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President Roosevelt is glad that his second cousin, Katherine Roosevelt, is coming out all right, and that William Emlen Roosevelt’s mother made the trip okay and is comfortable. (Katherine Roosevelt had recently broken her leg in an accident while horseback riding)
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1908-05-27
President Roosevelt tells William Emlen Roosevelt that James Alexander Fowler, who Henry K. McHarg mentions in his letter, is the best man for the judicial position, but he is the machine candidate. Howell H. Haynes, on the other hand, is independent and has been recommended by many people.
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1908-04-25
President Roosevelt liked Philip Roosevelt’s poem, but will not say so to him. He agrees with his cousin William Emlen Roosevelt that he likes discussing the futures of the Roosevelt boys. He thinks Ted will likely work under John Campbell Greenway. Roosevelt also tells William that he does not know much more about the legislation in Congress.
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1908-04-16
President Roosevelt returns the duplicate receipt for the $3000 to William Emlen Roosevelt. William Loeb asks him to deposit the money with Douglas Robinson.
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1908-03-11
President Roosevelt sends William Emlen Roosevelt some letters from George W. Goethals for him to read and return. Secretary of State Root is of the opinion that James Alexander Scrymser is impossible to deal with because of the frequent haggling, but Roosevelt thinks that Goethals’s proposals were reasonable.
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1908-02-12
President Roosevelt sends a letter to his cousin, William Emlen Roosevelt. He says that many people believe that the president of William’s company is an “uncommonly difficult person” and constantly changes his mind.
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1908-01-28
Alice Roosevelt Longworth is doing well. President Roosevelt sends his sympathies to William Emlen Roosevelt’s wife, Christine Griffin Kean Roosevelt. Roosevelt agrees with his cousin Emlen regarding speaking out about his decision to not run for a third term. He heard from Edward King, and has asked Secretary of the Treasury George B. Cortelyou about his proposal. The Western banks are complaining that the government gave too much money to the New York banks.
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1907-12-15
President Roosevelt acknowledges that decontextualized parts of his message regarding the financial crisis may have been circulating on Wall Street, but he stands by what he has said and believes his policies should be permanent. Roosevelt also tells William Emlen Roosevelt that J. P. Morgan and George F. Baker were in favor of his financial measures.
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1907-11-23
President Roosevelt emphatically states he is not running again for president, having said as much in numerous contexts. He rails against newspapers, saying it is useless to correct them in their “campaign of constant falsehood.” Regarding financial reform, Roosevelt agrees with William Emlen Roosevelt that no legislation will prevent another Panic of 1907 because it is the result of financial debauchery and dishonesty by those in high places.
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1907-11-09
President Roosevelt agrees with the substance of what William Emlen Roosevelt says, and will go over it on the way to Oyster Bay.
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1907-10-30
President Roosevelt has received William Emlen Roosevelt’s letters, and says the current financial situation gives him concern. The president will be traveling to Oyster Bay, by special train to vote, and hopes that Emlen will be with him.
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1907-10-24
President Roosevelt tells William Emlen Roosevelt that the enclosed memorandum explains itself. Roosevelt offers his congratulations to George Emlen Roosevelt and Harold F. Hadden for their performance at their track meet.
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1907-05-22
President Roosevelt responds to William Emlen Roosevelt and is sorry to hear that Roosevelt will not be able to join him on his travels. Roosevelt tells his cousin that he is interested in the prediction of bad crops, as it is contrary to other predictions he had heard several months prior. Roosevelt predicts that if there is not a good harvest this year then farmers will blame the railroads, and railroads will blame the government. Theodore Roosevelt uses this as justification for why government needs to regulate the railroads to protect industry and agriculture in the United States.
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1907-05-27
President Roosevelt declines to take up the offer from his cousin, William Emlen Roosevelt, to arrange for the President to apply for a grant of land extending from the shoreline of his property.
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1907-04-18
President Roosevelt reminds his cousin Emlen Roosevelt that Fitz Gerald applied to a civil service position and that he must “enter as others enter.” Roosevelt discusses the Edward Henry Harriman matter and believes as long as Harriman and his supporters continue to run things there will always be a “upsetting of Wall Street.”
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1907-04-05
President Roosevelt tells William Emlen Roosevelt that there is a great potential in that “national incorporation scheme.”
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1907-03-29
President Roosevelt updates his cousin William Emlen Roosevelt on Archibald B. Roosevelt’s health. He expresses his concern about the situation going on in the business world. He notes that Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt and Archibald will not be going on the trip down south. He asks William to give him notice when William decides to visit. He expresses relief that William warned Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. about business. He is disappointed that he did not see William’s son, George Emlen Roosevelt, at Harvard, but notes that he did not see much of his son, Theodore, either.
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1907-03-08
William Loeb asks William Emlen Roosevelt to “deliver to [William Worthington] Russell the enclosed note from the President.”
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1907-03-10
President Roosevelt is glad that William Emlen Roosevelt will visit. He approves of William’s plan to stay with the Keans and spend the days at the White House. Archibald B. Roosevelt is improving.
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1907-03-12
President Roosevelt thanks William Emlen Roosevelt for the deed.
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1907-02-12