelt when he visits Washington, D.C., in January 1904. Harvey offers to print anything Roosevelt would like to say in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat or share information concerning conditions in Missouri. Harvey indicates the information would be unbiased as he belongs “to no faction of the party.”
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1903-12-06
In recognition of St. John’s Day, Dr. Knopf encourages masons and masonic lodges to donate funds for a Masonic Sanatrium being planned in New York.
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1903-12-27
At the direction of President Roosevelt, William Loeb encloses a memorandum on the recess appointment of William Demos Crum as Collector of Customs at Charleston, South Carolina.
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1903-12-07
Rear Admiral Glass orders USS Boston to San Miguel Bay to pick up three officers. The officers will be taken up the Tuira River in boats as far as Yaviza, Panama, where they will make observations as ordered by the Navy Department. After the observations are complete, Boston is to return to port in Panama City, Panama.
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1903-12-07
George Haven Putnam reminds President Roosevelt of his promise to write an introduction to Francis Curtis’s upcoming history of the Republican Party. To avoid endorsing Curtis’s work, Putnam suggests that the introduction review Republican accomplishments under Abraham Lincoln and his associates with a forecast for what policies the party could pursue if retained in power.
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1903-12-07
Oyster Bay’s veteran stage driver, Amos Boerum, asks President Roosevelt for help as he faces winter without enough money to buy coal and other necessities.
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1903-12-07
Nicholas Murray Butler encloses a letter from businessman Leigh Hunt.
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1903-12-07
Political cartoon featuring President Roosevelt and Joseph L. Bristow wielding weapons, with Roosevelt’s knife labeled “Investigation,” against the wolves of post office graft, corrupt corporations, Panama Canal obstructionists, and evil trusts.
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1903-12-03
Rear Admiral Glass orders the USS Concord to accompany the Panamanian gunboat 21st of November to David, Panama. The Concord is to communicate with local officials and assist the two Panamanian representatives in doing the same. After the David visit, Concord is to return to Panama City, Panama, with 21st of November visiting Montijo Bay and Rio Dulce en route.
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1903-12-07
David Starr Jordan sends some of his inscribed books to Roosevelt, including The Voice of the Scholar.
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1903-12-07
At the request of the New York Orthopedic Dispensary and Hospital, M. Dwight Collier encloses the memorial resolutions adopted at their meeting of December 1, 1903. They express their sympathy at the death of James King Gracie, President Roosevelt’s uncle.
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1903-12-07
President Roosevelt does not wish to have a volume of selected addresses published because he believes they already belong to the nation and should not be used for profit. As a compromise, George H. Putnam suggests that, instead of a royalty, copies of the volume be given to whatever committees Roosevelt chooses.
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1903-12-07
Charles Rufus Skinner has been warned that the Roman Catholic Church is working to defeat his re-election as New York State Superintendent, Department of Public Instruction. Skinner hopes that Nicholas Murray Butler can influence Republican party leaders in New York and in Washington, D.C., to support Skinner.
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1903-12-07
Wood describes recent attack by Moros revolutionaries on U.S. troops in Jolo, Philippines, and the status of Moro Rebellion there. He believes the U.S. has “good ground” for ending the Bates Treaty. He also recommends having Roosevelt’s daughter Alice visit at a later date.
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1903-12-07