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President Roosevelt asks John A. Sleicher to please show the four articles by Charles M. Harvey to Chairman of the Republican National Committee Frank H. Hitchcock as potential campaign materials, and says he is glad the situation surrounding the New York Governorship is going well.
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1908-09-14
President Roosevelt tells William H. Taft that his playing golf is causing a public stir, and he hopes Taft will avoid it until after the election. Roosevelt agrees with Jones on the religious topic, and sends a letter from John Sleicher with an article by Charles M. Harvey, which might garner support among Jewish voters. Roosevelt feels the East will see a mostly positive political outcome, with the railroad situation being handled fairly and a top man being put in charge at the Chicago headquarters.
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1908-09-14
President Roosevelt has not seen the attack on him in Harper’s Weekly to which Fred L. Gray refers, but he pays no more mind to what Charles M. Harvey writes than anything in the New York Sun or Post.
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1908-08-10
President Roosevelt sends Lyman Abbott two letters indicating a plan to sell editorial columns for advertising purposes by Harper’s Weekly.
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1908-08-10
President Roosevelt thanks Lawrence F. Abbott for sending him proofs of the articles that he has written. He will send Abbott two more articles to review. Roosevelt would appreciate if the offices of The Outlook would handle his mail while he is on safari in Africa, as he does not wish to answer letters while he is there. Roosevelt is glad that Abbott likes what he wrote about Delavan Smith, William MacKay Laffan, “and company,” and comments on the strangeness of journalism and colleges of journalism.
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1908-12-08
President Roosevelt will be pleased to attend the gathering that Robert J. Collier proposes, but requests that it be a lunch. He wants to spend time with his wife, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, before his upcoming African safari. Roosevelt does not care for two of the guests, Charles M. Harvey and Richard Croker, but thinks it would be foolish to refuse to meet either man.
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1908-12-02
President Roosevelt is concerned about what James A. Sleicher tells him about the attitude of the Jews, as he had thought they were favorable. Roosevelt believes that it was only the lack of funds that stopped Charles M. Harvey’s articles from being published. He believes that when New York Governor Charles Evans Hughes returns to the state, he will end up ahead.
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1908-10-12
Through a series of excerpts from personal letters, President Roosevelt refutes reports in The New York Sun and Harper’s Weekly that Grover Cleveland had never been offered a position on the Anthracite Coal Strike Commission. President Roosevelt argues that in fact Cleveland was offered the position and accepted it, and describes the details of the incident.
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1908-08-06
Fred L. Gray sends Theodore Roosevelt a pamphlet he recently wrote on the subject of Workmen’s Compensation, as a previous letter from Roosevelt suggested he would be interested in reading about such a topic.
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1911-02-24
John A. Sleicher thanks President Roosevelt for his expression on the tariff question and states that he thinks Roosevelt is the only person able to effectively wield the “big stick” during crises. Sleicher also alerts Roosevelt to remarks recently made by Charles M. Harvey, who said that even though Roosevelt might be sincere in saying he does not want the nomination, conditions might force him to accept it nonetheless.
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1906-08-15
Lawrence F. Abbott thinks it is interesting that colleges, which are so strong in their teaching of science, can be so weak in their teaching of literature and journalism. He asks if President Roosevelt knows whether he will be attending an editorial conference on March 10 or March 17, as his father, Lyman Abbott, will be out of the country for a time but wishes to return to attend the same session as Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-10