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President Roosevelt asks Attorney General Bonaparte if the matter William Dudley Foulke wrote about could be looked into by “some confidential agent.”
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1907-02-16
President Roosevelt reveled in the letter from Commissioner of Indian Affairs Leupp. Roosevelt believes that “beloved friend” William Dudley Foulke should not be appointed to the office, which he would likely not want.
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1906-10-10
President Roosevelt sends Ambassador White a self-explanatory letter for him to read and return relating to some of the recent furor surrounding former Secretary of Legation Francis Augustus MacNutt. Former diplomat Archibald Loudon Snowden accused MacNutt of showing official correspondence with foreign representatives. Snowden agreed to retract his statement, but has subsequently refused to do so. Roosevelt largely knows about MacNutt from reports of Bellamy Storer and Maria Longworth Storer, and while he relies on them less, still comments that his personal impression of MacNutt is unfavorable.
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1906-07-24
President Roosevelt introduces Ambassador White to William Dudley Foulke, an ex-Civil Service Commissioner who Roosevelt counts as a close friend, and believes is “one of the best men in all the United States.”
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1906-06-04
President Roosevelt tells Outlook editor Lyman Abbott that “William Dudley Foulke is as good an Outlook man as I am,” and that Foulke was struck by Abbott’s editorial about Roosevelt’s “muck-rake speech.” Roosevelt believes that the Outlook is working for the same goals he is, and was therefore disappointed in the article because “it was hammering just at the moment when it ought to have helped.”
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1906-04-25
President Roosevelt thanks Erman J. Ridgway for his letter and says he feels a deep sense of responsibility and will rise to the occasion.
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1904-11-11
President Roosevelt believes that John Hay “would cut his throat” if asked to make a dozen speeches on the east side of New York City. Roosevelt has struggled to get him to give any speech in New York. Roosevelt would prefer if Hay would speak at Cooper Union rather than Carnegie Hall for the one speech he will be giving.
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1904-10-12
President Roosevelt tells N. B. Scott that clerks have the right to go home to vote. Roosevelt realizes that New York is a difficult state to win and believes one of the best approaches may be emphasizing what the administration has done in foreign matters. Roosevelt is concerned about the situation in Wisconsin with the “bolting Republican organization.”
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1904-10-07
President Roosevelt sends Julius M. Mayer information on the Democrats who are supporting his reelection. Roosevelt would like to see meetings taking place on the east side of New York.
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1904-10-07
In a confidential letter, President Roosevelt discusses Morgan’s letter and asks Secretary of State Hay to give his regards to Shank. Roosevelt then discusses his concerns about Russia and the Vladivostok fleet whom he fears may seize an American ship. Roosevelt wants Hay to think about their response in such a situation; Roosevelt is inclined to write a polite but firm letter saying the U.S. will not stand for it and to move the Asiatic Squadron northward.
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1904-07-29
President Roosevelt introduces his friend, William Dudley Foulke. He requests that Consul Bliss assist Foulke with his studies.
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1904-04-28
President Roosevelt asks Ambassador Meyer to extend courtesy to his friend, William Dudley Foulke.
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1905-04-23
President Roosevelt would like Representative Gillett to get letters from William Dudley Foulke and James Rudolph Garfield regarding “exceptions” into the Congressional Record.
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1904-04-18
President Roosevelt has been discussing the judgeship matter with William Dudley Foulke and is bringing it before Attorney General Knox today.
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1901-11-01
President Roosevelt is glad Josephine Shaw Lowell likes the appointment of William Dudley Foulke. He met with the American Purity Alliance and Dr. Gregory.
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1901-10-25
Eben Weaver Martin discusses Theodore Roosevelt’s idea of giving the Bureau of Corporations power to fix commodity prices and control output when unlawful monopolies control them. He believes there needs to be a thorough system of national control preventing monopolies from organizing while removing the “powers of evil” of existing ones.
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1911-01-31
Russell B. Harrison has received President Roosevelt’s request for him to return a letter concerning Delevan Smith, and does so with haste. Harrison says that he has treated the letter as a private communication, as Roosevelt requested. He explains his recommendation that the letter not be shown to Smith, as he owns a newspaper which could potentially attack Roosevelt. Harrison and other Indiana Republicans have been disgusted by the actions of the Indianapolis News. Harrison regrets that he did not mention his desire for a position at a time when he needed one, but he wanted the suggestion to come from Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-09
Attorney General Bonaparte has received and now returns the letter and clipping from William Dudley Foulke.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-03-20
Richard Henry Dana tells Elliott H. Goodwin that he thinks they should find out what William Dudley Foulke thinks about Goodwin’s idea to investigate presidential appointments. If Foulke is willing to conduct the investigation, they might be able to bring elements of the situation to light, and advance the cause of civil service reform.
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1908-02-20
Papal Chamberlain Francis Augustus MacNutt wants to explain to Henry White about William Dudley Foulke’s suggestion that he “correct certain calumnies spread against me in Rome.” MacNutt knows that White intends to speak with the Portuguese Ambassador to the Vatican, M. d’Antas, who has been MacNutt’s loyal friend. The Austrian Ambassador Count Nikolaus Szécsen von Temerlin has received misguided information that needs correcting. MacNutt worries that President Roosevelt has been misled concerning MacNutt’s conduct and reputation and that only Roosevelt can correct the injury done to his character.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-09-03