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President Roosevelt thanks Allen W. Thurman. Roosevelt would greatly like to see the speech about president Andrew Jackson.
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1909-03-03
President Roosevelt tells Andrew Dickson White that he has asked the Superintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds Chas. S. Bromwell to put in an inscription on a statue of former president Andrew Jackson. Roosevelt expresses agreement with White’s views on the erasure of names as political parties gain and lose power.
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1909-02-27
President Roosevelt thanks Mary R. Wilcox for helping make up the collection of Presidential china by sending pieces used during President Andrew Jackson’s administration.
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1908-07-02
President Roosevelt tells Adèle Le Bourgeois Chapin that he likes the speech given by Earl Grey, governor of Canada, and thinks that it would be a good thing for Americans to unite for the purpose that Grey mentions. He thinks, however, that it would have to be a private action, as Congress is reluctant to act even on things that should be simple.
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1908-02-17
President Roosevelt appreciates what Stella McKnight Hoffa Lake says about “children instead of dogs and clubs are the fashion.” Roosevelt also professes his admiration of President Andrew Jackson, and his assessment of Jackson has only increased since becoming president himself.
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1907-10-23
President Roosevelt tells Allen W. Thurman that his feelings were not hurt by a comparison of him to President Andrew Jackson by a third party. He thanks Thurman for sending him clippings from a speech given by his father, Senator Charles H. Thurman of Ohio, and asks for a copy of a speech by Governor Allen.
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1907-06-29
President Roosevelt would be glad for Opie Read to dedicate his book to him, and comments that he is pleased to have his name “coupled with Andrew Jackson’s.” While Roosevelt does not put Jackson on the same level as Abraham Lincoln, he has “a hearty respect for Old Hickory.”
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1906-08-13
President Roosevelt is amused by the quotation that John Spencer Bassett found, and wonders what the “howlers” about the incident with Booker T. Washington would have said if they knew that something similar happened under Andrew Jackson.
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1906-01-06
President Roosevelt asks General Lee if he can obtain a handwritten letter or letter and image of General Robert E. Lee for his collection of items from prominent leaders.
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1905-02-02
President Roosevelt thanks Mary Emily Donelson Wilcox for the holly from the Hermitage and tells her the longer he spends in public life, the more he appreciates her great-uncle, Andrew Jackson.
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1904-12-30
President Roosevelt gives instructions to George B. Cortelyou regarding Senator Knox’s speech. Roosevelt also believes the Democrats are taking some statements about the early United States presidents out of context, but that he should not respond since his views as a historian are not relevant to the campaign.
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1904-09-23
President Roosevelt writes to the Superintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds, Thomas Symons, that he wants a memorandum circulated saying that the Andrew Jackson elm is not to be touched concerning the installation of the Pulaski statue.
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1904-05-14
President Roosevelt thanks Alfred Henry Lewis for the letter by Andrew Jackson.
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1904-04-08
President Roosevelt thanks William Garrott Brown for the biography of Andrew Jackson.
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1902-01-21
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt likes seeing former Secretary of the Navy McAdoo’s portrait hanging on the wall. He sends a pamphlet with presidential messages, which McAdoo inspired. Roosevelt had an interesting three days with the squadron and learned much, although not as much as McAdoo did on his trip.
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1897-09-11
John Trotwood Moore sends Theodore Roosevelt a copy of his book Jack Ballington, Forester. He shares that he was inspired by both Roosevelt and Andrew Jackson.
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1911-05-01
Andrew Jackson sends Theodore Roosevelt one of twenty letters unknown to the public written by President Andrew Jackson to his wife, Rachel Jackson, during his military campaign. He is willing to consider offers for the collection.
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1911-04-28
Archibald Willingham Butt explains why Theodore Roosevelt received a large photograph of Thomas Sully’s painting of Andrew Jackson.
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1911-01-30
Dennis P. Rhoney responds to the questions Theodore Roosevelt posed in his article on New Nationalism. He argues that the recent election results illustrate the country’s dissatisfaction with the Republican Party and its previous presidential administrations, including Roosevelt’s. Rhoney criticizes Roosevelt’s current attacks on the political system.
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1911-01-21
J. C. Columbia congratulates Theodore Roosevelt’s fight against political corruption and comments on the reform movement.
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1911-01-19