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President Roosevelt updates Secretary of War Taft on travel arrangements for their upcoming trip to Panama and comments on Taft’s tariff speech. He advises Taft to write a temperate letter for publication in response to Herbert Ross’s recent article.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-09-01
Lindsay Denison of Everybody’s Magazine is visiting the Panama Isthmus to report on what has been done and is being done on the canal. He asks the Isthmian Canal Commission to give Denison as much information as possible and to tell him the truth, “whether it hurts or not.” As long as the truth is not distorted, Roosevelt will ensure that no one is harmed for telling truth.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-01-11
President Roosevelt is interested in Lindsay Dennison accompanying him on his upcoming trip.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-08-12
President Roosevelt would like Attorney General Bonaparte to read the enclosed letter and speak with him about it.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-11-05
Secretary of War Taft has received President Roosevelt’s letter and agrees with Roosevelt’s thoughts about who to appoint to fill the circuit judgeship. Taft sends a copy of a speech to Roosevelt for suggestions and makes some remarks about its contents. He also notifies Roosevelt about a “sinister article on the Philippines” that has been published in Collier’s Weekly. Taft also encloses a letter on Panama he had received for Roosevelt to read.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-08-28
Theodore P. Shonts discusses the proposed restructuring of the Panama Railroad Co.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-04-01
Lindsay Denison requests credentials from President Roosevelt, Secretary of War Taft, and Secretary of State Root to travel to Panama to research an article for Everybody’s Magazine. Denison will be traveling with the magazine publisher Erman J. Ridgeway.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-01
Carr Vattel Van Anda, editor of the New York Sun, agrees to send Lindsay Denison on the trip with President Roosevelt, per Roosevelt’s request.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-08-14
James Denison’s son, Lindsay Denison, wrote the pamphlet against political corruption that has been effective in the fight for reform in New York.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-11-01