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Abby Gunn Baker agrees to show William Loeb photographs taken in the White House in September 1907 and not to publish any photographs without his permission.
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1907-09-06
Charles Hopkins Clark responds to President Roosevelt’s inquiry about the note from Yale University President Arthur Twining Hadley. Clark explains that he knows some of the men involved in the matter and that The Courant is not in any way bound to support Senator Frank B. Brandegee’s suggestion. Senators, as well as lawyers, have widely endorsed Walter C. Noyes for the position of United States Circuit Judge. Clark strongly recommends his appointment and says that if he is turned down, it could lead to trouble in Connecticut.
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1907-09-04
Second Assistant Secretary of State Adee received William Loeb’s letter regarding the Central American conference. Diplomats Joaquín Bernardo Calvo Mora of Costa Rica and José F. Godoy of Mexico have suggested to Adee that a protocol fixing the location and preventing demonstrations be signed. Adee discusses support for potential locations and dates. He feels they should follow the recommendation of Mexican president Porfirio Díaz and express Nicaragua’s proposal of Mexico as a location.
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1907-09-04
Anna Roosevelt Cowles has been eager to write to President Roosevelt but knows he is busy. After seeing many of their friends, she updates Roosevelt on their views and the influence of financial ties on his supporters. Cowles has been at a beautiful property called Hill-Stead owned by Alfred Atmore Pope and Ada Brooks Pope, and she feels that such places reflect positively on wealth in America. She updates Roosevelt on William S. Cowles’ trip and on family matters. As a favor to Frederick William Vanderbilt who has been respectful to Roosevelt through everything, Cowles asks if Roosevelt can have Duchess of Manchester Consuelo Montagu for lunch. Douglas Robinson seems to be making a political impact in Herkimer County, and Cowles looks forward to visiting and talking about many things whenever it is convenient for Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt.
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1907-08-31
Assistant Attorney General Cooley returns Philip Battell Stewart’s letter to President Roosevelt. He also includes a report from Stewart’s attorney wherein he tries to cast doubt on Cooley’s account and the propriety of Roosevelt’s choice to remove Herbert J. Hagerman from the position of territorial governor of New Mexico. Cooley cites multiple cases that give precedent to his claims. He feels that Hagerman was treated leniently.
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1907-08-23
Albert Shaw thanks President Roosevelt for sending him photographs for publication. He is confident that the engravers will ensure they can be reproduced effectively. Shaw reminds Roosevelt that he would like a tennis court snapshot.
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1907-04-12
Doctor Lambert writes to President Roosevelt and extends an invitation for Roosevelt and William Loeb to stay at his house during the upcoming peace conference.
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1907-04-02
George Bird Grinnell thanks Theodore Roosevelt for sending the letter that Roosevelt just received from Earl Grey. Grinnell is gratified to know that the Governor General of Canada is interested in protecting buffalo. Grinnell closes by sending his well wishes to Archie Roosevelt.
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1907-03-15
Secretary of the Navy Metcalf returns to President Roosevelt a letter from James F. J. Archibald detailing what Archibald feels is necessary to provide adequate Naval defense for the Pacific coast. Metcalf also sends a report from the General Board of the Navy, as requested by William Loeb, Roosevelt’s secretary. Metcalf states he agrees with the board’s report.
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1907-03-01
Silas McBee agrees to come to dinner and appreciates the opportunity to see Ambassador James Bryce. McBee praises Roosevelt’s address before the Harvard Union, especially his description of state’s rights.
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1907-02-19
Having received telegrams from William Loeb and Senator Borah, Calvin Cobb wishes to respond to President Roosevelt’s telegram and address potential misunderstandings of the situation in Idaho concerning the appointment of the United States Judge there. Cobb addresses the electability of multiple candidates, discouraging the appointment of Justice James F. Ailshie and Former Idaho Representative Edgar Wilson due to the risk of political upheaval, while also maintaining that he is not pushing for one peculiar candidate, merely stating “each man’s claims fairly.”
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1907-02-19
Andrew Carnegie tells President Roosevelt that he believes the priority at the next Hague Peace Conference must be the establishment of an international police force.
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1907-02-14
Chief Forester Gifford Pinchot provides President Theodore Roosevelt with a report on land office work after claims of possible fraud and of hardship. Pinchot recommends that Secretary of the Interior Ethan Allen Hitchcock be given an additional $500,000 to “bring the public land business of the United States up to date.”
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1907-02-11
Paul Morton returns the page from Boston’s Evening Transcript with feedback. Morton believes the main reason that railroad service has deteriorated is because of the large volume of traffic they are forced to move. Morton also thinks that shippers are using railroads cars for storage instead of the transportation of goods. According to Morton, labor unions play a part in the inefficiency in the railroad service.
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1907-02-05
In compliance with a letter he received from the President’s secretary, Secretary of War Taft sends President Roosevelt a letter from James F. J. Archibald that relates to the submarine defense of the Pacific Coast and Hawaiian islands, and reports from General Arthur Murray, the Chief of Artillery, and General William W. Wotherspoon, Acting Chief of the Army Third Division, General Staff.
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1907-01-24
Overton W. Price of the United States Forest Service suggests changes to President Roosevelt’s order regarding the issuance of patents for public lands to eliminate opportunities for fraud. Price also recommends changing the wording to allow any authorized officer of the government to investigate cases.
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1907-01-22
Kermit Roosevelt tells President Roosevelt what he is reading and how the weather has been recently. He asks whether the Ute braves finally came to Roosevelt and if Roosevelt has sent the “Tartar tribe” back to Utah. Roosevelt mentions that he requested papers regarding the “Brownsville discharge affair” from William Loeb, as Barclay is debating on it and he has been working hard with him, although he belongs to the opposite camp. He asks if President Roosevelt thinks he will get “those two big battleships of the dreadnought class” that he has asked for.
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1907-01-20
Albert Shaw, editor of the magazine Review of Reviews, informs President Roosevelt that William T. Stead, editor of the English Review of Reviews, is visiting the United States as a guest of Andrew Carnegie in order to attend Carnegie’s peace conference. Shaw thinks that Roosevelt may wish to speak with Stead, and says that even though Stead is an advocate for peace, he does not lack in practical sense.
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1907-04-06
Secret Service Agent Connell recounts his experience of the “Mrs. Minor Morris incident,” when Laura A. Hull Morris entered the White House and demanded to speak with President Roosevelt before being escorted from the premises.
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1906
Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock writes President Roosevelt with his advice on the complicated matter of withdrawing coal lands. On Roosevelt’s direction, the Department of the Interior and the General Land Office began surveying and drafting a list of townships that contained rich coal lands with the intention of withdrawing them from homestead exemptions, and the Department is working quickly to wire all of Roosevelt’s orders to appropriate land offices around the country. However, it is apparent that oil industry men can use many loopholes to obtain the land.
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1906-12-17