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President Roosevelt is relieved to hear the good news about Alexander Lambert’s father-in-law, Knight D. Cheney. He agrees that the enclosed article was excellent, and Archibald B. Roosevelt has been doing well.
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1907-03-20
President Roosevelt tells S. S. McClure that he had received his letter of November 30, noting that McAdoo is “a fine fellow.” Roosevelt also appreciates the clipping that McClure has forwarded him, which featured kind words from the Head Master of Eton College in England, which featured kind words about the President.
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1906-12-01
President Roosevelt thanks Captain Wainwright for the interesting article and will take the same perspective as he does in his message to Congress.
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1906-10-16
President Roosevelt tells Dean Hurlbut of Harvard College he thinks the editor of the Independent displayed “grosely improper conduct” concerning his son Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt does nothing concerning the offending editorial, but has turned the author’s brother away from a ministership in Venezuela.
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1906-10-13
President Roosevelt commends Brander Matthews for his recent article on reform and reformers.
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1906-09-27
President Roosevelt thanks Elizabeth Stevenson for the clipping.
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1906-09-19
President Roosevelt thanks Andrew Carnegie for the letter and clippings. He is open to having a joint conference and appointing delegates to it, although he cannot pay them or give them official positions. Although, he can decide how the government printer is to print executive documents.
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1906-09-24
President Roosevelt will look up the article Brander Matthews suggested. He has no comments on the simplified spelling business.
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1906-09-24
President Roosevelt sends Attorney General Moody clippings and a letter. If possible, Roosevelt wants to remove United States Marshal Vivian J. Fagin at once as he has “been behaving so badly” that it is “probable he is a little out of his head.”
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1906-09-12
President Roosevelt asks Mike Donovan to give his best wishes to Donovan’s newly-married daughter.
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1906-09-13
President Roosevelt assures Henry Howard of the Eastern Yacht Club he is not annoyed and knew nothing of the enclosed article. He does not regard the yacht races as an international failure. On the contrary, he finds them “a very sportsmanlike thing” and hopes for their success.
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1906-08-24
On behalf of President Roosevelt, William Loeb sends Secretary of War Taft a letter from William Allen White to Roosevelt, a newspaper clipping containing charges against General Leonard Wood, and a copy of Roosevelt’s reply to Allen.
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1906-08-04
President Roosevelt thanks Richard Lloyd Jones for the letter and “wise and appropriate” articles he sent. Roosevelt began an inquiry into the subject of immigration recently, and tells Jones that “the diversion of the immigrants into proper territories after they reach New York” is largely being considered by Commissioner of Labor Charles Patrick Neill, although Commissioner General of Immigration Frank P. Sargent will consider the matter as well. Roosevelt has sent the articles to both of them for consideration.
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1906-07-12
President Roosevelt is interested in the clipping Charles F. Stokes mentioned and is surprised Collier’s Weekly employed “such a fakir” as Louis Livingston Seaman. The naval review was successful. He sends his regards to Stokes’s family.
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1906-09-04
President Roosevelt thanks French Ambassador Jusserand for the clipping, as it gave him the opportunity to take the needed action.
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1906-05-23
President Theodore Roosevelt informs Forestry Chief Gifford Pinchot that some Nebraska congressmen are concerned about the growth of forest reserves in their state. Roosevelt encloses a newspaper clipping which shows that some of the cattlemen who had been engaged in illegal fencing are pushing for the reserves.
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1906-04-09
President Roosevelt thanks Richard B. Hall for sending him a clipping. Roosevelt explains that what he said “is in my view the only position that can with propriety be taken on the subject.”
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1906-03-26
President Roosevelt thanks Reverend Timothy J. Murphy for the letter and clipping.
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1906-03-12
President Roosevelt would like the administration to respond to statements made in the Star by L. W. Ferguson, a locomotive engineer in Panama. Secretary of War Taft should get Chief Engineer John F. Stevens and Isthmian Canal Commission President Theodore P. Shonts to answer the statements in detail.
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1906-03-05
President Roosevelt tells Senator Lodge that he cannot write fifteen thousand words as a preface for the history of New York, or for “any other place under the sun.” Yesterday Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt gave Roosevelt a paragraph which they both thought referred to Lodge’s wife, Anna Cabot Mills Davis Lodge. Secretary of State Elihu Root also initially thought that it referred to Anna, but later discovered that it referred to the wife of Senator Chester I. Long. Roosevelt asks Lodge to find out whether or not it referred to Anna.
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1906-01-31