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Adolph Marix informs Theodore Roosevelt of a new company that will inspect and certify all goods for sale. Officers from the Army and Navy will be the president and vice-president of the company and Marix would like Roosevelt to be the director.
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1911-10-24
Marix, Adolph, 1848-1919
Secretary of War Taft returns a letter from Henry S. Pritchett, which describes the mental state of John F. Stevens, chief engineer of the Panama Canal. Taft concludes that a man “who goes off his head this way,” referring to Stevens’s behavior, is not the man to continue overseeing “such an important enterprise.”
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1907-03-09
Theodore Roosevelt wishes Frederick J. H. Kracke good luck in his leadership.
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1911-07-25
Theodore Roosevelt is pleased that William Grant Edens, Vice President of the Central Trust Company of Illinois, quoted Roosevelt about Patrick H. Morrissey, President of the Railway Employees’ and Investors’ Association. Morrissey is the kind of labor leader in whom Roosevelt “most heartily” believes and would do anything to support him.
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1911-05-23
Theodore Roosevelt informs John Franklin Jameson that he cannot accept the presidency of the American Historical Association and would prefer not to be named as a vice president, as he has come to dread making addresses and must do so continually.
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1911-01-19
Theodore Roosevelt believes in the importance of the cause for which they stand. The leader only matters as far as they help the cause win success. Henry L. Stimson “typified the cause of real progress.”
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1910-11-11
Theodore Roosevelt tells John St. Loe Strachey, editor of the London Spectator, that he is mistaken in believing that the American public will acknowledge Roosevelt as a leader again. Roosevelt does, however, believe that what he has said will influence public opinion and they will see that his position was right. Roosevelt sends two of his articles about the Lusitania disaster to Strachey, which were and are still not popular. Roosevelt sends his regards to Strachey’s daughter and wife and is glad their house has become an emergency hospital. Roosevelt will write James Bryce expressing his approval of Bryce’s report on German atrocities.
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1915-05-29
President Roosevelt asks Postmaster General Cortelyou who will be the head of the Republican National Committee. Roosevelt wants to speak with Cortelyou about “some of the political features in this business.”
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1907-03-01
President Roosevelt asks Secretary of the Navy Morton to direct the naval people on the Isthmus to obey Secretary of War William H. Taft’s orders.
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1904-11-17
President Roosevelt would accept an honorary presidency but cannot accept an “actual working presidency.”
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1904-03-15
This document reports the significant moments in Albert Leopold Mills’s military career. Highlights include his extensive career as a military instructor, his involvement in campaigns against the Crow and Sioux, as well as the battles at Santiago and Las Guasimas in Cuba, and his receipt of the Congressional Medal of Honor. Colonel John W. Vrooman reports in a letter to William Loeb, which encloses this document, that this copy represents what was contained within the “beautiful engrossed album containing nineteen parchment pages enclosed in a handsome leather cover.” The album was a souvenir at the Union League Club dinner celebrating General Mills on August 29, 1906.
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1906-09-06
The present members of the Civil Service Commission would like General Black to assume the presidency of the Commission. President Roosevelt asks if Black will accept the offer.
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1903-12-22
President Roosevelt would be pleased to receive the books and is glad that Cyrus Townsend Brady’s son is at Harvard. Roosevelt read the Henry article with great interest but is questioning Edward Godfrey’s mastery of his men.
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1903-10-21
Gifford Pinchot tells Theodore Roosevelt that they have never needed his leadership as they do now; it is “the greatest call in [his] whole career.”
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1918
John Shepherd greatly admires Theodore Roosevelt’s leadership but admires his worth as a moral force even more. He read Roosevelt’s article “The Search for Truth in a Reverent Spirit” with “profound interest and profit to my mind and heart.”
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1911-12-05
Gifford Pinchot and Theodore Roosevelt are in agreement that President Taft is beholden to special interests. While he understands Roosevelt’s desire not to run for president again, Pinchot believes Roosevelt should lead the progressive movement. It is not “a question of personal wishes,” Pinchot says, but one of “a marvellous opportunity and a great national need.”
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1910-07-06
The moderates in Cuba will submit to any plan Secretary of War Taft and Assistant Secretary of State Bacon draft, on the condition that rebels lay down their arms and disperse. Despite differing opinions, Taft is arranging a meeting with insurgent groups and is hopeful. Liberal party leader Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso is also willing to work on a compromise. American ships Newark and Minneapolis have arrived. Bacon now thinks President Estrada Palma should remain for continuity, although others believe his weakness will only cause further disharmony. Taft agrees with Bacon.
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1906-09-22
Congressman Parsons explains to President Roosevelt that he has written to Civil Service Commissioner Alford Warriner Cooley and expressed that he believes it would be “most unfair” to ask Deputy Surveyor Collin H. Woodward to withdraw at this late date. Parsons does not think Woodward’s leadership is as demoralizing as that of Assistant Postmaster Morgan.
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1906-09-07
Congressman Parsons tells William Loeb that New York City Postmaster William R. Willcox is doing his best to do justice to the men in his department. However, discrimination against “colored men” is a concern. Parsons notes that the reason he is writing is because he understands that President Roosevelt “is being otherwise written to on behalf of Guerrant,” an African American postal worker who claimed he was fired because of racial discrimination.
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1906-09-07
Albert J. Beveridge congratulates Theodore Roosevelt on the appointment of Elihu Root as Secretary of State. He also states that the gift of selection is the “highest quality and fact of leadership.”
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1906-07-10