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Due to a heated exchange with Commissioner Andrew D. Parker and Edward Lauterbach, Commissioner Roosevelt was unable to visit Frances Theodora Parsons’s house after the senate committee. Roosevelt was able to see James West Roosevelt before his death and Corinne Roosevelt Robinson is “terribly broken by the news.”
1896-04-12
President Roosevelt agrees with William H. Taft’s view on tariffs but advises him to tread lightly and cautiously on all policy matters. Roosevelt also advises that Taft resist any attempts by George Barnsdale Cox to push him into the wrong positions, but that he remain on good terms, to avoid coming off as Governor Charles Evans Hughes does. Roosevelt advocates that Taft act as he did when in similar positions, avoiding conflict but fighting when necessary. Roosevelt believes he has taken a good shot at William Jennings Bryan.
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1908-09-24
President Roosevelt informs Senator Foraker that he believes Edward Lauterbach is feeling well and that “as for Professor Beal” anyone they take should be recommended by the National Grange. Roosevelt also thanks Foraker for the clippings about Sullivan and the Ohio State Journal.
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1904-08-01
President Roosevelt was very pleased with the talk with Governor Odell and has written to Senator Platt and Edward Lauterbach.
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1904-07-09
On behalf of the Temple Shaari Zedek, Sigmund Cahn invites Theodore Roosevelt to give a lecture for their winter lecture series on a Jewish-American subject of his choice.
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1911-12-18
Charles W. McMurran thanks Theodore Roosevelt for the letter on his son, Russell W. McMurran’s behalf. He included Roosevelt’s secretary’s instructions only to use it as described. Russell wants to make California his home, much like Theodore “Ted” Roosevelt and McMurran hopes Roosevelt will visit Russell when he is in San Francisco. He asks to meet with Roosevelt to discuss a business opportunity. In a side note, McMurran predicts that Tammany Hall will elect their men and the Democrats will control the New York Legislature.
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1911-11-04
Henry Green is organizing a meeting to protest Russia’s refusal to honor American passports held by clergy members, Jews, and other Americans. Green asks Theodore Roosevelt to join his committee of influential Americans. He will send Roosevelt the full list of committee members in the next few days and includes a short-list of members who already accepted the invitation.
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1911-09-15
Representative Parsons writes to President Roosevelt in response to a previous letter in which Roosevelt advised Parsons to be independent from any person or faction within the New York Republican Party if he is selected as chairman of the New York Republican County Committee. Parsons goes into great detail on how he will remain neutral.
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1905-11-28
F. Norton Goddard is disappointed that President Roosevelt has decided not to appoint Marcus M. Marks to the Postmastership of New York before the election, and hopes that Roosevelt may change his mind. Goddard forwards an additional letter recommending Marks to the position, and asks if he can meet with Roosevelt after the election to speak about Marks’s appointment. He comments on how the appointment ties into New York internal politics.
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1904-10-31
F. Norton Goddard received William Loeb’s telegram advising Goddard that President Roosevelt would like Goddard to go see Frank Wayland Higgins. Higgins is in favor of the appointment of Marcus M. Marks as Postmaster of New York, but does not want to openly recommend him for fear of displeasing Benjamin B. Odell. There is some hesitation among Republicans to nominate Marks due to his being Jewish. Goddard asks for the intervention of Roosevelt into this matter by entering into the conversation via telegram, and discusses the possible involvement of Jacob H. Schiff and Thomas Collier Platt as well. He believes the appointment of Marks would be politically beneficial to the Republican Party.
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1904-10-27
John A. Sleicher and Edward Lauterbach have written a tentative draft of the party platform for the New York State Convention, and on the suggestion of Governor Odell, are enclosing a copy for President Roosevelt to review.
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1904-09-01
F. Norton Goddard informs President Roosevelt that he has spoken with a number of people about the potential appointment of Marcus M. Marks to a position with the post office. Many people are in favor of Marks’s appointment, and Goddard believes it would be “a splendid political move.” Goddard believes that making this appointment prior to the election would strengthen the Republican ticket in New York through the support it would engender, and offers to have Marks come visit Roosevelt in Washington, D.C.
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1904-10-27
James Sullivan Clarkson asks Benjamin F. Barnes to bring to President Roosevelt’s attention correspondence regarding the process of naturalization. Because of a law requiring a person to be naturalized ninety days before voting in an election and the limits on how many naturalization cases the court can handle each day, Clarkson suggests that Roosevelt increase the number of workers in the Naturalization Bureau.
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1904-06-14
Nevada N. Stranahan reports that New York Governor Benjamin B. Odell does not object to New York State delegates and Congressional District delegates supporting Roosevelt in the Republican National Convention. Stranahan encloses a clipping of an interview with Governor Odell.
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1904-01-25
Russell Sage believes that the financial situation is serious and offers his assistance. He suggests his personal representative, Edward Lauterbach, meet with President Roosevelt.
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1903-10-01
Marcus M. Marks delivered President Roosevelt’s message to Edward Lauterbach and is working with Jeremiah Whipple Jenks on the proposition they discussed.
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1902-10-13
A series of news bulletins describing events, correspondence, and negotiations regarding the Anthracite Coal Strike in Pennsylvania.
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1902-10-09
Senator Lodge informs Police Commissioner Roosevelt he believes that things are improving for Roosevelt in New York because the Republican Legislature in the state cannot afford to go back on his policy. Lodge then tells Roosevelt his letter to the Harvard Crimson is a great success. Remarking on the success of Roosevelt’s letter to the Harvard Crimson, Lodge notes his amusement at Roosevelt’s use of “baboo” since he had suggested that he substitute it for “grocer,” and he predicts that “baboo” will become as popular as “cuckoo.” Lodge believes they will come out successful in Venezuela and vindicate the Monroe Doctrine.
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1896-01-11