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Adolphe Danziger explains the difficulties he faced while trying to foster a movement in the Jewish communities of New York on Roosevelt’s behalf during the last Presidential campaign.
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1904-12-14
President Roosevelt thanks Lilly Pronich Bijur and Nathan Bijur for the kind letter. Roosevelt asks if she and her husband would be able to visit the White House for a reception before his term of office ends.
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1908-12-26
President Roosevelt requests Commissioner of Immigration Watchorn review Nathan Bijur’s complaint.
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1905-01-19
President Roosevelt informs F. Norton Goddard that he has had significant opposition to the candidacy of Marcus M. Marks for Postmaster of New York, including labor organizations, certain businessman, and prominent members of the Jewish community.
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1904-11-07
President Roosevelt agrees that Secretary of State Hay should send the correspondence to George B. Cortelyou. He believes the McCormick note may do some good if published. Hay should ask Cortelyou to consult several people, including Oscar S. Straus, Nathan Bijur, and Jacob H. Schiff. If he does, Roosevelt also suggests that Hay send notes to each of them, telling them he instructed Cortelyou to consult them, as they would be flattered to hear of it. Roosevelt has done as Hay suggested regarding Peru and Ecuador.
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1904-09-10
President Roosevelt has sent Jacob H. Schiff a draft of what he has written about the passport question for his letter of acceptance. Roosevelt has also sent copies to Oscar S. Straus and Nathan Bijur.
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1904-08-05
President Roosevelt has sent Oscar S. Straus a draft of what he has written about the passport question for his letter of acceptance. Roosevelt has also sent copies to Jacob H. Schiff and Nathan Bijur.
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1904-08-05
This memorandum states that Nathan Bijur telephoned from New York saying he wanted to discuss several things about the New York campaign with President Roosevelt. Bijur mentioned a letter by Oscar S. Straus published in the New York Times and the Herald. Bijur asks whether Roosevelt would like to speak in person or if he would prefer a letter.
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1906-10-19
Oscar S. Straus updates President Roosevelt on the status of the campaigns in New York. Straus is assisting Timothy L. Woodruff, the Chair of the Republican State Committee in New York. He says that while he and Nathan Bijur have their “hands on the pulses on the Eastside,” he is sure that William Randolph Hearst will mislead the people over there. Straus says it is different this year, as Tammany Hall is behind Hearst rather than George B. McClellan. Straus commends Bijur for his work, and says that the leading newspapers of the Eastside are supporting Charles Evans Hughes for Governor.
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1906-10-12
F. Norton Goddard received William Loeb’s telegram advising Goddard that President Roosevelt would like Goddard to go see Frank Wayland Higgins. Higgins is in favor of the appointment of Marcus M. Marks as Postmaster of New York, but does not want to openly recommend him for fear of displeasing Benjamin B. Odell. There is some hesitation among Republicans to nominate Marks due to his being Jewish. Goddard asks for the intervention of Roosevelt into this matter by entering into the conversation via telegram, and discusses the possible involvement of Jacob H. Schiff and Thomas Collier Platt as well. He believes the appointment of Marks would be politically beneficial to the Republican Party.
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1904-10-27
Secretary of State Hay writes to President Roosevelt to relate his correspondence with Nathan Bijur and to agree that they should avoid publicizing the “Russian matter” just now. He also expresses his opinion that “Russia is whipped and Germany is the power to be dealt with” and his confidence that Roosevelt will win the election. He concludes by emphasizing how important is is that Senator Lodge is reelected.
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1904-09-22
Philip Cowen updates Simon Wolf regarding efforts to promote President Roosevelt to New York’s Jewish population in the upcoming presidential campaign.
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1904-09-02
Louis A. Coolidge believes that Adolphe Danziger did more for President Roosevelt’s campaign than Nathan Bijur did.
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1904-12-20
Republican National Committee Chairman Cortelyou writes to President Roosevelt to advise him that Simon Wolf thinks he can do more for the Republican Party than Cortelyou believes he can and that he stirs up antagonism. He also tells Roosevelt that he is holding “the Hay correspondence about the Jews with Nathan Bijur, Dr. Blaustein, and others…to be given out at just the right time.”
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1904-09-30