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Horace White asks Senator Platt for help in convincing President Roosevelt to transfer William Blumenthal and Lewis Einstein to new diplomatic posts.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-01-17
William Blumenthal, currently the First Secretary in Lisbon, asks Senator Platt to consider transferring him to the position of Third Secretary in Paris should a vacancy become open at that embassy.
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1905-01-17
David L. Einstein asks Cornelius Newton Bliss to recommend career advancement for his son, Lewis Einstein, who is in the diplomatic corps. Bliss wrote a postscript on page 3 for George B. Cortelyou’s attention, encouraging action to oblige Einstein’s request.
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1904-11-25
President Roosevelt would like to see Justice Holmes soon to talk over “a million or two things” that they left unsaid. He is glad Holmes approved of Lewis Einstein’s promotion, for which Roosevelt made a “special case of interference with the State Department.” Roosevelt has great regard for Einstein’s diplomatic and literary work.
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1908-11-21
President Roosevelt tells Lucius Nathan Littauer that Lewis Einstein’s superior, Philip Marshall Brown, was promoted because he was entitled to the promotion. Roosevelt understands that Einstein is now in line for promotion.
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1907-07-06
President Roosevelt is not sure where Lewis Einstein stands in the line of succession for promotion among other embassy secretaries, but he will inquire with Assistant Secretary of State Robert Bacon.
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1907-07-02
President Roosevelt informs Caroline Fatman Einstein that her son Lewis Einstein will not have to resign his post, and will be sent to Turkey as Second Secretary.
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1906-02-26
President Roosevelt asks Senator Platt to tell Frank that he is relieved that they were able to give Lewis Einstein a post with the diplomatic service in Turkey. He believes that Einstein is “exceptionally able,” and does not think that the trouble with him reflected upon him personally, even though it made it impossible for him to stay in his current post.
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1906-02-27
President Roosevelt is unsure if William Blumenthal can be transferred. He will carefully consider Senator Platt’s thoughts on Commissioner of Patents Frederick Innes Allen. While John Clay Davies is a good man, Roosevelt feels William D. Murphy is more qualified for the assistant secretary of the Treasury position.
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1905-01-20
President Roosevelt was pleased to give Caroline Fatman Einstein’s son the appointment and will read his essay with pleasure.
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1903-06-08
President Roosevelt thanks Caroline Fatman Einstein for sending him the book written by her son, Lewis Einstein. He asks if Lewis desires a diplomatic appointment.
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1903-02-17
Secretary of State Root informs Hermann Speck von Sternburg of the individuals representing the United States Government at the Moroccan Conference.
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1905-11-24
Joe F. Decker provides a comprehensive bibliography of the various accounts of Theodore Roosevelt’s attempt to form a volunteer division during World War I. Decker begins with Roosevelt’s own first account in 1917 and concludes with John Milton Cooper’s version in The Warrior and the Priest of 1983. Decker examines books, book chapters, and articles on the subject, and finds that the story still has not been “dealt with satisfactorily.” Decker points out the biases and the shortcomings of some of the authors, and notes that many of the accounts strongly favor either Roosevelt or his antagonist President Woodrow Wilson.
A full page-photograph of Roosevelt and General Leonard Wood accompanies the article. A photograph of Harrison Engle and Sidney D. Kirkpatrick who directed documentary films on Roosevelt is featured, along with three photographs of Roosevelt from newsreel footage used in the film The Indomitable Teddy Roosevelt.
A listing of the officers of the Theodore Roosevelt Association as well as the members of its executive, finance, and Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace committees is on page two of the article.
Caroline Fatman Einstein sends President Roosevelt a copy of her son Lewis’s first book, The Italian Renaissance in England.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-02-17