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President Roosevelt would be pleased by Nicholas Murray Butler’s plan to have Roosevelt nominated as a senator after his term as president is over, but worries it would cause opposition to the ticket from both Thomas Collier Platt and Benjamin B. Odell.
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1906-05-31
President Roosevelt confirms receipt of a letter from Nicholas Murray Butler, and comments that “Mrs. Roosevelt and I are as much pleased with that picture as you are.”
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1906-05-19
President Roosevelt asks Nicholas Murray Butler to return a book to Brander Matthews, which he though was very interesting. He additionally comments on the status of a bill.
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1906-05-21
President Roosevelt comments that the letter he received from University of California professor Elmer Ellsworth Brown was “awfully nice,” and that Brown seems to be everything that Columbia University President Nicholas Murray Butler described him as being.
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1906-05-22
President Roosevelt will not speak to anyone about the matter involving the retirement of Commissioner of Education William Torrey Harris that Columbia University President Butler wrote to him about. In the meantime, he will commit to Professor Elmer Ellsworth Brown as a candidate to replace Harris, unless Butler thinks that Maurice Francis Egan, another potential candidate, would be better.
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1906-05-11
President Roosevelt received Nicholas Murray Butler’s recent letter, and is pleased at the choice of Arthur Twining Hadley, remarking that “no better man than Hadley could have been chosen.” He looks forward to seeing Butler soon.
(Hadley had recently been approved to serve as Roosevelt professor of American history at the University of Berlin for the 1907-1908 academic year)
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1906-04-26
President Roosevelt confirms that Nicholas Murray Butler and his daughter will visit on May 4 and stay until Sunday.
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1906-03-09
President Roosevelt does not believe that his wife Edith will be at the White House at all during the Easter holidays. He asks if Nicholas Murray Butler and his daughter can visit on April 21.
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1906-03-01
President Roosevelt is disappointed at what Nicholas Murray Butler wrote him. He asks him to name a few dates when it would be possible for him to bring his daughter to visit the White House.
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1906-03-05
President Roosevelt tells Nicholas Murray Butler that he spoke with Monaghan, who only asked that he and an old friend, Miss Haley, be allowed to appear before a Congressional committee. Monaghan would not interfere either for or against the bill in question.
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1906-02-25
President Roosevelt informs Nicholas Murray Butler that Representative Joseph A. Goulden is “much exercised” over the Washington, D. C. educational system, including in “the colored schools.” Roosevelt asks Butler for advice on the matter.
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1906-02-14
President Roosevelt discusses who he intends to appoint to a position. He is particularly dissatisfied with Andrew Dickson White’s suggestions.
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1906-02-06
President Roosevelt tells Nicholas Murray Butler that New Jersey governor Edward C. Stokes is coming to lunch today. As far as Roosevelt is aware, Mark M. Fagan and George L. Record have not said anything against Stokes.
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1906-01-27
President Roosevelt asks Nicholas Murray Butler to send the enclosed letter if it is all right.
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1906-01-28
President Roosevelt asks Nicholas Murray Butler to write a letter introducing him to the Assyrian scholar Friedrich Delitzsch.
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1906-01-22
President Roosevelt informs Columbia University President Nicholas Murray Butler that Jacob H. Schiff’s speech has “fallen absolutely flat;” that no Senator or Congressman has been influenced; and “the great majority of the business men” who write him have warned him not to pay attention to it. Roosevelt does not believe that anything can be done about currency legislation during this session of Congress, but he wants to make “a resolute effort” next session.
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1906-01-10
President Roosevelt clarifies for Nicholas Murray Butler what he meant when he wrote him regarding Jacob H. Schiff’s recent speech about the currency question. Schiff was correct about the danger, but he did more harm than good with his speech by criticizing the remedy suggested by Treasury Secretary Leslie M. Shaw, making it harder for any action to be taken.
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1906-01-12
President Roosevelt confirms that Columbia University President Butler will stay with him on the night of the fifth. He says he has written requesting testimony about Charles P. McClelland and has received part of it already.
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1905-12-03
President Roosevelt asks if Columbia University President Butler can bring his daughter Sarah Schuyler Butler to stay the night at the New Willard on December 4, and at the White House on December 5, when they entertain the Speyers and Burgesses.
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1905-11-24
President Roosevelt outlines for Nicholas Murray Butler an amended plan suggested by Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt for when Butler visits with the Speyers and the Burgesses. The Roosevelts suggest dinner followed by a musical.
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1905-11-17