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President Roosevelt agrees with Richard Wilson Knott, but after considering it carefully he is certain he can not go on the stump. Roosevelt will share Knott’s comments regarding William Jennings Bryan’s statement with the Republican National Committee.
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1908-10-02
President Roosevelt finds “more doctrine” in Richard Wilson Knott’s the Evening Post than in other papers. He will review Knott’s proposal with Secretary of the Treasury George B. Cortelyou.
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1907-08-23
President Roosevelt thanks Richard Wilson Knott for authoring such “an awfully nice editorial.”
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1906-12-10
Attorney General Moody responds to Richard Wilson Knott regarding jurisdictions involved when investigating election fraud. Knott had written to President Roosevelt and Moody is responding at Roosevelt’s request.
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1904-12-01
Theodore Roosevelt thinks Richard Wilson Knott has a fine idea and will try to get it on the platform.
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1912-05-31
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Richard Wilson Knott for the letter and editorial. He asks which “Mr. Parsons” advocates for the “1st-alone policy?” This policy permitted the growth of a power greater than law and must be dissolved. Roosevelt understands the dangers of falling into a tyrannical bureaucracy when ridding an irresponsible autocracy. He does not understand Knott’s allusion to his endorsement of Elbert H. Gary’s proposition that the government fix steel prices.
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1911-08-08
Theodore Roosevelt promises that anything Richard Wilson Knott writes will have his deep consideration, but states that he does not believe that the Sherman antitrust law is the way to address the present trouble. He does not want to repeal the law, but does not think it allows addressing the root of the problem of industrial trusts.
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1911-06-06
Theodore Roosevelt thinks Richard Wilson Knott’s editorial was admirable and that the decision was the only way for the law to work, but a different method must be used to effectively deal with the big corporations.
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1911-05-19
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary invites Richard Wilson Knott to come to Sagamore Hill for lunch next Wednesday or at The Outlook office next Friday at noon. Roosevelt looks forward to meeting Knott on either occasion.
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1911-04-24
Theodore Roosevelt gives Richard Wilson Knott permission to use his letter to Simeon E. Baldwin however he likes. He also praises an editorial Knott shares with him. Roosevelt would like to visit Kentucky, but cannot do so at present. He asks if Knott can come to Oyster Bay when he returns from his trip out west.
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1911-02-07
President Roosevelt thinks that it would carry more weight if Richard Wilson Knott wrote to president-elect William H. Taft directly. He gives Knott permission to refer to him in the letter. Knott should say that Roosevelt will vouch for him “in every way,” and urge the adoption of the policies Knott recommended regarding federal appointments in Louisville, Kentucky.
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1908-11-18
President Roosevelt tells Richard Wilson Knott that he will discuss Knott’s suggestions with Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou. They have had difficulty dispersing money into country banks, since much of it simply makes its way back to New York, as everything is centered there. Roosevelt is happy to hear about the results in Kentucky.
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1907-11-07
President Roosevelt thanks Richard W. Knott for the editorial, and says that he believes it is essential that there be “temperate criticism when they go flagrantly wrong.” In order to avoid the injustice that is present in political platforms of people like William Randolph Hearst or Eugene V. Debs, it is important to act on the just portion that is also present.
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1906-04-27
President Roosevelt wants to see a Republican victory, not necessarily a Roosevelt victory. Roosevelt suggests that Richard Wilson Knott editorially release this information, but make sure not to quote directly. Roosevelt hopes for the success of Colonel Morris Burke Belknap in Kentucky.
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1903-09-15
President Roosevelt thanks Richard Wilson Knott for the letter and the information.
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1903-07-28
President Roosevelt encloses a private letter and requests Richard Wilson Knott’s opinion.
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1903-07-20
President Roosevelt is already pledged to General Buckner’s son which “bars any other Kentucky man.”
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1902-12-23
President Roosevelt is pleased to hear of the unification of the Republican Party in Kentucky and has appointed Combs and Collier as suggested by Richard Wilson Knott.
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1902-11-06
President Roosevelt was pleased with Richard Wilson Knott’s editorial on Roosevelt’s Memorial Day speech and was surprised that his comments on lynching were taken as an attack on the south.
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1902-06-18
President Roosevelt thanks Richard Wilson Knott for the letter and will take up the matter with John Watson Yerkes.
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1901-10-31