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William Loeb asks Rudolph Forster if there are any records documenting that President Roosevelt informed the representatives of the Grand Army encampment at Boston that Roosevelt would not be present at the encampment.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-07-16
President Roosevelt tells Louis A. Frothingham that he is not coming in June, otherwise he would love to stay with him.
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1908-03-19
President Roosevelt responds to a letter from Senator Hopkins. Roosevelt explains that the process for selecting an attorney general is the same in each state, and the Department of Justice prefers to select men that it already knows to serve in the state governments.
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1907-05-24
President Roosevelt would like to be able to visit Governor Guild during Old Home Week, but he will be visiting Massachusetts later that summer and cannot visit twice.
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1907-06-01
President Roosevelt has considered the matter Guild A. Copeland mentioned, and assures him that the United States “will take nothing from China to which we have not both a moral and a legal right.” Roosevelt’s schedule will prevent him from seeing Copeland during his upcoming visit to Boston.
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1907-02-13
President Roosevelt is glad that all danger surrounding Charlotte Howe Johnson Guild’s illness is now over and will let Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt know. He has arranged for Sturgis Bigelow to host Frank Lowell and Governor Guild for breakfast in Boston, and Roosevelt will lunch with his son and friends in Cambridge. As Roosevelt’s visit to Province town is a regular state visit, Guild can advise Roosevelt of his duties while there.
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1907-01-30
President Roosevelt tells Senator Lodge that he wishes he could accept the invitation to attend a reception thrown on his behalf when in Boston, but he will be too busy visiting his two sons and giving a speech at Harvard that he even had to turn down an invitation from Massachusetts Governor Curtis Guild.
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1907-01-28
President Roosevelt asks Secretary of the Treasury Shaw if Shaw can hold things status quo until he can speak to Senators Henry Cabot Lodge and Winthrop Murray Crane concerning the appraiser’s stores in Boston.
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1906-11-27
President Roosevelt cannot find his shotguns and asks if his son Theodore Roosevelt if he might know of their whereabouts. Roosevelt updates Ted on his activities and wishes to know how things are for him at Harvard College. Roosevelt mentions that the members of the Ancient Order of Hibernians from Boston disapproved of Boston District Attorney John B. Moran’s conduct toward Ted in the assault charges made against him and Shaun Kelley, a fellow student at Harvard.
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1906-10-09
President Roosevelt tells Police Commissioner O’Meara to disregard his letter concerning his son Ted’s arrest. Roosevelt was unaware of his son’s appearance before the grand jury, and believes the letter should never have been written.
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1906-10-03
President Roosevelt wishes his son Ted had written sooner “instead of allowing us to inevitably believe that you acted foolishly” as he heard of Ted’s arrest from the newspapers. Roosevelt believes that his son and Arthur Blagden, a fellow student at Harvard, behaved correctly. However, Shaun Kelley, Ted’s roommate, did not. Roosevelt has written Boston Police Commissioner Stephen O’Meara about the plainclothes officer who struck Ted and believes the man “ought to be thrown off the force.” Senator Henry Cabot Lodge also wrote O’Meara supporting Ted in the incident.
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1906-10-02
President Roosevelt sends Finley Peter Dunne a copy of his correspondence with Norman Hapgood for Dunne’s personal use. Roosevelt asks if Dunne prefers to attend the target practice with him or go to Boston with Connolly.
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1906-09-04
President Roosevelt tells William D. Sohier that he believes that the army could do a better job of providing disaster relief to San Francsco if it were working only by itself, but that it would raise an uproar if it were to ignore the representatives of San Francisco who insist on helping. He promises to discuss Sohier’s letter with Secretary of War William H. Taft.
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1906-06-10
President Roosevelt commends Republican Louis Adams Frothingham for putting up a fight in the Boston mayoral election despite his loss.
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1905-12-14
Although he wishes that Harvard had won, President Roosevelt is pleased that his son Theodore “Ted” Roosevelt evidently got to play in the game against Yale. He praises Ted’s performance in the game, during which Yale directed “battering” plays against him because he was so small and light, and says that Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt and Ethel Roosevelt were “very indignant” about it. Roosevelt is very proud of his son’s football career, but glad that he is too small to try out for the varsity team. He hopes that now Ted can attend more to his studies and that he will be able to come to Pine Knot for Thanksgiving, as he is not bringing the Secret Service with him and Edith is worried about his being the only man in the house. He asks one more time what Ted would like Alexander Lambert to do about the moose horns.
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1905-11-19
President Roosevelt tells George G. Cotton that he believes that, as a descendant of John Cotton and William Bradford, Cotton “typifies the old Puritan spirit infinitely more than the professional anti-imperialists of Boston to-day.” Roosevelt appreciated Cotton’s kind words, and sympathizes with him about missing a moose hunt.
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1904-11-07
President Roosevelt sends his regrets that he cannot attend the annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic in Boston, Massachusetts. Roosevelt holds General Black and his fellow veterans in the highest regard.
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1904-08-06
President Roosevelt sends his regrets to General Blackmar that he will be unable to attend the annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic in Boston, Massachusetts. Roosevelt has the greatest respect for those who fought for “the very life of the Nation” and agrees with former president William McKinley that their “patriotic spirit still animates the Republic.”
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1904-08-06
President Roosevelt regrets that he is unable to attend the Annual Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic and hopes that General Howard will express his utmost respect to the veterans of the Civil War.
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1904-08-06
President Roosevelt writes to Secretary of War Taft to thank him for his letter. Roosevelt remarks on Taft’s speech in Boston, and expresses his uncertainty towards the Democratic Party.
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1904-07-06