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President Roosevelt introduces Harold Howland of The Outlook to the American representatives in Cuba. He requests Howland have access to information, except for intel sensitive to the military.
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1906-09-27
President Roosevelt authorizes Secretary of War Taft to use funds to stable the cavalry at Boise, Idaho as General Fred C. Ainsworth mentioned. Roosevelt additionally comments on several appointments, saying he believes that Walston H. Brown should be allowed to carry out his proposal, that he has decided to appoint James Shanklin Harlan to the Interstate Commerce Commission, and that he is inclined to appoint Horace H. Lurton, which will necessitate appointing a new Circuit Court Judge. Roosevelt also writes at length about some recent articles by Poultney Bigelow which contain some “slanderous falsehood,” but about which he believes some response should be made.
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1906-08-17
President Roosevelt thanks Melville Elijah Stone for the letter of explanation but believes that if Elmer E. Paine is replaced as a reporter in the White House before the Senate votes to confirm Benjamin F. Barnes’s nomination, it will be difficult to convince people that the change was not made because of the Mrs. Morris incident earlier in the year. If Stone still feels that Paine should be replaced, Roosevelt suggests waiting a few weeks before taking action.
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1906-05-10
President Roosevelt writes to Melville Elijah Stone because he has heard a rumor that Elmer E. Paine is to be replaced as a reporter at the White House because of his truthful reporting on the “Mrs. Morris affair.” Roosevelt defends Paine and his reporting and makes it known that he “should feel in the strongest way his change under these circumstances.” Roosevelt feels that Paine’s removal would signal that reporters should not report the truth and does not want them to be punished for being honest.
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1906-05-08
President Roosevelt praises Lindsay Denison for his upcoming article, which Roosevelt has received a proof of. He believes that Denision’s writing will show the situation as it really is, which in turn will help the government make improvements.
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1906-03-23
William Loeb is pleased to add Juliette M. Babbit and her husband, Charles H. Babbitt, to the list of newspaper correspondents.
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1905-12-29
President Roosevelt sends Robert J. Collier copies of two letters that he received from the correspondent of the Kansas City Star from Missouri. Roosevelt’s letters to Collier are being used by Samuel Hopkins Adams to try to harm Roosevelt during the final moments of the campaign. Roosevelt states that he is in favor of the Republican ticket in Missouri, as he is in every state, but never made a comparison between the Republican candidate Joseph Wingate Folk and his opponent Cyrus Packard Walbridge. He asks that Collier keep the matter to himself, as someone, whether Adams or someone else, apparently hopes to influence the election in Missouri, as well as the presidential election itself.
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1904-10-29
Vice President Roosevelt met with Mr. Bell and they discussed George W. Smalley. Roosevelt is fond of Smalley but understands that Smalley does not agree with American life or international policy. He hopes to meet with Smalley when Smalley visits the United States so they can discuss international relations and their differences of opinion.
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1901-09-10
Gifford Pinchot asks if Theodore Roosevelt will write a letter introducing Gerald Morgan to Ambassador George Bakhmeteff. As a war correspondent, Morgan has accompanied the German and British armies and is now hoping to do the same with the Russian army. Pinchot and Cornelia Bryce Pinchot will be leaving soon for Florida.
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1914-11-09
Frank Basil Tracy asks Theodore Roosevelt, in confidence, to confirm whether Winthrop Murray Crane offered Roosevelt his support.
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1911-11-27
Edward Sandford Martin gives Theodore Roosevelt the option of having their lunch at his house or at the Century, where he can arrange for a private room. They can talk about the Porcellian Club as Roosevelt requests. He recalls an incident concerning his friend’s father and an article in Joseph Pulitzer’s World.
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1911-11-10
George Haven Putnam writes Theodore Roosevelt to ask him a favor concerning Putnam’s brother’s son, George Palmer Putnam. George Palmer Putnam is a newspaper correspondent currently residing in Oregon but recently returned to New York to get married, and will travel back to Oregon soon via the Panama Canal whilst writing news reports on the canal’s status. George Haven Putnam hopes Roosevelt might still be in contact with people involved in the Panama Canal and connect Putnam’s nephew with these individuals. Putnam also knows of a book concerning war photography being published soon that Roosevelt might find interesting.
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1911-10-13
O.F. Ward encloses a clipping from the Chicago Record-Herald which he believes may interest Theodore Roosevelt. The writer of the article believes Roosevelt should offer some words to the veterans mentioned in it.
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1911-09-05
As a journalist in Washington D. C., Scott C. Bone covered Theodore Roosevelt’s public life. Bone requests an autographed photograph of Roosevelt to hang in his new office in Puget Sound, Washington.
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1911-08-14
Mark Sullivan requests from Theodore Roosevelt a few more days to settle on a definite date for a luncheon Roosevelt has invited a group of journalists to, due to several individuals traveling.
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1911-05-26
Charles Dillon asks Theodore Roosevelt for an autographed portrait to include in the Kansas State Agricultural College’s collection of successful men in journalism.
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1911-04-26
Elliott Northcott, Minister to Colombia, reports to Secretary of State Knox on the conduct of Edwin Warren Guyol and Earl Harding, reporters for the New York World who were visiting the legation to investigate the revolution in Panama. Their aim was to secure evidence to be used in a trial against the World. Guyol and Harding both acted badly, and Harding accessed the legation’s records without permission. Legation clerk Alfred A. Norsworthy, who gave Harding access to the papers, was dismissed. Harding threatened to publish information that would get Northcott and other legation officials fired.
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1909-10-25
John St. Loe Strachey thanks President Roosevelt for sending him the two books, which he will read when he is able to. Strachey also congratulates Roosevelt on the nomination of Secretary of War William H. Taft to be the Republican candidate for President. The journalist Edward Dicey is not someone who has very much influence, or who Strachey thinks very highly of. Strachey hopes that Roosevelt might be able to visit England on his way to his African safari. He also thanks Roosevelt for letting him see the letter that Roosevelt wrote to Lincoln Steffens.
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1908-06-22
Jacob A. Riis returns a letter from President Roosevelt to Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte. Riis has written a letter which he expects the Times will print in the next few days. He is conscious of his limitations when it comes to drumming up support for Roosevelt, because he feels that he must be “judicial and temperate,” which is against his nature.
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1908-01-08
Rear Admiral Cowles requests that a representative from the New York Herald be included on the list of correspondents for the movement of the Great White Fleet in light of the newspaper’s scope and history of reporting on the Navy. Cowles notes that Henry S. Brown, an executive of the Herald, is particularly incensed over the inclusion of a correspondent from a newspaper owned by William Randolph Hearst, and intends to meet with William Loeb personally to discuss adding a correspondent from the Herald.
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1907-11-20