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Various newspaper clippings from the Boston Transcript, Boston Evening Post, and Bulletin showing reactions in the press to the announcement that William H. Moody would remain in the cabinet.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-11-21
Secretary of War Taft discusses appointments for four different offices, including the Secretary of Agriculture. He gives President Roosevelt his assessment of nominees.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-11-17
President Roosevelt congratulates Samuel S. Koenig on being nominated for New York Secretary of State. Roosevelt has felt intimately involved with the population of the East Side of New York, and part of the reason he was drawn to supporting William H. Taft is because of Taft’s “belief in and appreciation of our citizens such as those whose home is on the East Side of New York.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-09-22
President Roosevelt informs Secretary of the Interior Garfield that he will appoint Frank Pierce as Assistant Secretary of the Interior and is sorry about Thomas Ryan’s resignation. He encloses a letter for Garfield to forward to Ryan. The president also notes that the Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C., has been a good fit for Archibald B. Roosevelt and believes Garfield’s son, James Abram Garfield, would do well too.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-09-13
President Roosevelt would never deny a request from Maria Longworth Storer for anything but political reasons. He does not intend to make any changes to his Cabinet and is particularly impressed with Secretary of War Elihu Root. Roosevelt would take many things into consideration before appointing any man to a Cabinet position. At present, it would not be advisable to appoint a Catholic man as ambassador to Germany or Italy. If the position of ambassador to France becomes available, it could be offered to Bellamy Storer.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-10-04
Promoted upon the death of William McKinley a week earlier, President Roosevelt thanks McKinley’s Secretary of State John Thomas McDonough for the letter. Roosevelt assures McDonough that he intends to make no changes to the Cabinet.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-09-20
George M. Cortelyou tenders his resignation as Postmaster General to President Roosevelt in order to accept the appointment of Secretary of the Treasury.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-03-02
Senator Albert J. Beveridge requests the number of African Americans President Roosevelt has appointed during his presidency, as well as a short account of the three or four “bitter fights that have been made against him on account of some of these appointments.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-20
George Westinghouse writes to Jacob H. Schiff regarding appointments to the Equitable Life Assurance Society’s board.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-06-30
Senator R. A. Alger has informed Truman Handy Newberry that President Roosevelt is considering appointing Newberry as Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Newberry thanks Roosevelt for this honor and assures him he will attempt to merit Roosevelt’s confidence.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-02-07
Senator Lodge informs President Roosevelt that he did not intend to push for James B. Reynolds’s appointment to Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and is sorry to hear of Secretary of the Treasury Shaw’s feelings about the matter. Lodge only suggested Reynolds when Shaw asked him for names. Lodge vouches for Reynolds’s competency and character.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-02-06
Judge Gray proposes Charles Patrick Neill for Commissioner of Labor. Gray and Neill served together on the Anthracite Coal Strike Commission.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-12-08
Charles H. Boynton, superintendent of the Eastern Division of the Associated Press, informs Charles A. Boynton, superintendent of the Southern Division, that two Boston newspapers have published the news that Secretary of the Navy William H. Moody will remain in the Cabinet.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-11-22
George Washington Aldridge asks Senator Platt to support William S. Wandby for Commissioner of Labor.
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1904-11-15
William Emlen Roosevelt gives President Roosevelt his advice on selecting a new Secretary of the Treasury. He tells the president that jealousy among businessmen might undermine their impartiality when offering advice.
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1904-11-14
Benjamin Ide Wheeler considers how President Roosevelt will govern now that he has a “mandate” from the people, but Congress is mostly filled with persons selected by special interest. Wheeler thinks there will be continuing disagreement among members of the Republican party. He discusses possible Cabinet appointments.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-11-13
Senator Crane writes to President Roosevelt to arrange a visit to discuss the appointment of the replacement for Commissioner of Labor Carroll D. Wright. Crane notes that mutual friends do not want an appointee who is too much for labor or too much for manufacturers.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-11-11
President Roosevelt uses an “appointment” sponge to clean Elihu Root with “equitable corporations” water. Roosevelt stands beside a “Roosevelt’s patent purifier” barrel. Behind Roosevelt and Root are two outfits for Paul Morton and Acting Secretary of State and a “Secretary of State’s chair.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-07-07
The writer highlights the positive aspects of President Roosevelt’s selection of Charles J. Bonaparte for United States Secretary of the Navy.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905
There have been several changes to President Roosevelt’s cabinet and James Wilson may be departing as Secretary of Agriculture. Kansas seems entitled to a position in the cabinet and F. D. Coburn would be an acceptable candidate to succeed Wilson.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902