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Theodore Roosevelt encloses a letter from Edwin Liebfreed offering the Progressive Party the use of his auditorium for meetings. If Governor Woodruff does not take advantage of the offer, Roosevelt would like the letter returned.
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1912-08-26
Theodore Roosevelt enjoyed Dr. Charles T. Baylis’s letter and will call on Mr. Allen next Tuesday. He believes in the Progressive movement, and Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt thank Timothy L. Woodruff for the work he and Isabel Morrison Woodruff have done for the political campaign.
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1912-07-01
Theodore Roosevelt declines Honorable Timothy Woodruff’s courtesy to attend a public meeting. Roosevelt would only care to attend an aviation meet if he “were to go up” without implication of the “slightest notoriety.”
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1911-07-21
Theodore Roosevelt thanks his former Lieutenant Governor Timothy L. Woodruff for the invitation to attend the opening of the Aerodrome, but must decline due to a prior engagement.
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1911-06-08
Theodore Roosevelt invites Governor Woodruff to lunch.
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1911-01-31
Theodore Roosevelt explain to Timothy L. Woodruff that he is not able to attend a reception, but would like to dine with Woodruff and William A. Prendergast soon. Roosevelt also thanks Woodruff for the clippings he sent and congratulates Woodruff on his election victory.
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1912-12-24
Theodore Roosevelt informs Timothy L. Woodruff that he does not oppose his nephew, Theodore Douglas Robinson, going up for chairman of the New York State Progressive Party Committee. However, because he is his nephew, Roosevelt feels he cannot support him for the position as he could other candidates.
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1912-12-03
Theodore Roosevelt invites Timothy L. Woodruff and his wife, Isabel Morrison Woodruff, to lunch.
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1912-11-18
President Roosevelt congratulates Timothy L. Woodruff on his role in the election victories both nationally and in the state of New York.
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1908-11-04
President Roosevelt encloses a letter from Louis J. Hilliard of Groveland, New York, to Superintendent of Public Works Frederick C. Stevens. He would like Republican State Committee Chairman Woodruff to look it over, because he believes that the letter merits “drastic action” from him. Roosevelt would like the State Committee to take every possible step to ensure that the entire Republican Party ticket, especially including Charles Evans Hughes, gets “the fullest possible support” in Livingston County.
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1908-10-27
President Roosevelt heartily approves of the selection of Joseph Hodges Choate.
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1908-08-05
President Roosevelt tells Timothy L. Woodruff that positive coverage of anyone by the New York Evening Post “creates a slight presumption against him” in Roosevelt’s mind. Roosevelt counsels Woodruff not to pay it any attention in the matter of Charles Evans Hughes’ re-nomination for Governor of New York. Roosevelt describes several letters he has received, both for and against Hughes, and encloses a few.
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1908-08-05
President Roosevelt congratulates Timothy L. Woodruff and Brooklyn on the election results.
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1907-11-06
William Loeb confirms Timothy L. Woodruff’s meeting with President Roosevelt.
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1907-03-22
President Roosevelt informs Timothy L. Woodruff that Secretary of State Elihu Root’s speech went well. He comments that Root is a good man, and now everyone knows it.
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1906-11-04
President Roosevelt discusses the best strategies for Republican victories in the upcoming elections in New York with Representative Woodruff. Roosevelt believes that gubernatorial candidate Charles Evans Hughes represents his policies “as regards internal affairs of the nation” and sees the possible election of William Randolph Hearst “as a smashing defeat.”
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1906-10-14
President Roosevelt believes the best strategy for the upcoming elections in New York is a focus on state issues rather than on his administration or the Republican Party from a “national standpoint.” Roosevelt sends letters “from a man who knows what he is talking about” to Lieutenant Governor of New York and Chairman of the Republican State Committee Woodruff and asks him to share them with gubernatorial candidate Charles Evans Hughes. Roosevelt does not think Representative and Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon would help gain support in New York, as the circumstances in this case call for a “home cabinet, not outsiders.”
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1906-10-11
President Roosevelt asks Lieutenant Governor Woodruff if he would give judge William J. Carr the letter about his nomination and discusses activities regarding upcoming elections in New York and New York City.
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1906-10-09
President Roosevelt informs Lieutenant Governor of New York and New York Republican State Committee Chairman Woodruff that he has sent a letter to former New York Attorney General John Clay Davies. Roosevelt does not know New York businessman John Warne Gates, and wishing to stay out of controversies asks if someone else can approach him.
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1906-10-06
President Roosevelt details various strategies for the Republican candidates in the upcoming elections in New York to Lieutenant Governor of New York and New York Republican State Committee Chairman Woodruff. Roosevelt believes William Randolph Hearst will carry votes in Upstate New York, therefore the focus should not be only on the cities.
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1906-10-04