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President Roosevelt would like to discuss his message when he meets Senator Platt at Anna Roosevelt Cowles’s house on October 22.
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1901-09-30
President Roosevelt sends Senator Platt several documents relating to the appointment of judges to the circuit court in Chicago. Roosevelt also sends documents related to the accusations against Judge Christian C. Kohlsaat, whom Roosevelt has recommended for promotion.
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1905-03-18
President Roosevelt did not realize how interested Senator Platt was in the career of Aaron Homer Byington, United States Consul in Naples when he acted to assign Senator Matthew Stanley Quay’s brother to that post. Roosevelt offers to assign Byington to a choice of other Mediterranean posts. In a postscript, Roosevelt asks Platt to “let up on that delegate bill,” allowing Alaska a delegate.
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1905-02-28
President Roosevelt informs Senator Platt that he has instructed Secretary of State John Hay to “endeavor to procure” an amendment to Article 2 of the Bering Sea Tribunal of Arbitration, per the request of several senators. Roosevelt goes on to point out that the original text of the treaty was approved in advance by the members of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations prior to to negotiation, and that a joint resolution by the House and Senate requested Roosevelt to negotiate and conclude the treaty governing the hunting of fur seals with Great Britain.
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1905-02-23
President Roosevelt thanks Senator Platt for Henry W. Farnam’s letter and is certain Platt has seen his letter to Secretary of the Interior Ethan Allen Hitchcock on the matter. Now, however, it is up to Congress to craft legislation on the matter now, which Roosevelt will follow.
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1905-02-10
President Roosevelt forwards Senator Platt a letter from George Haven Putnam. Roosevelt takes a deep interest in the referenced topic, and asks what the bill’s status is and if he can help ensure its passage.
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1905-01-21
President Roosevelt asks Senator Platt if the Philippine tariff can be reduced to fifty percent during the current session of Congress.
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1904-12-21
President Roosevelt asks Senator Platt to thank Platt’s friend for the grouse.
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1904-12-13
President Roosevelt read Senator Platt’s letter with great interest, but disagreed on two points. First, he believes there is strong support for an amendment of the tariff laws. Second, the president thinks it is important to undertake some action on the tariff, and that it should be done during a special session of Congress. Although he sees the dangers of trying to do something, Roosevelt argues it is better than doing nothing. The president also encloses a copy of a letter from Charles A. Schieren, former mayor of Brooklyn.
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1904-11-22
President Roosevelt asks Senator Platt to write him a letter favoring Francis E. Leupp for Indian Commissioner William A. Jones’s place.
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1904-11-19
President Roosevelt hopes that Connecticut Senator Platt is correct, and comments that he is not sure what the effect of Democratic presidential candidate Alton B. Parker’s “infamous campaign of personal slander which he has recently inaugurated” will be.
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1904-11-03
President Roosevelt appreciates Senator Platt’s letter and speech, and would not change anything about them. He also asks that Platt visit him the next time he is in New York.
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1904-09-14
President Roosevelt is glad that Senator Platt enjoyed the Adirondacks. Roosevelt hopes that Platt can come visit him if it is not too much of a bother, but Roosevelt does not think that he can give Platt anything for his speech.
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1904-09-05
President Roosevelt wonders if Senator Platt can get to Oyster Bay for a meeting.
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1904-08-01
President Roosevelt thanks Senator Platt for his letter and praises his hard work for making “my administration a success.”
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1904-06-29
President Roosevelt asks Senator Platt to publicly support him in the press. Roosevelt is dismayed by the opinion that he wants to run his own campaign, and defends his decision to appoint George B. Cortelyou as chairman of the Republican National Committee.
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1904-05-25
Secretary of War William H. Taft had told President Roosevelt about how Senator Platt had spoken about Roosevelt, and Roosevelt thanks Platt for all the help and strength that he has given him in the past three years.
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1904-11-09
The publication from the New Hampshire man was a printed circular.
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1904-01-28
President Roosevelt will admire the pheasants’ plumage and enjoy eating them. He would like to write to Senator Platt’s friend and thank him.
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1903-12-12
President Roosevelt thanks Senator Platt for the kind statement.
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1903-12-09