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Pearl Wight encourages J. R. Thornton to amend the Arbitration Treaty Bill with Senator Elihu Root’s amendment and then pass it because it will be able to prevent many wars in the future. Wight compares international arbitration to businessmen settling their disputes with compromise rather than long lawsuits.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-15
John S. Nissen introduces himself to Theodore Roosevelt and encloses a selection of employment references. He asks for Roosevelt’s aid in fixing a payment discrepancy.
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1911-09-19
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
A list of all men of color appointed to or continued in office by President Roosevelt, complete with the office and date.
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1907-01
David Starr Jordan thinks that if Americanism is the true motto of the country, then Japanese immigrants who meet all the qualifications should be naturalized as citizens. President Roosevelt and his administration have been successful in preventing the creation of a “Jim Crow” class while also protecting America’s dignity in interacting with Japan. Even in interfering in local matters, it has only been limited to when there are possible constitutional violations at stake, like when the local school board in San Francisco made their ruling about the Japanese school-aged children. There are definite economic advantages to maintaining trade with Asia, but an influx of immigration to the United States does raise some valid concerns along economic and social lines.
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1907-01-03
Benjamin F. Sparhawk of the General Land Office testifies in court as to certain “wrong and irregular” acts by colleagues in his department, including improper approvals of land lieu selections and favoritism in the selection and promotion of employees. Sparhawk particularly implicates John McPhaul, his division chief.
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1906-12-19
At the behest of the Cohn-Kuntz faction, Gus Lehmann is tendering his name for the position of Postmaster for New Orleans. The position was also tendered to Lehmann by the Lily-White faction. He did not seek the position from either faction. Lehmann is seeking the position to help straighten matters between the two factions in his state.
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1905-01-04
Walter L. Cohen asks Nathan Bay Scott to back his choice of Emile Kuntz as New Orleans postmaster to President Roosevelt.
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1905-01-02
Francis Bennett Williams details the political situation in the last election, including voter participation and corruption by Democrats. He suggests possible replacements for Walter L. Cohen and gives a very bad report of H. Dudley Coleman. Finally, Williams states that the opinion of President Roosevelt in the American South is changing, largely due to the effectiveness of his policies and appointments there.
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1904-12-24
President Roosevelt holds his “big stick” as he is trapped below the “feathered bed of private life.” Meanwhile, Uncle Sam sits on him and holds up a “candidacy lightning rod” with multiple prongs on it: “peace of Portsmouth,” “rate legislation,” “Panama Canal,” “beef trust,” “post office cleansing,” “coal strike,” “railroad merger,” “New Orleans,” and “departmental investigations.” Lightning from the “Republican nomination 1908” storm cloud hits this rod. Three other men—Ohio Senator Joseph Benson Foraker, Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks, and Leslie M. Shaw—hold up much smaller lightning rods with no success.
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1905
Theodore Roosevelt writes to his sister Anna about recent happenings in Washington. His workload has been light and he and wife Edith have been doing quite a bit of entertaining and socializing. Roosevelt is anxious to continue writing his Winning of the West. He comments on the “lynching of the Italians in New Orleans.”
1891-03-21
President Roosevelt writes to his son Kermit to say he is going to New Orleans, Louisiana, to please the people who feel they are cut off. Roosevelt was interested to hear that Kermit is playing the same position in football as Ted and is getting on better with the Rector. Roosevelt says he has been playing tennis with the French Ambassador. He closes by describing a walk with Edith and how much they enjoy the surroundings of the White House.
1905-10-05
President Roosevelt writes his son Kermit to give him advice about balancing football and studying. He then talks about his southern trip including injuries he sustained in New Orleans on a ship. Roosevelt adds that Alice Roosevelt returned from her eastern trip and brought presents for the children, including Japanese fencing armor.
1905-11-01
Frank Harper thanks John Milliken Parker for his letter, which he will send on to Theodore Roosevelt. Harper will contact O. K. Davis, Secretary of the Progressive Committee, to arrange for Roosevelt to visit New Orleans.
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1912-09-16
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary thanks E. N. Cornay for the letter and pamphlet.
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1912-05-07
Theodore Roosevelt regretfully declines Edward Wisner’s invitation to speak at the upcoming National Drainage Congress in New Orleans.
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1912-03-22
Theodore Roosevelt writes to James William Porch and agrees that it would be appropriate if the first ship to go through the canal was one belonging to the New Orleans Progressive Union.
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1911-07-18
Theodore Roosevelt replies to Lewis R. Graham and declines his request because “any letter I write in reference to any kind of political conquest is always certain to cause misunderstanding, this being due to the fact that I cannot know the local conditions which vary completely from place to place.” He also is unable to assist Graham in locating the speeches in which he spoke of “independence in voting and political life in general.”
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1911-07-18
Theodore Roosevelt appreciates the papers that Philip Werlein sent, and he enjoyed himself in New Orleans.
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1911-05-26
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary requests full newspaper reports of Roosevelt’s speeches in New Orleans.
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1911-05-12