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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
President Roosevelt writes to former Lieutenant Governor of New York Timothy L. Woodruff about placing Catholic nominees on the judiciary ticket in New York and suggests William J. Carr. Roosevelt does “not care a snap of my finger whether a man is Catholic or Protestant,” but wishes to “to do all in our power to get all citizens back of Hughes” in the upcoming election.
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1906-10-03
Rudolph Forster informs Timothy L. Woodruff that the enclosed letter was dictated by President Roosevelt.
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1906-10-03
Rudolph Forster writes on behalf of President Roosevelt to Chairman of the New York State Republican Committee Woodruff and informs him of his hopes for the elections in New York City and worries for William Randolph Hearst’s influence in the New York Governor’s race.
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1906-10-03
President Roosevelt wants to send Timothy L. Woodruff’s recent letter to Ogden, McKeen, or Charles A. Schieren, as he believes it could do them good. Roosevelt is “astonished” that these three men with experience in practical politics are so helpless.
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1905-12-26
President Roosevelt asks Timothy L. Woodruff to confer with the men who have signed the petition about the appointment in question.
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1905-12-19
President Roosevelt is reluctant to send any of his cabinet members to speak, but will do so for Timothy L. Woodruff, as he is “entitled” to ask. Roosevelt says he will send Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw or Attorney General William H. Moody, but is unable to send Secretary of State John Hay or Secretary of War William H. Taft.
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1904-11-14
President Roosevelt thanks Timothy L. Woodruff, his former lieutenant governor, for his “hearty, disinterested and magnanimous work” during the recent political campaign. Roosevelt is particularly proud of the results in Kings County, New York.
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1904-11-09
President Roosevelt thanks Timothy L. Woodruff for the letter, and for the “active work” he has done.
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1904-10-22
President Roosevelt was doubtful about Colorado and Wisconsin but believes Connecticut will be safe.
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1904-06-22
President Roosevelt sends his sympathy regarding the death of Timothy L. Woodruff’s wife, Cora Eastman Woodruff.
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1904-03-30
President Roosevelt claims that the only place he can rest is at Oyster Bay and declines Governor Woodruff’s trip invitation.
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1903-08-10
President Roosevelt was pleased to see Governor Woodruff and his wife the other evening, and would like to spend his spare time in Oyster Bay.
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1903-03-07
President Roosevelt congratulates Governor Woodruff.
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1903-02-18
President Roosevelt will discuss the promotion with Secretary of War Elihu Root.
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1902-12-27
President Roosevelt requests Lieutenant Governor Woodruff’s opinion on possible candidates for postmaster. He also includes marked clippings and asks if Woodruff has denied using “such language.” If he has not, Roosevelt feels a public contradiction of that language should be issued.
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1901-11-25
Stewart L. Woodford tells Timothy L. Woodruff that he will not contribute to the New York State Convention, as it hurt Governor Charles Evans Hughes’s political prospects. The New York delegation only nominally supports Hughes, but in reality supports Secretary of War William H. Taft. Woodford will pay the expenses for the National Convention at Chicago, and inquires how much it will be.
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1908-04-25
Representative Fassett advises Timothy L. Woodruff against naming any of New York’s “big four” delegates-at-large to the Republican National Convention himself. Governor Charles Evans Hughes is running for president, and anything short of “fair play” with Hughes will be detrimental to politics in the state. Fassett believes that Hughes should make his preference for delegates known, and advises see him.
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1908-02-07
Joseph H. De Bragga informs Timothy L. Woodruff that he has heard about a bill before Congress that would abolish 17 pension agencies and process all pension payments from Washington, D.C. Bragga is against this bill and believes that abolishing the agencies would inconvenience and hurt the pensioners on the rolls. He does not think there will be any cost savings from this change either, and is against making the change.
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1908-02-03
Victor Thrane thinks that an endorsement from President Theodore Roosevelt, the greatest living American, will ensure the victory for Charles Evans Hughes against William Randolph Hearst in the election for governor of New York. Hearst stands only for himself, and the citizens of the Pacific Coast share the sentiment which Thrane is sending to Timothy Woodruff.
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1906-10-30