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President Roosevelt seeks the opinion of Nicholas Murray Butler concerning a recent letter by Mr. Rosewater. Roosevelt asks if he should change his acceptance speech in response to the way his “general attitude towards labor” was portrayed by Rosewater.
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1904-07-20
President Roosevelt has sent Judge John Campbell’s letter to George B. Cortelyou, Chairman of the Republican National Committee. Roosevelt agrees with Campbell’s suggestion to send a national committeeman to Colorado.
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1904-07-21
President Roosevelt informs Secretary of War Taft that he hopes Maria Longworth Storer quits her professional sectarian business or gets Bellamy Storer to leave public life and affirms that Taft is right in paying her no attention. Maria Storer’s meddling makes Roosevelt uncomfortable during the Merry del Val business, and mentions that the death of Archbishop Giovanni Battista Guidi gives Taft even more reason to write. Roosevelt wishes Taft would lay it before George B. Cortelyou. Roosevelt is returning Smith’s letter and enclosing a letter to him.
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1904-07-11
President Roosevelt agrees with General Howard and recognizes that this will be a hard fight and that they cannot afford to take any chances. Roosevelt has sent Howard’s letter to George Cortelyou, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, since Howard “can be of literally invaluable service” to Cortelyou.
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1904-06-29
President Roosevelt has forwarded Senator Penrose’s letter to Secretary of Commerce and Labor Metcalf and will speak with him and George B. Cortelyou, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, about the vacant Commissioner of Manufacturers position.
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1904-07-01
President Roosevelt is frustrated at the newspapers for condemning the Republicans for their view on sound money. The Democrats’ candidate is boasting that he has supported the cause of free silver in the last two elections. Roosevelt believes that his campaign has no apology to make.
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1904-07-11
President Roosevelt congratulates Senator Lodge on the platform and comments that the convention “went off well.” Roosevelt was surprised at the outbreak of feeling against Secretary of Commerce and Labor and Chairman of the Republican National Committee Cortelyou. There is “little active part” that Roosevelt can take in the campaign, except for his speech and letter of acceptance.
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1904-06-25
President Roosevelt thanks Hamlin Garland for his recent letter. Roosevelt expresses pleasure that Garland will write to George Cortelyou.
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1904-06-27
President Roosevelt informs Senator Frye that Cornelius Newton Bliss has refused the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee. George B. Cortelyou is the next best choice for the position.
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1904-06-17
President Roosevelt has offered a Cabinet position to Paul Morton. He did not know that Crane would be willing to take a Cabinet position, or he would have offered him George B. Cortelyou’s position. Roosevelt also tells Senator Lodge that he likes Meredith Townsend’s book.
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1904-06-17
President Roosevelt asks George von Lengerke Meyer to tell him who is opposing Cortelyou for Chairman of the Republican National Committee and wants von Lengerke Meyer to report what the opposition is saying. Roosevelt considers opposition to Cortelyou disloyalty to the Republican party and asks von Lengerke Meyer to communicate as much.
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1904-06-17
President Roosevelt is pleased with the political situation in the city and the country in New York, and thinks that they will do well there.
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1904-06-17
President Roosevelt urges Colonel Woodard to communicate with Republican National Committee Chairman George B. Cortelyou before having any men take any steps, because that is “the right way to begin the campaign.”
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1904-06-13
It seems probable that George B. Cortelyou will be made Chairman of the National Committee, and President Roosevelt wants Victor Howard Metcalf to replace Cortelyou as Secretary of the Department of Commerce and Labor.
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1904-06-14
President Roosevelt addresses the issue of tariff revision in Elihu Root’s speech to the Republican National Convention. Roosevelt also discusses the cabinet members that he feels may leave and whom he should appoint if that does happen. Roosevelt welcomes recommendations of possible candidates should Root think of anyone.
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1904-06-14
President Roosevelt notifies Representative Metcalf that he intends to nominate him to succeed George B. Cortelyou as Secretary of Commerce and Labor. However, he does not intend to keep Metcalf there permanently. Roosevelt intends, if elected, to eventually nominate him as either Secretary of the Navy or the Army.
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1904-06-16
President Roosevelt urges Cornelius Newton Bliss to arrive in Chicago, Illinois, by Sunday morning and explain that Roosevelt’s selection of George B. Cortelyou is “definite and irrevocable.”
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1904-06-17
President Roosevelt seeks Marvin Hughitt’s opinion on Representative Victor Howard Metcalf. Roosevelt is considering Metcalf for Secretary of Commerce and Labor when George B. Cortelyou becomes Chairman of the Republican National Committee.
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1904-06-06
President Roosevelt thanks Colonel Woodard for his letter, and agrees with him about the appointment of George B. Cortelyou as Chairman of the Republican National Committee. Roosevelt notes that Cortelyou is friends with Elihu Root and will run the election campaign according to the principles Roosevelt has applied to his own presidency. Roosevelt also appreciates Woodard’s assessment of the political situation in Wisconsin, about which Roosevelt had felt apprehensive.
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1904-06-06
President Roosevelt thinks that Representative Grosvenor is right about George B. Cortelyou and that he has “expressed it most generously and happily.”
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1904-06-09