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President Theodore Roosevelt thinks John A. Sleicher is “right about my meeting those railroad men.” The railroad men need to announce that they accept and will work with the government regulation. They are being cooperative now, but it would have been better had they thought to do this a year ago.
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1907-03-12
President Roosevelt tells John A. Sleicher that he does not think there will be an income tax for some years, but believes that “we must ultimately come to it.” Roosevelt thinks it must be the “unusually illiterate type” who interpret his Harrisburg speech as “socialistic.”
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1906-10-12
John A. Sleicher helped President Roosevelt “in reference to the nomination of Governor” and Roosevelt is is grateful.
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1906-10-09
President Roosevelt thanks John A. Sleicher for the letter and sends his regards to Sleicher’s daughter, Harriet C. Sleicher. He is pleased Sleicher likes his response to Representative James E. Watson. Later he may communicate about the situation in New York state.
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1906-08-24
President Roosevelt tells John A. Sleicher that “Congress has got to get so that it will and can act on the tariff before any action on my part would do more than split the Republican party wide open.” If the executive branch were the only party involved the tariff would be revised immediately. However, Roosevelt cannot act without Congress and he is not sure if a revision on the tariff will be possible before the next presidential election. He reminds Sleicher that he will not consent to being the next Republican candidate, and that the issue will therefore be taken up by his successor.
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1906-08-11
President Roosevelt hopes John A. Sleicher has a pleasant visit with former New York governor Frank Swett Black, and asks him to tell Black that he is pleased with Charles S. Francis’s performance as American Ambassador to Austria.
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1906-07-17
President Roosevelt is sure that after reflection John A. Sleicher will come to the conclusion that William Jennings Bryan can be defeated by politicians other than Roosevelt. He thanks Sleicher for showing him the nice cartoon, and returns it as requested. Roosevelt clarifies to Sleicher that, regarding the matter of meat packers, he never quoted Upton Sinclair, and if the meat packers had been content to allow Congress to pass legislation quietly they would have avoided the negative publicity that has resulted.
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1906-07-12
President Roosevelt tells John A. Sleicher, “that is a first-rate cartoon and much needed.” Roosevelt has been occupied by trying to help the shipping bill.
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1906-04-19
President Roosevelt tells John A. Sleicher that his mind is “irrevocably made up” about not accepting the nomination for a third term as president. He also appreciates that Sleicher said in his letter that the Republican party does not belong to corporations, as it is a “party of the plain people.”
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1906-02-28
President Roosevelt complains about the lies being told about him in papers like the New York Times calling him “undecided and vacillating” regarding the railroad rate bill. He tells John A. Sleicher that the papers lie because “they make their bread and butter by so doing.”
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1906-02-25
Theodore Roosevelt recently saw a political cartoon published in Judge magazine which gives “currency in a pictorial way to a peculiarly base set of slanders.” He asks whether John A. Sleicher, editor of Leslie’s Weekly, is still connected with Judge. While Roosevelt is aware that there are many things that men in public life have to face, and agrees with Sleicher’s last letter, he feels this recent cartoon crosses a line.
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1905-07-21
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1905-07-17
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Sleicher, John A. (John Albert), 1848-1921
2025-07-24
President Roosevelt thanks John A. Sleicher for his letter.
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1904-11-10
President Roosevelt believes that Governor Frank S. Black’s nominating speech was the best he has ever read and would like to use him during the campaign.
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1904-06-27
President Roosevelt wants John A. Sleicher to communicate with Chauncey M. Depew on the Bennett matter. Roosevelt does not know where all of the information in the Sun clippings came from, because he has not thought of or spoken of the matter with anybody recently.
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1904-06-10
William Loeb forwards a letter from President Roosevelt that is to be given to the Methodist Conference.
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1904-04-08
President Roosevelt was amused with the cartoon and wrote to Mr. Gillam about it. Roosevelt invites John A. Sleicher and Gillam to lunch on November 7.
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1903-10-30
President Roosevelt thanks John A. Sleicher for sending the dispatch from the Evening Post which Roosevelt describes as a lie. There is talk that the Post Office scandals are creating a controversy between Roosevelt and the Republican state organizations. Roosevelt states that Henderson Middleton Somerville, who wrote the article in question, was marked for removal from his post as General Appraiser before the article came out.
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1903-10-22
President Roosevelt will take no position regarding which city will hold the national convention and would like to get in tough with the country editors. Roosevelt thanks John A. Sleicher for his editorial and the cartoon.
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1903-09-18
President Roosevelt sent the clippings to Loomis and the State Department has notified representatives in China that the editors in Shanghai cannot be given up for punishment.
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1903-08-26