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President Roosevelt asks Charles D. Wolcott to inform J. Alden Loring and Edmund Heller that they are not supposed to write anything for publication regarding Roosevelt’s African safari until after Roosevelt’s book and articles are published, and that this includes making sure that any of their letters home to their families are not published.
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1909-01-03
President Roosevelt instructs Secretary of the Navy Metcalf to issue an order to the members of the Newport Conference, as well as to other officers for whom it may be relevant, that no officer is to discuss any question of naval policy with the public without first confirming it with the Secretary of the Navy or the President.
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1908-11-26
William Loeb sends Secretary of War Taft a letter from President Roosevelt concerning Colonel T. W. Symons. Roosevelt wants the letter to be treated as personal, and for it not to be put in the files of the War Department.
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1908-06-09
President Roosevelt assures C. Grant La Farge that there was no need for his letter. He understands that conversations get repeated and reach the public “in twisted form.”
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1908-04-15
President Roosevelt was “rather disturbed” by John Temple Graves’s telegram to William Loeb. Roosevelt says he can be completely frank with Graves, but only with the understanding that it never be repeated. Roosevelt says it will always be a pleasure to see Graves.
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1907-06-22
President Roosevelt informs Saburo Kawaguchi that he was satisfied by Kawaguchi’s judo classes and finds judo impressive.
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1907-05-24
President Roosevelt expresses his concern about Senator William Edgar Borah’s alleged connections to timber stealing and the potential impact on the Haywood-Moyer murder trial.
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1907-05-08
President Roosevelt sends Senator Warren a draft of the message he believes should be given in response to the Committee on Department Methods should they seek to release their report on the Department of Interior, which Roosevelt believes should remain confidential.
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1907-02-12
President Roosevelt has shown Charles Nagel’s correspondence to Francis E. Leupp, who then wrote the letter Roosevelt now sends to Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock. Roosevelt asks Hitchcock to have Nagel speak with “Mr. Foulks” and Leupp before updating him, while “keeping the whole matter quiet of course!”
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1907-02-15
President Roosevelt adds to his previous letter that what he says is confidential and should not be shared with the public.
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1906-11-28
President Roosevelt encloses a confidential memorandum from Germany Ambassador Hermann Speck von Sternburg. Roosevelt asks Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte not to file it with the Navy Department then send it back to Roosevelt.
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1906-11-06
President Roosevelt asks Attorney General Moody to meet with Senator Boies Penrose, and to go over a particular situation with two men who Penrose will tell him about.
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1906-08-06
President Roosevelt confidentially tells Jacob H. Schiff that the United States has already “gone up to the very verge of receiving a rebuff that would put us in a very undignified and unpleasant position” in its effort to do as Schiff suggests. Roosevelt does not wish to put the particulars in writing, and would not like to be quoted on the matter.
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1906-06-26
President Roosevelt forwards Alexander Lambert a confidential letter from Secretary of War William H. Taft with the understanding that it is for his private information only.
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1906-05-21
President Roosevelt “emphatically request[s]” that Professor Hugo Münsterberg never quote a private conversation with him. Roosevelt says Münsterberg has misquoted him in his recent speech, and even if he had not, it would be “unpardonable” to quote the President at all.
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1905-03-18
President Roosevelt asks that editor and publisher Robert J. Collier treat this letter with confidentiality. Roosevelt thinks Cyrus Packard Walbridge is the better candidate for Missouri Governor than Joseph Wingate Folk, although he has never said so publicly. Any comments made by William Allen White about Roosevelt changing his opinion of Folk are “arrant nonsense.” Folk had compromised his potential by appearing on the ticket with “boodlers” (those who obtain money dishonestly). It should be assumed that the president does not intervene in state matters, but if he did, he would support his party, not a Democratic candidate.
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1904-10-20
President Roosevelt agrees in general with Hubert W. Eldred that a practical movement for a cavalry troop is a worthwhile idea. Should Eldred muster enough militia members for a cavalry troop from the residents of Nassau County, Roosevelt’s home county, the President would be pleased. While he wishes Eldred success, however, he does not give him permission to publish this letter.
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1904-10-20
President Roosevelt thinks Joseph Bucklin Bishop’s letter was very interesting. Roosevelt destroyed it after reading per Bishop’s request.
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1904-10-14
President Roosevelt finds value in Judge Campbell’s letter, and he will send it confidentially to George B. Cortelyou.
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1904-10-14
President Roosevelt has spoken with George B. Cortelyou, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, about the subject in William Duncan Connor’s letter. Roosevelt believes that the Republican National Party should stay out of the “fight within the party in Wisconsin” and should only stand for the National Republican Party.
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1904-10-06