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Secretary of State Root writes to President Roosevelt regarding a report from William J. Calhoun, and additions Calhoun wants to add for clarity. The report is likely relating to recent work Calhoun was doing in Venezuela to resolve a dispute there.
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1906-02-02
Theodore Roosevelt tells Professor Osborn that he is pleased with J. A. Allen’s comments and accepts his list of contents. He wonders whether Osborn’s statement about not being able to make any further corrections also means that the changes he mentioned to Frank M. Chapman last month, particularly the footnotes answering Abbott Handerson Thayer’s Popular Science article, can be adopted. He would be very sorry if the corrections to the galley could not be made and would like to know more. He is also writing to Chapman.
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1911-07-11
President Roosevelt returns some documents to Lawrence F. Abbott to avoid continuing to tweak them without any significant benefits. The articles should be published sometime during the six months after Roosevelt leaves the presidency.
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1908-12-28
President Roosevelt thanks Thomas R. Lounsbury for the letter and paragraph on William H. Taft. Roosevelt returns the paragraph with corrections. Roosevelt comments about an action of Congress that is similar to when it overturned his order removing the phrase “In God we trust” from coins.
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1908-06-26
President Roosevelt thanks Albert Shaw for his work on the volumes of addresses and messages. Roosevelt enjoyed Shaw’s visit.
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1908-03-19
President Roosevelt comments on a quotation that William Dudley Foulke used, and says that there is no contradiction, as Foulke had suggested. Roosevelt says that he has not appointed anyone for the purpose of promoting Secretary of War William H. Taft’s candidacy, but has appointed people in recognition of sentiment for Taft that already existed.
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1908-02-03
President Roosevelt tells Professor Joseph Dunn that he made most of the changes to his article that Dunn suggested and explains his reasoning for those that he did not.
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1906-05-26
President Roosevelt invites Father Doyle to read a draft of the speech he plans to deliver to the Mother’s Congress and return it with comments and suggestions.
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1905-02-28
President Roosevelt asks Florence La Farge to read a draft of the speech he plans to deliver to the Mother’s Congress, and return it with comments and suggestions.
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1905-02-28
William E. Coffin sends Theodore Roosevelt copies of the Honor and High Honor list as they will appear in a publication of the Camp Fire Club of America, and invites Roosevelt to make any corrections necessary.
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1911-03-10
Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou offers President Roosevelt some suggestions on how to word his reply to Assistant Postmaster General Frank H. Hitchcock’s letter of resignation. Cortelyou wants to make sure that, while Hitchcock reserves all due praise, the efforts of his assistants do not get ignored.
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1908-02-17
John A. Sleicher thinks that political platform speeches at state conventions need reworking considering “the new conditions that now affect us.” Sleicher sends President Roosevelt a draft of the platform and asks if he might make edits and return it to him tomorrow at the United States Hotel in Saratoga.
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1906-09-22
Robert Bridges encloses a reply from the Biological Survey regarding Colorado squirrels, and has decided upon the name armatus for them.
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1905-08-21
This portion of the United States Congressional Record documents a conversation pertaining to a proposed joint resolution directing Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte to act on a matter related to grants of land in Oregon made to railroad companies. Some amendments to the resolution were made, including the removal of the preamble.
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1908-02-21
Charles Dudley Warner congratulates Theodore Roosevelt on his book Winning of the West.
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1889-07-17