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President Roosevelt cannot write the kind of letter Andrew J. Corcoran requests. However, Roosevelt is pleased with the quality of Corcoran’s work on his windmill and will affirm this to anyone Corcoran refers to him.
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1907-08-29
President Roosevelt hopes that former Rough Rider Edward J. Bourke will be appointed captain by the New York Police Department, and says that he is welcome to show this letter to the current Commissioner.
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1907-01-12
On the recommendation of Commissioner of Corporations Garfield, President Roosevelt will offer the position of Commissioner of the Land Office to Richard Achilles Ballinger.
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1907-01-11
President Roosevelt writes Governor Hughes to say he’d heard Hughes was considering Charles Hallam Keep, the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, for a position. Roosevelt states that he would be sad to lose Keep, but that he is extremely qualified for the job. The President offers to invite Keep to an upcoming dinner scheduled between Roosevelt and Hughes.
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1906-12-07
President Roosevelt encloses a confidential letter from Mr. Hanna, “the Gold Democrat,” about John W. Fries. Roosevelt would like to know if Alexander Boyd Andrews agrees with Hanna’s assessment.
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1901-10-21
President Roosevelt will take up the El Paso, Texas, collectorship and requests a recommendation from William H. H. Llewellyn.
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1901-10-19
President Roosevelt requests Frank B. Klepper’s assistance in identifying individuals who can be depended upon when it comes to making appointments. Roosevelt welcomes opinions for or against any official or candidate for office in the parts of Missouri with which Klepper is familiar.
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1901-10-19
President Roosevelt asks Richard G. Holmes to send him a letter outlining his military and civil service, along with recommendations from three or four businessmen and General Irving Hale.
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1901-10-19
President Roosevelt would like professional letters of recommendation for Henry C. McDowell. When John Fox Jr. is next in Washington, D.C., he should take lunch or dinner with Roosevelt.
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1901-10-19
President Roosevelt would like General Davis’s opinion on Captain Street. As Secretary of War Elihu Root is absent, Davis should inform Assistant Secretary William Cary Sanger that Roosevelt has asked for Davis’s assistance in the matter.
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1901-10-19
President Roosevelt would like John Nicholas Simpson’s opinion on the character and qualifications of anyone up for reappointment to a federal office in Texas.
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1901-10-16
President Roosevelt would like to appoint a Lutheran Chaplain in the Army, and asks Senator Spooner of Wisconsin if he can suggest anyone.
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1901-10-09
President Roosevelt hopes to appoint a Lutheran Chaplain in the Army, and asks Senator Nelson of Minnesota if he can recommend a good Scandinavian candidate for such a position.
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1901-10-09
In a few months there will be vacancies in the chaplaincies of the Army, and President Roosevelt would like to appoint a young Dutch Reformed Minister to one of these positions. He asks President Gerrit J. Kollen of Hope College if he can recommend any such person.
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1901-10-09
President Roosevelt is looking for people in Arkansas who will tell him “without partisan prejudices whether a candidate is a good one, whether there is a better man to be found, and which of any given number of supplicants is the best,” and asks John Campbell Greenway to forward this letter to his father, Gilbert Christian Greenway, in the hope that he will be able to provide such assistance.
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1901-10-09
President Roosevelt is seeking a new postmaster for Brooklyn, New York, and would like to know St. Clair McKelway’s opinion of potential candidate George H. Roberts.
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1901-10-08
President Roosevelt would like Archbishop Corrigan to recommend a priest who can be appointed chaplain in the army.
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1901-10-05
President Roosevelt would like Reverend Doyle to recommend a Catholic, of not more than 35 years of age, who could be appointed as chaplain in the Navy.
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1901-10-01
Mr. Tracy has requested that his application be withdrawn. Senator Burton recommends J. S. Dean for the position and will present endorsements from officials and leading lawyers in Kansas. Pending satisfactory endorsements, President Roosevelt would like Dean to be appointed.
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1901-09-30
Oliver Conklin asks Theodore Roosevelt if he can secure a position in a police force in Oyster Bay. Conklin has experience as a special officer in Boro Park and thinks his expertise would be useful.
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1911-10-09