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Theodore Roosevelt asks for a statement from James E. Sloan to testify to Roosevelt’s sobriety to demonstrate to Roosevelt’s lawyer, James H. Pound, what Pound will have to rely on in the libel case against George A. Newett.
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1912-12-17
Theodore Roosevelt writes James H. Pound to ask when he and his cousin Emlen Roosevelt need to come up to Michigan to testify for his lawsuit against George A. Newett to avoid wasting their time. Roosevelt asks Pound to come visit him in Chicago, Illinois, if he happened to find himself at the Progressive Convention.
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1912-12-07
Theodore Roosevelt agrees that perhaps they should wait on filing a criminal suit against George A. Newett. Roosevelt also proposes several witnesses that James H. Pound could take depositions from for his case.
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1912-12-13
Theodore Roosevelt asks Edmund Heller to testify at his libel trial against George A. Newett about Roosevelt’s lack of alcohol usage while on safari.
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1912-12-14
The accusations of Theodore Roosevelt’s drinking have only increased since the election. Roosevelt requests that Jacob A. Riis testify on his behalf in the libel suit.
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1912-11-30
Theodore Roosevelt writes to James H. Pound, his lawyer, to discuss his upcoming libel case against George A. Newett. Roosevelt proposes several character witnesses to establish his sobriety and character and asks Pound if he needs to be in Michigan for the trial at the end of the month.
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1912-12-04
Theodore Roosevelt comments on the interesting anonymous letter that Alexander H. Revell forwarded to him and stated that he would pass the letter on to his lawyer, James H. Pound.
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1912-12-04
Theodore Roosevelt thanks William S. Cowles for his letter and will edit out a jeer at Simeon E. Baldwin in his article. Roosevelt wants Cowles to come visit him with Senator Joseph W. Alsop and others. Roosevelt cheers Progressive Hopkinson.
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1912-11-20
Theodore Roosevelt informs Matthew Hale to bring that information to Arthur Dehon Hill and to talk to him about it. Roosevelt never “received such advice or treatment.”
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1912-11-22
President Roosevelt is pleased with Representative Small’s letter and applauds his bravery. He asks Small to convey his appreciation for the editorial in The Charlotte Observer to its editor. If it were possible, Roosevelt would include congressman Henry Thomas Rainey in the libel suit against Joseph Pulitzer. Roosevelt is “not really involved,” and is just trying to end the practice of publishing damaging attacks against Americans and their government.
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1909-02-01
President Roosevelt asks Douglas Robinson to “act as a complaining witness” so William Travers Jerome can bring a libel suit.
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1909-01-27
President Roosevelt acknowledges that he knows about the libel suit. He hopes Louisa Lee Schuyler can come visit him before March 4th.
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1909-01-27
President Roosevelt sends word to Robert Harry Munro Ferguson that he will be leaving public office in “a rather stormy fashion,” being attacked by both houses of Congress and by the press. James Bryce has remarked that bringing libel cases against the biggest two offenders in newspapers will be a service to the American public. Bryce and John Morley suggested Roosevelt make a statement about the British in India, which he plans to do presently. Some of Roosevelt’s English friends sent him a rifle for use on his African safari.
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1909-01-17
President Roosevelt is grateful for Henry Sprague’s letter and is not bothered by Senators Joseph Benson Foraker and Benjamin R. Tillman’s “attacks.”
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1909-01-17
President Roosevelt thanks William Dudley Foulke for the letter, and would like him to help if the government is able to pursue a libel suit against Delavan Smith. Roosevelt asks Foulke to tell Richard Henry Dana that Roosevelt does not dislike him, but rather holds him in high regard.
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1908-12-22
President Roosevelt would like to press criminal libel charges against Joseph Pulitzer, and asks Henry L. Stimson if such a thing is possible. Roosevelt believes such a thing may be possible in connection with Pulitzer’s assertions regarding the Panama Canal, and asks Stimson to look into what Pulitzer has said on the topic in the preceding three or four months.
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1908-12-09
President Roosevelt sends Lyman Abbott, editor-in-chief of The Outlook, two more articles on which he would like feedback, and which he expects will be the last ones he sends. Roosevelt will do his best to have criminal libel suits brought against the New York World and the Indianapolis News. While Douglas Robinson or Charles P. Taft had clear cases for libel suits, it is difficult for private individuals to proceed against newspapers, which is why he is taking the lead.
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1908-12-15
President Roosevelt believes that the political situation has changed in William H. Taft’s favor since he last wrote Kermit Roosevelt. He does not understand the movement of the “ultra Protestant bigots” of the American Protective Association against Taft. He thinks that it may cost them Ohio and Indiana. Roosevelt also complains about various newspaper men from the New York Sun, New York Evening Post, Indianapolis News, and others.
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1908-10-24
President Roosevelt hopes that Richard Welling feels as strongly as he does about the World being “arrant nonsense and bad faith to boot.” If Welling read what Roosevelt wrote to William Jennings Bryan, he will understand why he thinks the World‘s proposal is hypocrisy.
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1908-10-24
President Roosevelt is glad Jacob A. Riis is going after the priest, because slander should be “met sharply.” He looks forward to reading the article on playgrounds that Riis is sending.
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1908-04-21