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President Roosevelt will write R. R. Bowker and S. S. McClure about the Government Printing Office matter. If Postmaster General Cortelyou has reasons to distrust William Sidney Rossiter, Roosevelt will not appoint him.
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1905-09-19
President Roosevelt is trying to see if Senator Thomas Collier Platt will endorse William Sidney Rossiter for Public Printer. He knows of R. R. Bowker but asks Postmaster General Cortelyou if Bowker is “kind of a mugwump.”
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1905-09-08
As George B. Cortelyou wished, Benjamin F. Barnes has passed along the contents of the letter from Internal Revenue Service Collector Samuel J. Roberts to President Roosevelt, and now returns the letter.
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1905-08-19
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1905-07-25
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1905-07-24
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1905-07-19
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1905-06-16
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Due to multiple complaints about its classification, President Roosevelt requests George B. Cortelyou investigate the rural free delivery service system this summer.
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1905-02-08
President Roosevelt hopes George B. Cortelyou, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, will appoint West Virginian Charles F. Teter as an assistant. He attests to Teter’s qualifications but leaves the decision to Cortelyou.
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1905-01-28
President Roosevelt sends George B. Cortelyou a letter from Senator Nathan Bay Scott that Cortelyou “will relish.”
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1905-01-19
President Roosevelt asks Republican National Committee Chairman Cortelyou for advice regarding keeping Minister David E. Thompson in Brazil once the United States legation in Brazil becomes an embassy. Roosevelt believes this is better than sending Thompson to Mexico because he understands Thompson has interests in the mines in Mexico.
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1904-12-31
President Roosevelt disregards the attacks on Chairman of the Republican National Committee Cortelyou’s reputation and says they have no basis. He praises Cortelyou for his work on the campaign, noting that Lilly Morris Hinds Cortelyou was the only person who dined with the Roosevelts outside of family on election night. Roosevelt concludes by asking Cortelyou if any remaining funds can go toward Father T. Augustine Dwyer, who wrote a tribute to Roosevelt at the expense of being exiled to Canada by the Catholic Church. The president hopes to soften the blow by giving Dwyer $1,500 to study in Rome.
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1904-11-10
President Roosevelt sends George B. Cortelyou, the Chairman of the Republican National Committee, the text of the concession telegram he received from his Democratic opponent Alton B. Parker, as well as the reply that he sent. Roosevelt congratulates Cortelyou on the outcome of the campaign.
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1904-11-08
President Roosevelt praises and thanks George B. Cortelyou, chairman of the Republican National Committee, for the work he has done during the recent political campaign. He asks Cortelyou to speak with Cornelius Newton Bliss, treasurer of the Republican National Committee, to see if it would be possible for Roosevelt to give a dinner at the White House to honor those who were most active in the campaign.
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1904-11-09
President Roosevelt believes that political attacks by Alton B. Parker on himself and George B. Cortelyou have had an affect. Assistant Attorney General Charles Henry Robb also believes this to be the case, but John A. Sleicher, editor of Leslie’s Weekly, does not. A statement by Senator Philander C. Knox should be circulated widely in the press. Roosevelt includes a letter within the letter to be reviewed by Cortelyou and Secretary of War Elihu Root. He believes that Parker’s attacks should not go unanswered.
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1904-11-02
President Roosevelt has been told that the Standard Oil Company has donated $100,000 to his presidential campaign. Roosevelt says if this is true, the money must be returned in order not to give the appearance of an “improper obligation” to the company. In returning the money, he wishes to assure the company that “there is not the slightest personal feeling against them.”
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1904-10-26
President Roosevelt wishes to return Standard Oil Company’s campaign donation immediately, especially since it appears that the company’s “political attitude” is of great public importance. Additionally, Standard Oil is against the United States Bureau of Corporations, which Roosevelt considers one of his most important accomplishments. Roosevelt does not want any public announcement made about the situation.
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1904-10-27
President Roosevelt asks George B. Cortelyou, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, if his request has been complied with, and emphasizes that he wants it to be carried out without delay.
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1904-10-29
President Roosevelt agrees with the letter from Mr. Rose and discusses the importance of a strong campaign in New York, Indiana, West Virginia, and especially Maryland.
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1904-10-21
Theodore Roosevelt believes that Indiana and New York are the states that need the campaign’s best efforts. Colorado is equally important, because they need “to make sure of some of the smaller states.”
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1904-10-14