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Theodore Roosevelt agrees about the colliers and hopes that his statement was on point. He thought that Coe Isaac Crawford gave a powerful speech in the William Lorimer case. The zebra skin has been sent and Roosevelt is attempting to locate the missing book.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-17
President Roosevelt describes the process by which he appointed a judge in Connecticut to William Dudley Foulke. Roosevelt vehemently denies reports that he promised the appointment to John K. Beach but later appointed another man in order to get a delegation favorable to nominating William H. Taft at the Republican National Convention.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-08-03
President Roosevelt reports that it is questionable whether he will pass by Connecticut. If he does, he thinks that he would probably promote George C. Holt. He concludes that he may not because its two senators “have made it rather a point to be unfriendly” toward him and Secretary of War Taft.
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1907-06-14
President Roosevelt is sure that Lieutenant Governor Lake saw the preposterous article in the Hartford Times based on an alleged conversation with Lake claiming that Roosevelt is trying to control Connecticut and wanted Lake to be a congressman instead of E. Stevens Henry. Roosevelt knows Lake did not say anything of the sort but is concerned about potential trouble if “so gross an absurdity” is repeated. Therefore, he asks Lake to take conservative measures to convince people that the article is false. He feels the Harvard Overseers have “acted like fools about football.”
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1906-01-22
President Roosevelt tells Wayne MacVeagh that the more he has thought about federal control of life insurance, the more he thinks it is an unwise idea to change his opinion on it. However, he is not sure that he will be able to get it and believes it best to not pay attention to either position. He also tells MacVeagh that Andrew Carnegie has offered to give “the last $50,000” if Roosevelt returns all the contributions that were “supposed to be tainted money.”
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1905-10-08
John Callan O’Laughlin informs Theodore Roosevelt that Senator William Lorimer was cleared of any corruption or wrongdoing in securing a seat in the United States Senate, and claims that he was saved by the actions of lame duck politicians. Even though Lorimer is in the Senate, however, O’Laughlin believes he “is so badly besmirched he will be of no importance save as [an] object lesson to [the] country.” He thanks Roosevelt for his service to the government.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-03-01
President Roosevelt’s sister, Anna Roosevelt Cowles, writes to him expressing her wish that she were at Chicago in person, rather than trying to get news of what was going on from newspapers. She thinks that a stampede for Roosevelt is close. Her visit to Groton has been pleasant, and she enjoyed seeing Kermit Roosevelt while she was there. She thanks Theodore Roosevelt for being good to her “very much better better half,” William S. Cowles, as Roosevelt is making it possible for him to fly his flag again before he retires. Cowles also comments on other political events, including the appointment of someone to the Senate, and mentions upcoming travel plans.
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1908-06-16
Anna Roosevelt Cowles is glad that President Roosevelt has been able to get away from Washington, D.C., for a time to go to Sagamore Hill. Cowles congratulates Roosevelt about something in which she feels that Roosevelt was able to control the flow of events well. She also mentions a humorous comment from Senator Morgan G. Bulkeley.
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1908-06-20
Charles S. Mellen acknowledges that the stock of The New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad Company has shrunk tremendously, but notes that all railroad stocks have fallen and all railroad corporations are subject to attacks from the government. Mellen cannot guarantee what is going to happen but there is nothing to “warrant apprehension regarding the dividends.” Connecticut Senator Morgan G. Bulkeley assures Mellen that as long as he is an honest man he is in no danger of going behind bars, though Mellen notes that determining if a man is honest depends on one’s point of view.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-10-30
Anna Roosevelt Cowles asks President Roosevelt if he is allowed to autograph a few of his books for sale at a fair in Hartford, Connecticut. Cowles discusses her interest in local political matters and describes a finger injury her son, William Sheffield Cowles Jr., suffered at the expense of a bicycle chain.
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1906-10-17
Theodore Roosevelt is concerned about Anna Roosevelt Cowles’s rheumatism. He is pleased that she has made the decision to come home, believing that she is more comfortable in her own house. Roosevelt is glad that George Payne McLean defeated Morgan G. Bulkeley in the Connecticut race for United States Senate, but he wishes that either man were more like Joseph W. Alsop. Roosevelt is happy that his Christmas gifts, zebra-skin rugs, have been received well. He also gave one to Corinne Roosevelt Robinson and one to Nannie Lodge, and says they are better than any trophies he brought back from his safari.
1911-01-24