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President Roosevelt agrees with Senator Platt about the Government Printing Office, and says he will take up the matter at once.
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1908-06-13
President Roosevelt thanks Senator Platt for his action regarding the bill providing for a vice admiral of the Navy.
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1908-05-22
President Roosevelt asks Senator Platt if there is any chance for Robley D. Evans to be made vice admiral, and suggests it may be possible to pass a bill in order to accomplish this.
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1908-05-17
President Roosevelt regrets to inform Senator Platt that District Attorney George B. Curtiss will not be reappointed due to his conduct while in office on recommendation of the New York Attorney General William S. Jackson.
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1908-04-14
President Roosevelt agrees with Senator Platt in regretting Judge Wallace’s retirement. However, Roosevelt believes that Henry G. Ward will be an excellent replacement.
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1907-05-22
President Roosevelt cannot appoint to the diplomatic and consular service the person suggested by Senator Platt. He believes that New York is already over-represented among consuls and legation secretaries.
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1907-04-16
President Roosevelt tells Senator Platt that he does not believe such a commission needs to be created. When Roosevelt next sees Platt or his son Frank H. Platt he will explain why the State department would not appoint the two men put forward to head such a commission
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1907-04-01
President Roosevelt does not believe it is possible to add Senator Henry W. Hill to the commission. He tells Senator Platt that he admires Hill and would fulfill Platt’s request if was in his power to do so.
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1907-03-30
President Roosevelt informs Senator Platt that Regis H. Post, acting Secretary of State in Puerto Rico, will be elevated to Governor of that island.
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1907-03-05
President Roosevelt complies with New York Senator Platt’s request to renominate Assistant Treasurer Hamilton Fish II for his current position. Roosevelt also extends sympathy to Platt’s son, Frank H. Platt, who is mourning the death of his daughter, Ellen Barstow Platt.
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1907-02-19
President Roosevelt informs Senator Platt that he is unable to promise an appointment to Brigadier General to Colonel Goffin without hearing Secretary of War William H. Taft’s opinion.
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1907-02-04
President Roosevelt has enclosed a letter from Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw for Senator Platt and feels he cannot intervene in the matter in light of what Shaw has said.
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1907-01-29
William Loeb informs Senator Platt that the reception list is closed. However, he will invite Thaddeus W. Jones and his wife, Mary Jones, to the reception on January 31.
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1906-12-27
President Roosevelt tells Senator Platt that he does not know anything about the matter from his previous letter, and he will have Secretary of War William H. Taft look into it. Roosevelt says people have been talking about the judge in the Eastern District, and he has declined to speak on the matter. He hopes Platt will do the same. They can talk the matter over when Platt meets with Roosevelt.
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1906-11-08
President Roosevelt wishes to appoint Alford Warriner Cooley as Assistant Attorney General at once.
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1906-11-07
President Roosevelt hears highly of Lyman Metcalfe Bass and tells Senator Platt he will gladly send his letter of nomination for United States Attorney for the Western District of New York after the election.
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1906-10-13
President Roosevelt tells Senator Platt of his intentions to appoint Assistant Attorney General Charles Henry Robb for district judge.
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1906-10-02
President Roosevelt received Senator Platt’s letter on behalf of Allen. He plans to promote a judge from the District bench to fill Charles Holland Duell’s place and then appoint a District of Columbia man to the created vacancy. However, before acting, Roosevelt wishes to review the matter with Platt.
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1906-09-07
President Roosevelt has heard good things about Colonel Patton, but is not yet prepared to say who is the best man for the position. He tells Senator Platt that he will take the issue up with Secretary of War William H. Taft in the fall.
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1906-08-17