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President Roosevelt details how Attorney General Bonaparte is to respond to United States District Attorney N. M. Ruick, using quotations from various correspondences.
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1907-08-24
Reverend Dowie asks for William Loeb’s assistance in making sure President Roosevelt receives his enclosed letter asking Roosevelt to write a letter of introduction on his behalf to Ambassador Clayton.
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1905-01-31
Reverend Dowie will be traveling to Mexico to meet with President Diaz. Dowie asks President Roosevelt to write a letter of introduction, on his behalf, to Ambassador Clayton.
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1905-01-31
President Roosevelt inquires about successors to Harmon Liveright Remmel and Henry M. Cooper (mistakenly named Sloan in the letter) for the positions of Internal Revenue Collector and Marshal in Arkansas. Roosevelt suggests Postmaster General Payne discuss the appointments with Powell Clayton.
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1902-04-22
It will be very difficult to campaign successfully in Arkansas as it is a Democratic state and the Republican organization is controlled by Powell Clayton, a Taft supporter. Only if Roosevelt appears to be the likely presidential nominee will Clayton and his supporters change their position.
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1912-03-05
President Roosevelt has spoken with many members of the Republican National Committee, and plans to speak with several more. Roosevelt also asks Augustus Peabody Gardner to seek assurances from still other members of the Committee.
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1908-02-10
President Roosevelt tells Leslie Combs his plans regarding placing people in government positions. He hopes that Combs will read his Lincoln Day address once it is published.
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1905-01-12
President Roosevelt writes to Senator Platt that Powell Clayton is very angry over the talk that he has resigned, and that Roosevelt is choosing a successor.
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1904-06-17
President Roosevelt would not write to the head of a foreign country in such a case but William Loeb encloses a note from Roosevelt to Ambassador Clayton.
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1904-02-19
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
2020-07-16
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Corinne Roosevelt Robinson tells her brother, President Roosevelt, about some letters she has received from Frances Theodora Parsons about her husband, James Russell Parsons. James has been highly praised in Mexico, and Frances has written that the current ambassador, Powell Clayton, has said that he wished James could succeed him when he retires. Corinne agrees with this sentiment, and thinks James would be highly qualified for the position. She is excited about the upcoming election, and is looking forward to seeing Roosevelt and his family at Thanksgiving.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-10-17
Senator Platt recommends to President Roosevelt that Herbert G. Squiers, the Minister to Cuba, be selected for the Mexican Ambassadorship since Powell Clayton resigned. Platt discusses Squiers’s many accomplishments.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-06-16
Chronology of the daily life of Theodore Roosevelt from January 1884 to December 1891. Notable events include the deaths of Alice Lee Roosevelt and Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, Roosevelt’s time on his ranch, the completion of Sagamore Hill, Roosevelt’s engagement and marriage to Edith Kermit Carow, Theodore “Ted” Roosevelt’s birth, the “Great-Dieup” of cattle in North Dakota, and the founding of the Boone and Crockett Club.
Theodore Roosevelt Association
1985
Moore, Robert J. (Robert John), 1956-; Theodore Roosevelt Association
Ambassador Herbert Wolcott Bowen, current United States ambassador to Venezuela, is rumored to have significant support for advancement to ambassador to Mexico when Powell Clayton, the present ambassador, retires next year.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-10-11
This memorandum records the events relating to a current request made to William Loeb that some of the seats at the Republican National Convention assigned to President Roosevelt be made available for the use of ambassadors and ministers from several Central and South American countries. John Barrett, director of the International Bureau of American Republics, had asked Clayton Powell for the use of several seats to accommodate these diplomats, but after initially receiving an affirmative answer later found that there were no seats available for this purpose. There was likely a misunderstanding or miscommunication sometime during these preparations, but the chief hope now is to avoid embarrassment in not being able to provide the expected seats.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-03
John Barrett, in a conversation with Clayton Powell, was asked to find out how many members of the diplomatic corps may wish to attend the Republican National Convention in Chicago. Barrett asks the recipient of this letter to let him know whether they, or any member of their Legation, wish to attend this convention. Barrett also asks whether they would be interested in attending the Democratic National Convention, and says that he will begin making arrangements if they wish.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-03-05
Secretary of State Hay informed Secretary to the President William Loeb that he has approved the leave of absence request of Ambassador Clayton.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-04-09
Puck’s Independent Party figure sits on the left next to Puck beneath a sign that states “Independent Road to the White House.” At center, A. M. Clapp, with a cash box labeled “Republican Campaign Fund” and a sheet of paper that states “Permission to Remain in Office,” appears with Green B. Raum, who is holding a box labeled “Absolution” containing papers that state “Indispensable Dispensation,” selling indulgences for absolutions and dispensations to an old woman with a broom labeled “U. S.,” a “U. S. Scrub-Woman,” a “Page,” a “Treasy. Clerk,” and a “U. S. Postman” holding a paper that is a “Guarantee against Decapitation.” In the background, Whitelaw Reid carries a banner that states “The Republican Party is the Party of Salvation,” Thomas Jefferson Brady and Stephen Dorsey carry banners that state “The Republican Party Must Stay No Matter How” and “This is Our Last Chance,” and Powell Clayton drives a wagon carrying a safe labeled “Funds for an Aggressive Campaign.” Also depicted are William Walter Phelps with a paper that states “Its Only a Matter of Money” and Robert Ingersoll holding a paper labeled “Sweet C. O. D.” Caption: In the sixteenth century, Tetzel and his corrupt fellow-priests openly sold absolutions and dispensations, and played upon the fears of the people to fill their coffers, and keep themselves in power and place and shameful luxury. A little later, they were swept under in the cleansing flood of the great reformation. Will the star-route money-leeches please take notice that history repeats itself?
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-08-12
James Gillespie Blaine is the “plumed knight” wearing cabbage leaves on his head with two plumes labeled “Brag” and “Bluster,” and with a quill pen labeled “Gail Hamilton.” He holds a sword labeled “Guano Statesmanship” and a shield labeled “Monopoly Press,” and his legs are the bars of a horseshoe magnet labeled “Spoils System.” He sits on a pile of “Mulligan Letters” and “R. R. Bonds.” Attracted to the magnet are George M. Robeson labeled “Navy Swindles,” Whitelaw Reid, John A. Logan labeled “Hoodlum,” Col. John A. Joyce labeled “Ex-Convict,” Stephen W. Dorsey, William P. Kellogg labeled “Louisiana Frauds,” Joseph W. Keifer labeled “Speakership Corruption,” Cyrus W. Field labeled “‘L’ Road Swindle,” Jay Gould labeled “R. R. Wrecker,” Robert G. Ingersoll labeled “Star Route Plunder,” John Roach labeled “Navy Jobs,” Alonzo B. Cornell labeled “Blind Pool,” Thomas Collier Platt labeled “Me Too!!”, Schuyler Colfax labeled “Credit Mobilier,” Thomas J. Brady labeled “Star Router,” Powell Clayton labeled “Arkansas Frauds,” Russell Sage labeled “Wall Street Stock Gambler,” and Roscoe Conkling.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-06-25
At a dinner party is presidential candidate James Gillespie Blaine, who is trying to cover himself with pages of the New York Tribune, and by his side, vice-presidential candidate John A. Logan. Seated around a table set with “Pension Pie, Monopoly Stew, [and] Star Route Shortcake” are James W. Husted, Chancey M. Depew, Powell Clayton, Joseph Medill, Stephen W. Dorsey, Thomas J. Brady, a man identified as “Elkins,” William H. Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, Cyrus W. Field, Whitelaw Reid on his feet, John Roach, and Robert G. Ingersoll fleeing with a bone labeled “Star Route Spoils.” Blaine wears an “Anti-Sunstroke Cabbage Leaf” on his head, to which is attached a quill pen labeled “Gail Hamilton.” Projected onto a wall at the far end of the room are the words “Republican Revolt,” which has frightened everyone in the room.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-06-18