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Theodore Roosevelt shows interest in a letter from Joseph Bucklin Bishop and wishes he could have listened to an interview.
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1915-04-02
Theodore Roosevelt makes changes to the topics of an interview he is giving Vira Boarman Whitehouse, saying he thinks little of parades and does not wish to discuss his previous statements about people getting tired of him. Roosevelt also asks Whitehouse to determine which parts of one of his speeches she wants to use. He expresses pleasure at having met her one recent evening.
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1915-03-18
Theodore Roosevelt will not give journalism student Gerald B. Spiero an interview. Roosevelt has already discussed the matter in public and refers Spiero to Frances Kellor in New York who may be able to help him.
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1915-03-24
Theodore Roosevelt does not believe that he willl be able to give Helene Lalla Vandervelde that interview, but asks that she write out what she wishes to say and he will give her a definite answer. He asks if she can visit him.
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1915-03-29
Theodore Roosevelt declines to give American women’s suffrage activist Vira Boarman Whitehouse an interview. Roosevelt is taking a hiatus, of perhaps a year, from giving political speeches or interviews, although he will make an exception for cases like a benefit for the New York unemployed where he had spoken recently.
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1915-03-05
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary confirms the date and time that Roosevelt can meet with Emeric De Szelnar. The secretary also instructs De Szelnar that any topic discussed during the appointment is private and not to be quoted publicly.
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1915-03-12
Theodore Roosevelt asks Mark Sullivan if he had the same impression of Woodrow Wilson after the interview he gave. Roosevelt believes Wilson “is neither a gentleman nor a real man.”
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1915-02-19
Theodore Roosevelt introduces Helene Lalla Vandervelde to Guy Thomas Viskniskki. Vandervelde has been sent to the U.S. by the Belgian king. Roosevelt asks Viskniskki to give Vandervelde an interview. She can do the kind of work he desires.
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1915-02-23
Theodore Roosevelt believes that Roberts, who falsely attributed information to Roosevelt in an interview, is an “astounding scoundrel.”
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1915-02-06
Theodore Roosevelt remembers the interview with Mayor Thomas very well and would like to see him any time he is in New York.
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1915-01-16
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Charles O’Neil for the clipping. Roosevelt remembers now about the Gathman gun project, but had forgotten the interview with Mr. McMullen.
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1915-01-16
Theodore Roosevelt has nothing to add to his article and therefore will not give an interview.
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1915-01-07
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Laura d’Oremieulx Roosevelt for the letters and is interested in an interview.
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1914-12-16
President Roosevelt is glad the furor over the results of some of the Olympic games is dying down, and specifically remarks on the results of the marathon. Additionally, Roosevelt explains to Ambassador Reid the situation surrounding a newspaper interview with German Emperor William II. William Bayard Hale petitioned the White House to help with gaining admission to the Kaiser, which was refused, but persisted in getting access. The resulting interview spoke on a number of sensitive matters and “lookt like a pipe dream,” and while Roosevelt believed it was accurate, advised the New York Times not to publish it.
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1909-01-06
President Roosevelt informs President-Elect Taft that Representative James A. Tawney recently visited him and wished to arrange an interview between Taft and Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon. Roosevelt thinks this meeting is important, and would like to speak to Taft when he gets to Washington, D.C., to present the facts as he sees them.
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1908-11-28
President Roosevelt cannot give an interview for Daniel Carter Beard. Anything written must be Beard’s responsibility, and if he interviewed Roosevelt, Roosevelt would be responsible for what he said.
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1908-11-01
President Roosevelt cannot give Ray Stannard Baker the letter he suggests. He has made such a request to an ambassador only one time, and the it proved impossible and put him in an embarrassing position. As such, Roosevelt does not attempt to grant anyone access to heads of state if there is a chance they will write about the interview.
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1908-05-19
President Roosevelt thanks Justice Newburger for writing and assures him that he knew that there was “nothing in that alleged interview” he gave.
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1908-04-14
President Roosevelt liked John Lawrence Sullivan’s interview, and asks to see him whenever he comes to Washington, D.C..
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1908-02-27
President Roosevelt thanks Andrew Carnegie for a clipping of Carnegie’s interview. Roosevelt appreciates Carnegie defending him against George Brinton McClellan Harvey, who recently attacked Roosevelt in the European press, but believes Carnegie attaches more importance to Harvey than Roosevelt does. Roosevelt is more concerned about keeping peace with Japan than with the International Peace Conference underway at The Hague.
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1907-07-15