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Senator Hanna is in New York and Postmaster General Payne was also surprised and annoyed at seeing a letter in the paper this morning.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-12-08
Francis E. Leupp asks President Roosevelt to carefully consider his position on the Charleston case. To change his course at this point would risk Roosevelt’s policy toward African Americans while failing to earn him any support among Southern whites. After the emphasis Roosevelt gave that was published in newspapers, to change course would weaken Roosevelt’s standing in Leupp’s opinion.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-11-25
Silas McBee encloses advance sheets of The Churchman and would like President Roosevelt to read the sections about the Anthracite Coal Strike.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-10-07
Joseph Bucklin Bishop hopes that President Roosevelt will see tonight’s edition of the Commercial Advertiser.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-10-04
There has been a newspaper report that Kermit Roosevelt will be attending Cloyne House School. Oliver W. Huntington believes that a telegram to Endicott Peabody may have given rise to the newspaper report.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-09-17
Bishop O’Gorman alerts President Roosevelt that Archbishop Ireland is not in New York as reported in the newspapers.
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1902-08-13
Robert W. Meek claims that the New York Times wants news with no bias and attempts to be entirely fair.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-05-31
An Indianapolis newspaper printed a story that Harry S. New and President Roosevelt were to participate in a hunting trip. New writes to explain that he was not consulted before the story was printed and that he has no information about such a trip.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-05-20
Senator Lodge has the clipping from the New York Herald that President Roosevelt had George B. Cortelyou send, but he has already seen the article that was written by Judge Bumpus.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-05-09
General Miles claims statements in the Washington Post are misleading and asks for a personal interview with President Roosevelt in order to provide “certain facts.” The meeting can take place at any time Roosevelt finds it most convenient.
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1902-04-14
Horace White was not informed about George R. Bidwell’s interference with the Steele Douglas contest. He apologizes for publishing incorrect information.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-12-04
George Gunton encloses a letter showing that even the Evening Post supports President Roosevelt’s action in the Bidwell matter.
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1901-12-05
Bishop notes that he has dismissed the newspaper project he has been working on for a friend and desires to be of service to Roosevelt. He applauds Roosevelt for what he said to an opponent in the Evening Post office. He encourages Roosevelt not to “forgive that outfit,” stating that if Roosevelt did so, he could not forgive him and this would be the only ground that could cause them to part company.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-10-17
J. S. Welch encloses an article by E. Mont Reily which appeared in the Missouri State Republican and was subsequently picked up by the Kansas City Star and other papers.
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1901-10-12
Rollin Lynde Hartt sends a copy of the Boston Evening Transcript with articles entitled “Warships in Embryo” and “The Man Without a Pocket.”
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1901-08-30
John Scudder McLain sends copies of his newspaper from Monday and Tuesday so that Vice President Roosevelt can have a record of his visit to Minnesota.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-09-05
E. J. Hutchinson writes to Vice President Roosevelt about a recent article in the Boston Herald. The article reported on a speech by Daniel Henry Chamberlain, as well as remarks by Charles S. Hamlin and Charles Eliot Norton, that criticized the government’s colonial policy, particularly with regard to the Spanish American war. Hutchinson is concerned because these charges come from such eminent people, and says that their statements need a public response.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-08-23
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt refutes an interview printed in The New York Journal, stating that it was an invention from beginning to end. Roosevelt reports that he refused the interview, despite the persistence of the reporter, because he has never “given a certificate of character to the Journal” and that nothing “would be of less consequence” than the reporter changing his opinion of Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1898-03-20
Clare Smith writes to Ray H. Mattison regarding the availability of the Stockgrowers Journal at the Carnegie Public Library in Miles City, Montana.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1949-08-22