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President Roosevelt agrees with Leslie’s Weekly Editor John A. Sleicher about William Jennings Bryan, and believes that he put Bryan on the defensive with a recent letter. Roosevelt is aware of the case involving Philo S. Bennett and thinks Sleicher addressed it well, although Roosevelt says he can not use the information personally.
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1908-09-24
President Roosevelt agrees with all of John A. Sleicher’s letter except the suggestion about stumping, and he has asked Comptroller of Currency Lawrence O. Murray to contact Sleicher regarding the bank deposits. In a postscript, Roosevelt applauds New York Governor Charles Evans Hughes for his opening campaign speech in which he took aim at William Jennings Bryan.
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1908-09-19
President Roosevelt asks John A. Sleicher to please show the four articles by Charles M. Harvey to Chairman of the Republican National Committee Frank H. Hitchcock as potential campaign materials, and says he is glad the situation surrounding the New York Governorship is going well.
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1908-09-14
President Roosevelt tells John A. Sleicher he is reluctant to appear to be a dictator or to force the nomination of Charles Evans Hughes for governor of New York. However, he has done, and will continue to do, all he can to impress upon leaders his “very strong personal judgement” that Hughes should be renominated. Doing otherwise would be a mistake.
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1908-08-29
After deliberation, President Roosevelt shares John A. Sleicher’s opinion regarding renominating Governor Charles Evans Hughes and has told the party leaders. Roosevelt directs Sleicher to write to William H. Taft. He agrees that Taft’s personality needs to be highlighted, but does not believe speeches are the solution.
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1908-08-22
In a private letter, President Roosevelt confides to John A. Sleicher his conflicting opinions about nominating New York governor Charles E. Hughes. He feels that Hughes should be nominated, but is unsure of the public’s opinion on the matter, finding, “it is a bad thing to have to nominate him and a worse thing not to.”
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1908-08-18
President Roosevelt approves of John A. Sleicher’s statement on Jewish matters and says that William H. Taft agrees. Roosevelt discusses public opinion regarding William Jennings Bryan and Charles Evans Hughes in the upcoming election.
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1908-08-12
President Roosevelt thanks John A. Sleicher for the editorials from Leslie’s Weekly he sent. Roosevelt is glad Professor M. M. Kovalevskiĭ published a report about the negotiation of the Portsmouth Peace Treaty, because he never felt at liberty to discuss how he interceded with Sergei Vitte in the matter of Jewish Americans being prohibited from visiting Russia.
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1908-08-08
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Theodore Roosevelt thanks John A. Sleicher for inviting him to the dinner at the Union League Club but he cannot attend.
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1911-11-29
Theodore Roosevelt thanks John A. Sleicher for writing.
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1911-10-27
Theodore Roosevelt tells John A. Sleicher that he had heard of the article and is now glad to see it.
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1911-08-18
Theodore Roosevelt informs John A. Sleicher he is leaving for a six-week trip and instructs him not to send the magazines.
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1911-03-03
President Roosevelt thanks John A. Sleicher, editor of Leslie’s Weekly, for the birthday wishes.
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1908-10-27
President Roosevelt believes that the statement that John A. Sleicher suggested would be better coming from William H. Taft than from himself. However, he has privately been saying it to people who see him, and gives Sleicher permission to print that he has “repeatedly made the statement to callers who came in to see him.” A letter from John Appleton Stewart of the League of Republican Clubs has made Roosevelt think that the tide is turning in favor of Charles Evans Hughes.
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1908-10-14
President Roosevelt is concerned about what James A. Sleicher tells him about the attitude of the Jews, as he had thought they were favorable. Roosevelt believes that it was only the lack of funds that stopped Charles M. Harvey’s articles from being published. He believes that when New York Governor Charles Evans Hughes returns to the state, he will end up ahead.
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1908-10-12
President Roosevelt tells John A. Sleicher that he is not sure he can get the legislation to address the current financial crisis from Congress. He urged for reforms to currency and trust laws in his 1905 and 1906 messages to Congress to no avail.
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1907-11-04