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Theodore Roosevelt tells Edwin A. Van Walkenburg that it was “outrageous” for the Associated Press to fake a statement that Roosevelt had told William H. Taft he favored his renomination in 1912.
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1911-06-14
Robert Mathews sends Theodore Roosevelt a clipping from a recent article published in the Rochester Post Express after reading Roosevelt’s article in The Outlook.
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1911-06-07
Irving Fisher asks Theodore Roosevelt if they can meet in the office of Outlook Magazine on Monday to discuss Roosevelt possibly writing an editorial concerning opponents of Pure Food Law campaigning to withdraw support for the National Bureau of Health.
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1911-06-02
Charles Thompson is impressed by The Outlook’s recent article on the Arbitration Treaty. He questions the need for a peace treaty when the United States is already on “friendly terms” with the rest of the world, and credits good statesmanship for international peace.
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1911-05-22
Samuel Meadow has enclosed two articles that he has sent to two newspapers about the public opinion of New York citizens on the recent Tammany Hall case. Meadow and many of his acquaintances are fans of Theodore Roosevelt, and Meadow hopes he will be interested in the articles.
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1911-05-20
H. C. O’Reilly requests a copy of Theodore Roosevelt’s speech for the Memorial Day celebration in Newark, New Jersey to be published in the news in time.
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1911-05-22
Frank Knox informs Theodore Roosevelt of Senator Smith’s accusation that the press prevent the public from knowing about Roosevelts trips.
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1911-05-15
William T. Blaine expresses the need for a national independent newspaper and explains the personal and financial benefits this undertaking would have for Theodore Roosevelt. Blaine would like to meet with Roosevelt in person to discuss this business proposition.
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1911-05-12
On behalf of The Labor World of New York & New Jersey, Leon C. Sutton asks Theodore Roosevelt to write an article for the next edition about arbitration, profit sharing, and other similar business interests. Sutton believes capital and labor working in tandem leads to profitable success in business and strikes, boycotts, and lockouts are destructive forces working against this success.
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1911-05-11
Clinton S. Scott was only recently able to forward Senator William Edgar Borah a copy of The Republican containing Theodore Roosevelt’s speech in Phoenix, Arizona. He apologizes to Frank Harper for the delay.
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1911-04-19
President-elect Taft advises President Obaldia of Panama that going forward with his country’s proposed government timber contract would be a critical mistake. If the deal proved to be good for the government and bad for the company that received the contract, there are insufficient safeguards in place to ensure the work is completed. If the timber is extremely profitable, the Panamanian government could find itself controlled by a private company. The United States would also be displeased to see another entity gain so much power in Panama. Taft shares this advice confidentially, and in an unofficial capacity. In a postscript, he assures Obaldia that he was not influenced by the “malignantly slanderous reports” on this topic in the American press, and he thanks Obaldia for the previous night’s “beautiful and magnificent entertainment.”
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1909-02-05
William Emlen Roosevelt apologizes to President Roosevelt about not being able to make it to Washington, D.C. to visit. He offers to arrange a car when Roosevelt and Edith go to Oyster Bay, New York and is following in the newspapers Roosevelt’s struggles with Congress.
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1909-01-29
Edmund Heller assures President Roosevelt that he has not given out any statements on what they will be doing during their African expedition. Heller has found little information on the plants and animals of Africa in his research. He believes Roosevelt’s party will bring back more zoological material and information than any other expedition has ever obtained on East Africa.
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1909-01-22
Lyman Abbott, of The Outlook, writes to President Roosevelt to inform him that Henry Joseph Haskell, of the Kansas City Star, will be in Washington, D.C., for a time. Abbott has a high opinion of the Kansas City Star and has worked with Haskell before, and wishes to endorse Haskell to Roosevelt in case Roosevelt has the opportunity to meet him.
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1909-01-05
John St. Loe Strachey approves of President Roosevelt’s recent article on ex-presidents, and opines that if Roosevelt were the only man to ever become an ex-president, then there would be no worry, but that people have to consider normal men rather than only Roosevelt. If the United States were to retain the services of ex-presidents by paying them, it would forestall any chance that an ex-president would take a job that seems unsuitable for an ex-president. Strachey extended his earlier invitation to Roosevelt not to set a definite date to visit, but merely to make sure that Roosevelt’s calendar did not fill up. Recent accusations against Roosevelt in newspapers by Joseph Pulitzer disgust Strachey, and he hopes that Roosevelt’s sister and brother-in-law, Corinne and Douglas Robinson, have not been worried by the attack.
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1908-12-19
Russell B. Harrison has received President Roosevelt’s request for him to return a letter concerning Delevan Smith, and does so with haste. Harrison says that he has treated the letter as a private communication, as Roosevelt requested. He explains his recommendation that the letter not be shown to Smith, as he owns a newspaper which could potentially attack Roosevelt. Harrison and other Indiana Republicans have been disgusted by the actions of the Indianapolis News. Harrison regrets that he did not mention his desire for a position at a time when he needed one, but he wanted the suggestion to come from Roosevelt.
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1908-12-09
Rear Admiral Cowles requests that a representative from the New York Herald be included on the list of correspondents for the movement of the Great White Fleet in light of the newspaper’s scope and history of reporting on the Navy. Cowles notes that Henry S. Brown, an executive of the Herald, is particularly incensed over the inclusion of a correspondent from a newspaper owned by William Randolph Hearst, and intends to meet with William Loeb personally to discuss adding a correspondent from the Herald.
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1907-11-20
Herman Henry Kohlsaat tells President Roosevelt about a member of the Hamilton Club of Chicago who is a firm supporter of the president. Kohlsaat also congratulates Roosevelt on ignoring one of the most recent attacks on him in the papers.
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1907-11-22
John Dunbar Pringle sends President Roosevelt a marked copy of The Labor World with an editorial about organized labor. The newspaper agrees with Roosevelt’s course of action and notes that such a position takes courage.
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1907-05-04
John C. York commends President Roosevelt’s letter to William Henry Jackson (Honore Jaxon) that was published in the newspapers.
This is the letter referred to.