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Attorney General Bonaparte updates President Roosevelt that he told United States District Attorney N. M. Ruick that Senator William Edgar Borah must be tried immediately. He discusses conditions related to the case. During his travels, he ran into “some hungry reporters whom I tried to fill up with a little chaff.”
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1907-08-10
Caspar Whitney sends President Roosevelt the extracts from George Shiras’s letter to Roosevelt which he proposes to publish in response to William J. Long in the nature fakers controversy. Whitney suggests framing the statement not as coming from a letter to Roosevelt, but merely from someone who has studied animals in the field more carefully than has Long.
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1907-07-22
J. Stewart Barney sends William Loeb a photograph of his progress on the lecturn commissioned for the 300th anniversary of Williamsburg by President Theodore Roosevelt. The lecturn will be presented by Roosevelt to the Bruton Parish Church to hold a Bible presented by King Edward VII of England. Barney asks permission to release the photograph to the press.
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1907-06-18
J. Stewart Barney thanks William Loeb for permission to release a photograph to the press of the lecturn he is creating for President Roosevelt. Barney asks for Roosevelt’s opinion on the work.
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1907-06-21
General Hamilton commends President Roosevelt for his tact with handling San Francisco’s challenges to the Gentlemen’s agreement with Japan. He discusses different forms of combat. He believes that Japanese and Russian soldiers are more prone to fight in hand-to-hand combat, while superior soldiers rely on firearms. Hamilton relays his opinion of Captain Tanaka and Tamemoto Kuroki, and Japanese men more broadly. Hamilton was happy to see the photographs of Roosevelt riding his horse.
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1907-06-11
Ambassador Reid provides President Roosevelt with a variety of pieces of information regarding the status of English politics. Douglas Robinson and Corinne Roosevelt Robinson met with many different members of the royal family. Reid recounts a scandal regarding Prime Minister Campbell-Bannerman, who nine months after his wife died, was engaged to her caretaker. Regardless, Campbell-Bannerman has surprised most in Parliament at his effectiveness as a leader. Reid is disappointed that Robert Bond and the Liberal Party agreed to govern the colony of Newfoundland. The U. S. government is not pleased with this agreement, and many of the other premiers disagree with the Liberal Party’s policy. In particular, Alfred Deakin, the premier of Australia, is an outspoken opponent to this policy. Additionally, many of the colonies want preference in the British markets, and may sacrifice free trade agreements to achieve this status. Next, H. H. Asquith proposed an income tax for Great Britain that will introduce a new, objectionable system of old age pensions. R. B. Haldane proposed a permanent standing army in the British colonies. Augustine Burrill’s proposed Irish Council Bill is becoming unpopular and he does not have many successes as a politician. Overall, the Liberal Party is disappointed by Campbell-Bannerman’s performance.
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1907-05-24
Attorney General Bonaparte is unable to visit President Roosevelt after returning from Boston, but expects to be at the Cabinet meeting tomorrow. He needs to discuss several matters with Roosevelt, including the Idaho situation, an attorneyship in Wyoming, and the conduct of Sullivan.
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1907-04-29
John Revelstoke Rathom asks William Loeb to personally give the enclosed letter to President Roosevelt.
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1907-04-24
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1907-04-24
Reese, Henry F. (Henry Fontaine), 1863-1943
Alice Cunningham Murtaugh thanks Ethan Allen Hitchcock for his kind response to her letter. She would like the United States government to “take action in her case,” and if Hitchcock himself cannot attend to the matter, she would like John Shepley to see to her case. Murtaugh reminds Hitchcock of the time she spent with his daughter Sarah Hitchcock Shepley and fondly remembers the time she spent with her and the rest of Hitchcock’s family.
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1906-12-08
John Revelstoke Rathom informs President Roosevelt of the political corruption in Rhode Island and the misuse of Roosevelt’s name in the campaigns for re-election. Rathom reports that Indiana Senator Beveridge was so pressured to state that he was Roosevelt’s personal spokesman that at the last minute he decided not to visit Rhode Island. Rathom would not bother Roosevelt if he did not view this as a question of honor rather than politics.
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1906-10-22
William L. Ward reports to President Roosevelt that he is at the Republican National Committee headquarters helping Timothy L. Woodruff in preparation for the upcoming House of Representative elections in New York, and he expects a majority to go for Charles Evans Hughes. He asks Roosevelt to make a definite announcement in relation to the appointment of Oscar S. Straus as United States Secretary of Commerce and Labor, to arrange for the Catholic clergy of New York to take action in relation to Hughes, and for Roosevelt to write a letter to a prominent person in New York in relation to Hughes. Ward makes the point that the working class who are for William Randolph Hearst could be swayed to voting for Hughes if they hear that Roosevelt supports Hughes above Hearst. Ward also notes that both James Bronson Reynolds and George B. Cortelyou will be discussing these issues with Roosevelt in Washington.
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1906-10-19
Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte updates William Loeb on Admiral Eustace Barron Rogers’s acceptance to be appointed Paymaster General. He also includes the requested memorandum from Admiral H. T. B. Harris and discusses the findings of the recent Court of Enquiry. Bonaparte also asks for advice regarding the cases of the three naval academy candidates turned down for deafness and that of J. Raynor Wells’s.
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1906-09-08
J. Sloat Fassett asks William Loeb to write a letter to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs about John C. Bostelmann, a lawyer who is “an honest, capable fellow.”
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1906-08-16
J. Sloat Fassett asks William Loeb to share his views, and what he is able to share of President Roosevelt’s views, regarding the political situation in New York States. He hopes that Loeb is “not tied up to the Olean microbe.”
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1906-08-10
Lloyd Carpenter Griscom, Minister to Brazil, sends a telegram to Secretary of State Root discussing affairs in Brazil.
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1906-07-26
Lois Adelaide Bangs sends her and Mary B. Whiton’s thanks to President Roosevelt for his attendance at the National Cathedral School’s commencement. As Bangs and Whiton prepare to leave Washington and end their service as the school’s principals, they wish Roosevelt well and hope that Ethel Roosevelt finds her time at the school beneficial.
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1906-06-15
Responding to an inquiry from George Brunswick, Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte explains that the President is Commander-in-Chief of the navy, as detailed in the United States Constitution. By virtue of that responsibility, he can command the use of ships in a way that “any citizen” does not have the right to do.
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1906-04-13
Charles J. Bonaparte informs President Roosevelt that he has relayed Roosevelt’s instructions regarding the entertainment of the French officers. Bonaparte also discusses his pending report on the convicted midshipmen, some amusing correspondence he has enclosed, and Bonaparte’s dinner on the Mayflower with the Cardinal that a paper referred to with disgust.
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1906-04-13
Ralph Delahaye Paine would like President Roosevelt to read a book, paying special attention to the stories “A Victory Unforseen” (sic) and “Captain Arendt’s Choice.” The second story is based on a true story, the hero being Captain Gerhard C. Apfeld, who saved everyone aboard the American liner Waesland when it sunk quickly after a collision. Paine hopes that Roosevelt will meet with Apfeld, who is a close friend of Paine’s, and he would be happy to get Apfeld to Washington for such a meeting.
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1906-04-23