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President Roosevelt thanks Vice President Fairbanks. Roosevelt’s son Archibald B. Roosevelt is feeling better.
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1907-02-08
President Roosevelt thanks Vice President Fairbanks for the congratulatory telegram and asks about a date for dinner.
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1906-11-07
President Roosevelt thanks Vice President Fairbanks for the birthday wishes. Roosevelt hears much of Fairbanks’s campaign work and sends his regards to Fairbanks’s wife, Cornelia Cole Fairbanks.
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1906-10-28
President Roosevelt urges Vice President Fairbanks to accept the requests of the Hamilton Club and the Cook County Court House for the benefit of the Republican Party. Roosevelt believes that a prominent leader of the Republican Party should make a speech to win support in Illinois and the surrounding area.
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1906-09-04
President Roosevelt thanks Vice President Fairbanks for his telegram. He sends his love to Cornelia Fairbanks.
The Russian and Japanese delegations to the Portsmouth Peace Conference had recently concluded negotiations, bringing the Russo-Japanese War to an end and prompting many people around the world to congratulate Theodore Roosevelt on his successful mediation. The official treaty would be signed several days later, on September 5, 1905.
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1905-08-31
President Roosevelt congratulates Vice President Fairbanks on his recent success at Ogdensburg, New York. He asks that Fairbanks inform him when he will be returning, and invites him to spend the night or have lunch with him at Sagamore Hill.
Vice President Fairbanks recently spoke to an assembled crowd of veterans at the unveiling of a monument commemorating the soldiers of Oswegatichie who fought and died in the Civil War.
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1905-08-28
President Roosevelt is glad that Vice President Fairbanks was not injured by “the attack made upon you by that lunatic yesterday.” Roosevelt congratulates Fairbanks on his “excellent speech at Portland” and hopes Fairbanks will again represent the administration at an important Grand Army of the Republic occasion in New York in the middle of August.
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1905-06-08
President Roosevelt accepts Senator Fairbanks’s resignation ahead of his inauguration as vice-president in two days.
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1905-03-02
President Roosevelt is delighted Senator Fairbanks is going to take up the matter of the Canadian reciprocity treaty and encourages him to do it as soon as possible.
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1904-11-24
President Roosevelt asks Senator and Vice President-elect Fairbanks if he can make an effort to negotiate a reciprocity treaty with Canada. The president does not believe it is possible but wants to put forth the effort.
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1904-11-12
President Roosevelt informs Vice President-elect Fairbanks of his plans to attend the St. Louis Fair with Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt and invites Fairbanks and his wife, Cornelia Cole Fairbanks, to attend with them.
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1904-11-11
President Roosevelt congratulates Vice President-elect Charles W. Fairbanks and thanks him for the positive result in Indiana.
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1904-11-09
President Roosevelt received a letter from Thomas E. Boyd which, along with others, makes him feel “uncomfortable as to the situation in Indiana.”
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1904-10-25
President Roosevelt compliments Charles W. Fairbanks on the effect that he is producing on the campaign trail, but asks him not to neglect Indiana, Fairbanks’s home state. West Virginia and New York are questionable, making Indiana even more important.
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1904-10-10
President Roosevelt asks Senator Fairbanks if anything needs to be done with the War Department estimates.
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1904-09-20
President Roosevelt has reviewed Senator Fairbanks’ speech and recommends that he take out the allusion to diminished revenues. He also suggests that Fairbanks point out that the Philippines “pay their own way.”
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1904-09-08
President Roosevelt is glad to hear what Senator Fairbanks has to say about Kansas. Roosevelt feels optimistic about the campaign in Vermont, Arkansas, and Missouri, but he thinks they have only a poor chance in Maryland.
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1904-09-07
President Roosevelt expresses concern for the governorship of New York since Elihu Root will not accept the position. Roosevelt asks Senator Fairbanks to expand on his Canadian reciprocity statement to include that an agreement has not yet been reached. Roosevelt also requests feedback from Fairbanks on the rough draft of a letter that he also sent to Senators John C. Spooner and William B. Allison.
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1904-08-26
President Roosevelt informs Senator Fairbanks that things look favorable in New York. Roosevelt hopes Elihu Root will run for governor, but he doubts that will happen.
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1904-08-24
President Roosevelt asks his running mate for vice president, Charles W. Fairbanks, to look after the Methodists in New York as well as he has been looking after them in Indiana. Roosevelt suggests that Fairbanks speak to George B. Cortelyou, chairman of the Republican National Committee, about how best to rally the Methodist bishops, clergymen, and laymen, whom he hopes will vote unanimously for them as they did for former President William McKinley. Roosevelt also tells Fairbanks that the zealous Rev. Dr. Smythe will call on him.
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1904-08-13