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Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary invites Charles Fletcher Lummis to join Roosevelt on the train to Los Angeles.
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1911-02-21
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary suggests that Loye Miller contact President Scherer of Throop Polytechnic Institute regarding Roosevelt’s Pasadena itinerary.
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1911-02-21
Theodore Roosevelt thanks F. O. Bristol for the invitation for his son to visit Bristol and his family in Los Angeles, California.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-20
Theodore Roosevelt accepts Meyer Lissner’s invitation and discusses the schedule for Roosevelt’s visit to Los Angeles, California.
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1911-02-20
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary thanks Robert G. Loucks for the brief he sent to Roosevelt. Roosevelt hopes to see Loucks in Los Angeles.
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1911-02-16
Theodore Roosevelt declines an invitation from Lynn Helm.
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1911-02-18
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary suggests that Edith Lee Conde contact Governor Johnson or University of California President Benjamin Ide Wheeler regarding Roosevelt’s arrangements while in California.
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1911-02-14
Theodore Roosevelt encloses a letter from Stanford University president David Starr Jordan for his son Ted. He has instructed Jordan to write Ted, and Ted will carry out his plan. He asks Ted to ask Jordan if that is all right. Roosevelt provides times and days for his trip between Phoenix and Los Angeles, and from Los Angeles to San Francisco.
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1911-02-08
Theodore Roosevelt informs Leslie W. Laumeister that he is unable to accept his invitation. He cannot add more stops on his trip to California. He is making arrangements through Governor Hiram Johnson and his son Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.
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1911-02-08
Theodore Roosevelt asks Charles Fletcher Lummis to arrange for him to visit his house when he is in Los Angeles.
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1911-02-03
Theodore Roosevelt agrees to deliver two speeches in California, one in Los Angeles and one in San Francisco.
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1911-01-31
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary shares Roosevelt’s California itinerary with James A. B. Scherer. If possible, he proposes Roosevelt give the Throop lecture in Pasadena instead of Los Angeles. He suggests Scherer contact Governor Hiram Johnson to make arrangements.
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1911-01-23
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary details Roosevelt’s Arizona travel itinerary for John P. Orme. He suggests Orme shares it with C. J. Blanchard.
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1911-01-16
Frank Harper informs James A. B. Scherer that Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt is unable to accept Madame Garfield’s invitation, as her visit to Los Angeles is private.
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1910
Theodore Roosevelt appreciates the invitation of George Alexander, Mayor of Los Angeles, but will not be traveling as far west as Los Angeles in the present year.
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1910-08-02
Theodore Roosevelt suggests that Warren J. Shepherd, former Rough Rider, get his congressman to visit the Pension Bureau, as Roosevelt has no influence with President Woodrow Wilson’s administration. Roosevelt encourages Shepherd to show his letter to his congressman.
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1914-12-29
Theodore Roosevelt informs Francis R. Horel that there is no truth to the accusations that Roosevelt was drinking during his visit to Portland, Oregon. He will not investigate this gossip, unless someone who heard it writes to him and the gossipers are prominent men. As far as Roosevelt can remember, the last time he drank was when he visited Los Angeles.
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1912-11-29
President Roosevelt thanks Walter Lindley for the letter, but does not think that it is necessary for “the Doctor” to stop and visit, as he will not be in gorilla land on his safari, and will not have much of a chance for elephant hunting.
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1908-11-26
President Roosevelt tells President of the University of California Benjamin Ide Wheeler that he is pleased a chapter of his former fraternity, Alpha Delta Phi, has opened at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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1908-08-02
President Roosevelt dictates a letter to, and in the presence of, Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock, recording the attitude of himself, Hitchcock, Senator Frank P. Flint of California, Director of the Geological Survey Charles D. Walcott, and Chief Forester Gifford Pinchot, on the topic of the Los Angeles water supply bill. Hitchcock believes that the city should be prohibited from using the water obtained by the bill for irrigation. Flint worries that because the water bill aims to supply water for the next half century, there will be a surplus at the beginning of the term that will need to be used in order to keep their rights to it. Walcott and Pinchot believe there is no objection to using the water for irrigation so long as it is surplus water not needed for drinking, washing, fire, and other work. Roosevelt notes that much of the opposition to the bill as a whole comes from power companies, and ultimately recommends that the bill be passed without a prohibition on using the water for irrigation, but with a prohibition against the city selling water rights to corporations or individuals for the purpose of subletting it for irrigation purposes.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-06-25