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President Roosevelt asks Representative Sherman to attend to the management of the Republican National Committee. He hears many complaints such as that recounted in the letter from a prominent Republican, which Roosevelt quotes from.
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1908-09-05
President Roosevelt forwards Chairman Shonts a letter from W. H. Needham containing statements from machinists at the Canal Zone regarding complaints about their treatment. Roosevelt tells Shonts and Chief Engineer John F. Stevens that they must get past their natural “impatience with complaints” and judge the issue evenly as government employees.
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1906-12-10
President Roosevelt asks Lieutenant Goethals, Chairman of the Isthmian Canal Commission, to look into R. R. Bowker’s complaints against the commissariat. Roosevelt encloses the letter from Bowker with instructions to take criticism seriously.
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1907-04-02
President Roosevelt sent Richmond Pearson to see Silas McBee. Roosevelt believes Pearson is a man of high character and would like to see a man like him lead the Republican Party in the South.
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1904-08-12
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt expresses his disappointment in a correspondent at the Chicago Tribune. Roosevelt provided a report to the correspondent with instructions it was not to be published until Sunday, but the correspondent used the report on Saturday.
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1897-08-21
President-elect Taft encloses a letter from Sir Harry Johnston about the dreadful conditions at the Hotel Imperial in Colón, and his own reply. He found Johnston’s decision to complain at length about his personal discomfort to another country’s head of state perplexing. Taft’s wife, Helen Herron Taft, did not share his “intense amusement” at Johnston’s “extremely English” tone. Taft also encloses the self-explanatory letter he wrote to President Jose Domingo de Obaldia of Panama after a call from Obaldia’s competitor, Ricardo Arias. Taft is disgusted by Representative Henry Thomas Rainey’s “diatribes” in the House of Representatives.
Norman Hapgood expresses his displeasure regarding an accusation of falsehood he states President Roosevelt made about him.
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1906-07-09
Anna Knight sends a letter in French with a complaint against the conduct of American citizen General Clay. An additional letter in German asks Theodore Roosevelt to help bring the complaint to the proper source.
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1911-04-06
William J. Long writes an open letter to President Theodore Roosevelt, demanding that Roosevelt retract his attacks against Long’s work, particularly a story about a wolf killing a caribou, which Roosevelt calls “mathematically impossible.” Long includes statements from witnesses attesting to his honesty.
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1907-05-29
Commander Turner reports that he received a complaint from General Daniel Ortiz, delivered to him by General Rafael Novo.
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1903-12-15
William A. Day returns to Secretary of Commerce and Labor Cortelyou a letter from President Roosevelt to Cortelyou regarding a complaint filed against the Public Printer, Mr. Palmer. Day informs Cortelyou that Palmer has received a copy of the complaint.
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1903-07-06