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Theodore Roosevelt declines H. S. Jeffery’s request for Roosevelt to write to President Taft on Jeffery’s behalf.
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1911-02-21
Theodore Roosevelt declines Samuel Montgomery Roosevelt’s request for an endorsement for a political appointment.
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1911-02-17
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary relays that Roosevelt is unable to assist Dr. F. J. Holben in securing an official position.
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1911-02-15
On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, his secretary writes that Roosevelt is unable to assist William A. Mitchell in finding employment.
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1911-02-15
On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, his secretary writes that he is unable to assist Walter E. Richards in gaining an official position or other employment.
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1911-02-15
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary writes that Roosevelt is unable to assist Andrew K. Reynolds in securing an official position.
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1911-02-13
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary responds to M. L. Ayers’s request to send a cable to Roosevelt regarding the reappointment of Sylvane M. Ferris to the U.S. Land Office in Dickinson, North Dakota. He is unwilling to send the cable because Roosevelt is sailing up the Nile River and Roosevelt has consistently refused to influence appointments in the new administration.
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1910-02-26
Theodore Roosevelt asks that Commissioner Kingsbury look at an application of a woman named Read, whose brother was a naval officer of Roosevelt’s acquaintance. He asks that her records be reviewed, and if qualified, that she be considered for the job.
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1915-02-13
President Roosevelt tells Senator Knox of Pennsylvania his response to an enclosed letter from Representative James Francis Burke of Pennsylvania, in which Roosevelt states that he would like to appoint John Dunbar Pringle, who has done good work for the Republican Party in his paper, to be appraiser of merchandise in Pittsburg. He also encloses for Knox a letter from Pringle that will provide more information about him.
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1908-11-20
President Roosevelt writes Richard Watson Gilder a lengthy refutation of an article in the Evening Post in which William Garrott Brown misconstrues his actions in the Republican Party. Namely, Brown accuses Roosevelt of neglecting Republicans in the South and of doing a poor job of making nominations to local offices and positions. Roosevelt asserts that where the Republican party is not strong in the South, he has had to appoint Democrats who were quality men, rather than incapable men who are Republicans. Where he believes the party has a chance to compete with Democrats, he does all he can to support it. Roosevelt also writes that he did not use his influence on officers to get William H. Taft the nomination, but rather Taft was nominated because Roosevelt’s policies were popular, and Taft is the man who will continue those policies. Roosevelt believes that Brown is either ignorant or willfully ignorant of a number of facts.
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1908-11-16
President Roosevelt outlines and refutes the falsehoods in Alfred Holt Stone’s Studies in the American Race Problem. He tells John Graham Brooks that he judges a work’s reliability by seeing what it says about a subject he is familiar with, and then deciding if he can trust it on things that he does not know as much about. He explains that Stone is spreading falsehoods about the so-called “referee” system in the Southern states, especially Mississippi. Roosevelt points out that the practice was common with presidents before him, and that it is necessary in areas where the Republican party does not have a strong enough presence to provide good appointees to positions. He also discusses his handling of the case of African American postmistress Minnie M. Geddings Cox, who was forced by an angry mob to resign her position and leave town.
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1908-11-13
President Roosevelt asks Arizona Governor Kibbey whether he should appoint former Rough Rider George L. Bugbee to a position.
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1908-04-29
President Roosevelt thinks George W. Wanmaker should be appointed appraiser at once.
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1907-12-31
President Roosevelt asks why Charles Fairbanks, who has been highly recommended by several high-ranking government officials, should not be appointed as pension agent for New Hampshire.
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1907-11-29
President Roosevelts asks why Charles Fairbanks, who has been highly recommended by several high-ranking government officials, should not be appointed as pension agent for New Hampshire.
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1907-11-29
President Roosevelt asks New Hampshire Representative Sulloway to support Osman Baker Warren, a disabled Civil War veteran, for a job as Pension Agent.
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1907-11-06
President Roosevelt asks New Hampshire Representative Burnham to support Osman Baker Warren, a disabled Civil War veteran, for a job as Pension Agent.
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1907-11-06
President Roosevelt asks New Hampshire Representative Currier to support Osman Baker Warren, a disabled Civil War veteran, for a job as Pension Agent.
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1907-11-06
President Roosevelt asks New Hampshire Senator Gallinger to support Osman Baker Warren, a disabled Civil War veteran, for a job as Pension Agent.
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1907-11-06
President Roosevelt had arranged over a year ago that Senator Robert J. Gamble could choose a district attorney for South Dakota, and the post will go to Edward E. Wagner. Roosevelt tells Senator Kittredge that he and Gamble will have to work together to fill the rest of the positions.
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1907-05-06