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President Roosevelt finds Isaac Cocks’s letter interesting and enjoyed seeing Cocks’s son, Representative William W. Cocks. Roosevelt similarly feels that Governor Charles Evans Hughes should be renominated, but does not feel that he should act to help Hughes. Roosevelt does “not want to seem to be continually interfering and dictating what shall be done.”
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1908-08-16
Isaac H. Cocks informs William Loeb that half of his mail comes through Westbury, New York, and that there are no problems as mail is received promptly. He also tells Loeb about his son William W. Cocks’s voyage to Hawaii and the Philippines.
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1907-09-11
Isaac H. Cocks asks William Loeb about the endorsement of a petition for a rural delivery route in Massapequa, New York.
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1907-08-29
Article discussing the actions of ex-Governor Benjamin B. Odell with current Governor Frank Wayland Higgins and the nomination for Speaker.
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1905-12-22
Theodore Roosevelt introduces Representative Cocks, a personal friend who would like to meet with the Argentine Minister of Agriculture, Eleodoro Lobos.
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1911-07-18
Theodore Roosevelt apologizes to Michael Bohan that he cannot attend the dinner for Representative William W. Cocks.
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1911-04-19
Theodore Roosevelt wishes he could lecture at Swarthmore College, but he explains to George A. Hoadley that he cannot accept any more engagements.
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1911-01-30
President Roosevelt appreciated Isaac H. Cocks’s letter, although he does not agree with him. He is glad that Cocks’s son William is his representative, and invites Cocks to visit him on Long Island.
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1908-05-03
President Roosevelt sends General Wood and Governor Smith a letter of introduction for William W. Cocks and his party of representatives. Cocks is on a tour of the Philippines, China, and Japan.
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1907-05-23
William W. Cocks has been nominated for the First Congressional District of New York. President Roosevelt asks that the Republican Congressional Committee assist Cocks.
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1904-09-19
William W. Cocks has been nominated for Assemblyman in Nassau County and President Roosevelt wants his home district to be Republican. Roosevelt would like William Emlen Roosevelt to raise money for Cocks and sends $200 as a starter, but asks him not to say where he got it.
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1903-10-02
Representative Dwight reviews the arrangements for Theodore Roosevelt’s trip through the unused farm country on October 24. Concerning politics, Dwight cannot find anything wrong in these rural districts, so the primary issue is arousing enthusiasm to get voters to the polls.
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1910-10-17
Timothy L. Woodruff advises William Loeb about the political situation in New York state. A delegation from Nassau County has asked state committeeman John J. Bartlett to withdraw his support for Congressman William W. Cocks in exchange for becoming State Committeeman. Cocks’s enemies are the cause of the opposition to Bartlett. Losing Bartlett would constitute a loss for President Roosevelt in his home district.
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1908-03-30
Commissioner Capers has directed the appointment of Theron H. Burden and Morris Levy, who were endorsed by Representatives William W. Cocks and Herbert Parsons, respectively.
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1908-01-04
Isaac H. Cocks assures William Loeb that the people of Nassau County stand with the president. Cocks’s son Representative William W. Cocks will likely arrive from Genoa on November 20.
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1907-11-07
Lafayette B. Gleason asks William Loeb for support in Orlando Hubbs’s campaign as the Republican candidate for assemblyman in the predominantly Democrat Suffolk County second district. Gleason fears a loss in the district would be particularly embarrassing given its proximity to President Theodore Roosevelt’s own.
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1907-10-28
Isaac H. Cocks thanks William Loeb and President Roosevelt for their kindness to his son, Representative William W. Cocks. He is pleased Edward M. Morgan was appointed Postmaster of New York.
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1907-08-16
Representative Calder from New York expresses to President Roosevelt his anxiety over the layoffs of men employed by the Brooklyn Navy Yard which lies in his Congressional District. He fears that the timing of the layoffs will harm Calder’s re-election chances and reminds Roosevelt that his opponent, Robert Baker, is anti-war and voted against the Naval Appropriation bill when previously in Congress. Calder also updates Roosevelt on the election prospects in Kings County, New York, for Charles Evans Hughes, the Republican candidate for governor running against William Randolph Hearst.
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1906-10-17
Timothy L. Woodruff, chairman of New York’s Republican state committee, assures President Roosevelt that he will see Oscar S. Straus at once. The labor vote will be with them more than they thought.
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1906-10-10