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Theodore Roosevelt informs Henry Beach Needham that presently he can not go to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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1912-11-26
Theodore Roosevelt is grateful for Henry Beach Needham’s letter and what Alfred P. Claughton, an Englishman, said about him. Roosevelt would like Needham to bring George Horace Lorimer, editor of the Saturday Evening Post, to Oyster Bay for a visit.
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1912-11-20
President Roosevelt returns Henry Beach Needham’s article. Needham must not quote Roosevelt in any way, as Roosevelt would consider it cheap speaking in that way for publication. Roosevelt also points out phrases Needham attributes to Roosevelt that he has never said. He would rather that Needham not write the article at all.
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1909-02-16
President Roosevelt has read Henry Beach Needham’s play and is pleased to report that he thoroughly enjoyed it.
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1909-01-07
President Roosevelt thanks Henry Beach Needham for the telegram congratulating him on the election results.
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1908-11-04
President Roosevelt explains to Henry Beach Needham, in confidence, that while he has refused to expressly endorse the last Congress, he believes that election of a Democratic Congress would severely hinder William H. Taft’s future work. He has heard that Needham will write an attack on conditions at the Panama Canal, and insists they discuss it beforehand.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-09-11
President Roosevelt assures Henry Beach Needham that everyone gets “thrown down” every now and then, and that he regards Needham’s report on conditions in the Panama Canal construction zone as extremely valuable.
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1908-07-27
President Roosevelt asks Henry Beach Needham if he should answer a question that had been written to him. Regardless, Roosevelt will tell the writer that nothing will be done until after the election.
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1908-07-23
President Roosevelt thanks Henry Beach Needham for the letter, and is glad that he saw his sister, Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, and daughter, Alice Roosevelt Longworth. Roosevelt believes that the value he can give the American people is in showing them that a person can hold the presidency and act as a strong president, and still keep his word and give up power. Roosevelt agrees with Needham about Frank H. Hitchcock, although he wonders if Frank B. Kellogg would also be worth considering if the government can spare him from the lawsuits against Standard Oil.
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1908-06-29
President Roosevelt appoints Henry Beach Needham as a commissioner to investigate conditions in Panama.
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1908-05-02
President Roosevelt will read the article written by Mr. Brandeis, as recommended by Henry Beach Needham.
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1907-01-11
President Roosevelt hopes Henry Beach Needham will not think poorly of him if his first involvement with the People’s Lobby is highlighting the issue discussed by Commissioner of Internal Revenue John Watson Yerkes in the enclosed letter. It appears the Lobby’s informant report is erroneous. Based on Roosevelt’s investigation, the bill in question is proper and was not “sneaked thru.”
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1906-09-25
President Roosevelt finds “a rather grim satisfaction” in seeing Henry Beach Needham’s movement misjudged in the papers, having been in the same position. However, he thinks the movement has “great possibilities for good.”
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1906-09-24
William Loeb encloses President Theodore Roosevelt’s letter to Arizona Chief Justice Edward Kent. Henry Beach Needham can forward the letter to Kent with any further statement he would like to make about himself.
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1906-02-21
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1905-07-19
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Norman Hapgood dictates a brief reply to Henry Beach Needham’s telegram, which had arrived after he already left the office. The issue was that three of the four people who read the article did not think it was sufficiently interesting.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-03-14