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President Roosevelt sends the letter to William H. Taft for corrections. He has also sent copies to Representatives J. S. Sherman and William Brown McKinley, Republican Committee Chairman Frank H. Hitchcock, and Secretary of State Elihu Root for comments. Roosevelt suggests Taft also review it with a western radical.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-09-01
President Roosevelt thanks Columbia University President Butler for alerting him to a particularly disagreeable plank in the Nebraska Republican Party’s platform. Roosevelt believes these ideas are “the worst type of Jeffersonism.”
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1907-09-27
President Roosevelt tells Attorney General Bonaparte not to decide on the Alaska judgeship yet, as Senator E. J. Burkett has just suggested to him a new candidate. Roosevelt has promised Burkett that Bonaparte will consider his candidate so long as he is qualified.
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1907-09-28
President Roosevelt will meet with Mr. Collins and Representative Burkett. If Harry Thompson Dobbins is ever in Washington, D.C., Roosevelt has several matters to discuss with him.
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1904-01-02
Wilbur L. Davidson, superintendent of Chautauquas and secretary of American University, invites President Roosevelt to deliver a series of lectures post-African safari. Davidson praises Roosevelt’s work during his presidency, noting Roosevelt’s accomplishments and reputation, and offers to compensate travel and accommodations. Davidson apologizes that he cannot make this request in-person but hopes that Roosevelt will inspire the masses through these lectures.
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1909-02-17
In a telephone message, Albert J. Beveridge reported on the positions of several Senators regarding the battleship bill, and provided a list of Senators President Roosevelt should speak to about it.
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1908-04-20
Seth Bullock updates William Loeb on the political situation in the the Midwest. Iowa and Nebraska will support Secretary of War William H. Taft for President. Senator E. J. Burkett of Nebraska would be willing to support Charles Evans Hughes or Senator Robert M. La Follette in exchange for the Vice Presidential nomination, but will not be successful. The situation is more complicated in the Dakotas, where different factions are taking advantage of political divides in Republican parties in those states. In particular, La Follette is working thoroughly for votes in North Dakota.
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1908-01-17
Seth Bullock reports to William Loeb on attendance at the Public Lands Convention held in Denver, Colorado, and on support for Roosevelt for a second elective term as president.
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1907-06-28
Secretary of Commerce and Labor George B. Cortelyou sits and reads a “Catalogue of young vice-presidential timber” as Nebraska Representative E. J. Burkett, Minnesota Representative James A. Tawney, Illinois Representative William A. Rodenberg, Iowa Senator Jonathan P. Dolliver, Iowa Representative Robert G. Cousins, and Indiana Representative Charles B. Landis look over the fence at Cortelyou. President Roosevelt watches from the “White House.” Caption: Chairman (elect) Cortelyou—Don’t all speak at once, gentlemen.
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1904-05-29
President Taft, as a railroad brakeman, stands atop a freight car labeled “Administration Route.” He is waving to a woman labeled “Reactionary Politics” driving an automobile. The train is headed for a tunnel labeled “Revolt of the West.” Above the train is a bar labeled “Insurgent Movement” from which strips of rope are hanging, labeled “Burkett, Beveridge, Brown, Nelson, Clapp, Cummins, Dolliver, Bristow, [and] La Follette,” an insurgent group of senators who broke with Taft’s policies. Includes note: “A telltale is a bar to which strips of leather or rope are attached to warn brakemen on freight trains when they are approaching a bridge or a tunnel.” Caption: But there is still time to duck.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1909-11-17
This article describes President Roosevelt as the “overwhelming choice” of state legislators in South Dakota and Nebraska, as illustrated by the results of a poll.
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1907-03-02