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President Roosevelt was impressed by the account of Lloyd Carpenter Griscom’s interview with King Victor Emmanuel III. He believes Edith Roosevelt will enjoy the account as well.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-04-22
President Roosevelt praises Nicholas Longworth’s interview and hoped those in the Taft camp possessed Longworth’s “sanity and judgement.”
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1907-04-11
President Roosevelt asks Ambassador Reid to arrange an interview with J. Armitage Robinson, Dean of Westminster, for his “old and valued friend” John Hampden Robb.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-04-11
President Roosevelt has received Nicholas Murray Butler’s letter. Roosevelt appreciates Butler telling him the truth about the interview he gave. He looks forward to seeing Butler in May.
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1907-04-06
Representatives from the Associated Press showed President Roosevelt an alleged interview with Bishop Henry Gabriels in which Gabriels supposedly quoted phrases of Roosevelt’s. While the words carried the Roosevelt’s general ideas, Roosevelt emphasized that the statements were not quotations, and should not be treated as such. He has since seen that the interview was nevertheless printed with the statements in quotation marks, and chides Melville Elijah Stone for presenting the statements in this way, even after receiving feedback from Roosevelt.
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1906-08-01
President Roosevelt does not understand what Bishop McDowell objects to in Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson’s statement of his attitude. The meat packing industry has behaved unwisely and has tried to prevent appropriate legislation, and Roosevelt believes that it is necessary for Wilson to make the packers understand that the government wants to see real improvement from them.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-07-11
President Roosevelt tells Arthur W. Little that he thinks an article about Seth Bullock like Little proposes would be interesting, but he does not think it would be possible to write it in the way Little hopes. Roosevelt proposes an alternate method of writing the article.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-04-09
John Brisben Walker is welcome to write about his interview with President Roosevelt, as long as he does not quote what he said without submitting it to him for approval first. Even with approval, Walker should not give his exact words, but only the substance of what he said.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-02-26
President Roosevelt refuses to grant another interview to Henry Melville Whitney, and says that in the letter requesting that interview Whitney once again misrepresented what he said. Whitney requested the interview to clear up alleged misrepresentations he had already made, but Roosevelt says that Whitney has used inaccurate language, misquoted him, and taken things he said out of context when he related a conversation they had nearly a year prior.
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1905-11-18
President Roosevelt thanks William McAdoo for the letter and for the interview.
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1904-10-25
President Roosevelt explains to Henry W. Taft that the federal government needs to tackle trusts and monopolies because using common law is not possible, and Senator Philander C. Knox, Attorney General William H. Moody, Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw, and Secretary of War William H. Taft all agree that the action is constitutional. Regarding American expansion in the Philippines and Cuba, Roosevelt states that Cuba has a measure of independence but not in its entirety, and that similar measures could be taken in the Philippines with certain safety precautions.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-09-28
President Roosevelt was pleased with Mr. Heath’s interview and had a pleasant time with Mr. Lorimer.
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1904-01-19
President Roosevelt thanks General Wheeler for the letter. He had seen the interview and assumed there was a mistake.
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1904-01-14
President Roosevelt denies giving an interview regarding Governor Odell’s visit.
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1903-08-26
President Roosevelt tells William Seward Webb that John A. Sleicher, of Judge and Leslie’s Weekly, would like an interview with Webb.
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1903-02-02
Vice President Roosevelt can meet with Claris Yeuell when he is in Alabama but he will not give an interview. Roosevelt is comfortable with any attacks he receives from the planned visit to Booker T. Washington at the Tuskegee Institute.
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1901-09-07
Vice President Roosevelt thanks John Barrett for the letter and clippings. The interview was excellent.
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1901-09-10
Vice President Roosevelt thanks M. A. Lesser for his kindness. The interview with the president must have been “very pleasant.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-08-28
Theodore Roosevelt will do everything he can to get George Bird Grinnell the interviews.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-12-18
