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President Roosevelt is glad that William Nelson Cromwell sent the letter to Representative Jacob Van Vechten Olcott. He thinks Representative Henry Thomas Rainey is a “scoundrel” who should never have made the charges in the first place or should have fully retracted them by now.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-02-13
President Roosevelt has received a request for information regarding the purchase of the Panama Canal zone, and asks William Nelson Cromwell for any information he can provide on the subject. Roosevelt wonders if there is any way to access the stock books of the Panama Canal Companies. He wants to know whether the information may already be held by the United States government, or if it is held by private entities in the United States or France.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-08
President Roosevelt thanks William Nelson Cromwell for the interest he took in the election of William H. Taft.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-11-04
William H. Taft humbly thanks William Nelson Cromwell for his generous donation to Taft’s election campaign, but cannot accept it. Taft reminds Cromwell that while he has no doubt of Cromwell’s disinterested support, such a large donation would be a liability to the campaign, and would limit the two to only friendly, non-official relations in the future due to the appearance, however unfounded, of impropriety.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-08-06
Ricardo Arias sends William Nelson Cromwell a telegram that he just received from Panamanian President Manuel Amador Guerrero praising and welcoming a visit from a number of Americans, including Secretary of War William H. Taft.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-10-22