Steffens, Lincoln, 1866-1936

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1908-06-12

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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Lincoln Steffens

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1908-06-05

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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Lincoln Steffens

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1911

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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Lincoln Steffens

President Roosevelt is unsure of how to use the material Lincoln Steffens sent in his addresses. Roosevelt has tried to incorporate some of it into a message he sent to Congress and in his Lincoln Day address, but the rest of the material “does not fit in.” He wishes Steffens would make the address himself.

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1909-01-28

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Lincoln Steffens

President Roosevelt tells Lincoln Steffens that he has forwarded his letter to William H. Taft, as that seemed to be the best way to get at the matter. Roosevelt is having a lunch guest tomorrow.

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1908-12-22

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Lincoln Steffens

President Roosevelt invites Lincoln Steffens to come see him at Oyster Bay. Roosevelt thinks that if Steffens’ theory is correct, the government would have to own the saloons, refuse to collect customs duties, while owning every possible corporation and industry where there would be the chance of bribery. Steffens is somewhat wrong regarding Europe, as not every government owns the saloons, and many of them have subsidies for industries. Roosevelt agrees with Steffens in the necessity of fighting against privilege, but thinks that Steffens is attacking a symptom instead of the cause.

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1908-06-12

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Lincoln Steffens

President Roosevelt encloses copies of correspondence to explain his actions in removing Colonel William F. Stewart from the Coastal Artillery Corps and not renominating William C. Bristol for Attorney General in Oregon. Colonel Steward was a “singularly bad officer” who should not be promoted to Brigadier General. Bristol became “intolerable,” and Roosevelt had serious doubts he was even going to try the land fraud cases at all.

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1907-12-10

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Lincoln Steffens

President Roosevelt sends the text of a card, approved by him, instructing officers and employees of the government to “tell Mr. Lincoln Steffens anything whatever about the running of the government by or under officers of the Executive.” Roosevelt has since come to believe that the responses may include stories about United States Senators or Representatives, which was not his intent and is outside his authority to address. Roosevelt asks Steffens to show him “anything reflecting upon Senators or Congressmen” before Steffens publishes the findings.

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1907-03-12

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Lincoln Steffens

President Roosevelt has no intention to remove Joseph H. Kibbey as Governor of the Arizona territory, despite the efforts of Senator Albert J. Beveridge and his supporters. While Roosevelt is disappointed that some public officials make accusations that cannot be backed up by facts, he will protect anyone making serious accusations as long as there is sufficient evidence to support those accusations. The next time he sees Lincon Steffens he would like to review what Steffens has found out about Government officials in the West before anything is made public.

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1907-02-26

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Lincoln Steffens

President Roosevelt has read most of the articles in Lincoln Steffens’s book, but not the dedication. He will read it carefully, and then tell Steffens what he thinks about it.

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1906-06-27

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Lincoln Steffens

President Roosevelt takes issue with some criticisms that Lincoln Steffens has made of his efforts to get Congress to ratify the Santo Domingo treaty. He points out that several Democrats are opposing the treaty merely to be obstructionist, rather than because of an honest difference of opinion. In contrast, Roosevelt believes that there is more room for honest differences in opinion in the railroad rate bill. Steffens’s idea that Roosevelt should refuse to make any concessions and to let the voters decide who is correct in the next election is flawed. Roosevelt cites evidence of voters supporting men who are on two sides of the same issue.

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1906-02-05

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Lincoln Steffens

In his message, President Roosevelt has “embodied practically” what Lincoln Steffens said. He is interested in what Steffens says about a few individuals, and asks him to find out if S. S. McClure has “sounded” R. R. Bowker yet.

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1905-10-07

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Lincoln Steffens

President Roosevelt responds to Lincoln Steffens message saying that he should return the money that insurance companies and other corporations gave to the Republican funds which were seeking national legislation. He advises Steffens of the impossibility and impracticality of this, and assures him that, while he believes Congress should make an act regarding the funding of campaigns, there was nothing improper about his campaign’s use of funds. Roosevelt himself did not know many of the entities who gave to his campaign, and outside of three signed photographs, he did not give favors to any of those whom he did know.

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1905-09-25

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Lincoln Steffens

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1905-06-24

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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Lincoln Steffens

President Roosevelt would like Charles J. Bonaparte to write the article about him.

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1904-08-19

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Lincoln Steffens

President Roosevelt has followed Lincoln Steffens’s advice on inviting Peter Fenelon Collier and Norman Hapgood. Roosevelt would like Steffens to visit, so that he can discuss some ugly features of the New York situation with him.

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