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President Roosevelt received Caspar Whitney’s letter about Cipriano Castro and the Venezuela situation and jokingly laments that he does not have the power to authorize kidnappings.
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1908-04-16
Theodore Roosevelt will tell Silas McBee “a little joke” on the Archbishop of Canterbury that happened when Roosevelt was a boy traveling with his father in Egypt.
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1904-10-05
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt has accepted the invitation and looks forward to seeing everyone together. He jokes with Robinson about remarks Robinson made about Roosevelt to Henry Cabot Lodge.
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1897-05-28
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt jokes with Job E. Hedges that he will send battleships to attack his courtroom if Hedges continues to send Roosevelt allusive letters. Roosevelt congratulates Hedges on his recent appointment.
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1897-05-18
Senator Dixon jokes that early indications show Jack Johnson leading Booker T. Washington for the vice presidency on the Progressive Party ticket.
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1912-11-05
Lawrence F. Abbott thanks President Roosevelt for the letter and tells him that he had it read to his wife, Winifred Buck Abbott, and the nurse. He jokes that the Roosevelt proved that presidents can speak about non-government matters. He teases that his over nine pound baby boy and healthy wife make him strong on “race suicide,” even if he is weak on “nature fakers.”
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1907-07-10
Postcard featuring engagement photos of Alice Roosevelt Longworth and Nicholas Longworth. Message to Agnes Miller states, “Haven’t received my invitation yet. Have you?”
1905-1907
Police Commissioner Roosevelt expresses his amusement at the correspondence between John Jay Chapman and some mutual acquaintances and encourages Chapman to visit when he can.
1895-11-12
Governor Roosevelt compliments General Johnson on his genealogical research at the Maryland Historical Society and shares some of the Roosevelt lineage. Specifically, Roosevelt’s family ties to Oliver Cromwell and Robert Blake. Roosevelt also jests that if he does not obtain reelection, he would very much enjoy visiting Johnson.
1900-05-18
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Amy Gordan Galt Grant, wife of Robert Grant, for his recent visit and jokes about the Progressive Party. Roosevelt also encourages the Grants to visit him at the Sagamore estate in the spring.
1911-01-31