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William Bayard Cutting sends Theodore Roosevelt a copy of the Las Cruces Citizen asking him to verify a quotation that troubled ex-Governor Miguel Antonio Otero.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-11
Theodore Roosevelt does not remember the event fully, but believes Hawes was a good soldier who at that time behaved with honesty.
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1912-05-31
Theodore Roosevelt remembers parts of that quotation but does not remember where he said it.
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1912-05-31
Former President Roosevelt thanks Waldo J. Clark for the letter and remembers him from when Clark dropped into camp.
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1912-05-24
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary tells the American Express Company that Roosevelt does not remember anyone by the name of Settlemyer.
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1912-05-01
Theodore Roosevelt asks if James W. Foley is currently in New York and whether he is the Jim Foley of Medora that Roosevelt once knew. If so, Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt would like to meet him.
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1912-03-25
Theodore Roosevelt thinks it is probable that in the course of his libel suit with William Barnes he will need to relate how the fight was undertaken. Roosevelt notes that it started at Cambridge, when Charles Evans Hughes asked him to do all that he could to get the Primary Bill through. Hughes had told Roosevelt that the “Barnes-Republicans” had joined with Tammany Hall to hold up the legislation, and that an appeal needed to be made to decent citizens to override the combination. Roosevelt cannot recall whether Hughes had used the term “Barnes-Republicans” or “Barnes-machine,” but he does remember Hughes using the word “Barnes.” Roosevelt does not remember Hughes using the word “Murphy” when speaking about Tammany Hall. Roosevelt writes simply to let Hughes know what his memory is in the matter.
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1915-01-13
Theodore Roosevelt expresses his disappointment that he can not be present “at the dedication of the Frank Wayland Higgins Memorial Hospital.” Roosevelt knew Higgins well, and states while Roosevelt was governor he initially knew him as a state senator. Roosevelt details Higgins’s good qualities and regrets he cannot attend.
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1912-11-01
President Roosevelt does not recall the exact matter or letter that he had written about his boxing record at Harvard, but tells Thornton H. Simmons the results of some searching that he had done previously when a similar matter came up. Roosevelt states that he had never been light-weight champion, and tries to clear up questions about his athletic record. He cautions, however, that he does not want this matter published.
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1908-02-14
President Roosevelt offers his condolences to Olive Grace Kerr for the death of her husband, Henry Scanlan Kerr. However, Roosevelt feels he must object to Olive Kerr publishing the article she encloses, since he feels that Henry Kerr would not have recalled Roosevelt’s statements accurately or may have misunderstood what he meant. Roosevelt also feels that it would be inappropriate to publicly recount details Henry Kerr might have overheard at a private luncheon.
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1907-10-24
President Roosevelt writes to Baron d’Estournelles de Constant about a letter he received from him and from Jules Cambon. He remembers with fondness the time d’Estournelles visited him.
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1907-05-22
President Roosevelt will not attend the Memorial Day commemoration at Indianapolis unless the people who organized the statue of General Henry Ware Lawton and those representing the Grand Army of the Republic reconcile their differences. Roosevelt tells Vice President Fairbanks that the veterans of the Spanish-American War should give precedence to those of the Civil War, since the latter conflict was of “infinitely greater nature” than the former and they are much older. Fairbanks should not make this public, but “any celebration of Memorial Day must be primarily a Grand Army celebration.”
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1907-04-16
Secretary to the President Loeb encloses the requested signed quotations from President Roosevelt. The quotations are on Roosevelt’s opinion of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and national memory of the Civil War more broadly, praise of white backwoodsmen’s use of guns and axes in North American western expansion and imperialism, ideal gender roles for men and women, and the need for national commitment to “the life of strenuous endeavor.”
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1907-03-09
President Roosevelt tells Kritzinger, “No recollection but may have.”
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1906-07-25
C. Hart Merriam questions whether William J. Long is deliberately preying on the public or whether he has psychological issues. Merriam notes that Long has given several animals “new cunning, new habits, and new physical strength.” He concludes that Long possesses “creative memory.”
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1903
President Roosevelt was interested to learn that Senator Spooner was present when General Alger offered Roosevelt command of the Rough Riders, which Roosevelt turned down in favor of Leonard Wood. Roosevelt would like to hear Spooner’s memory of the incident.
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1903-12-05
Henry Russell Shaw’s letter brought back old times and President Roosevelt encloses a photograph.
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1903-11-19
President Roosevelt congratulates Charles Sedgwick Aiken on what he is doing for the memory of Bret Harte.
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1903-10-23
Henry Cabot Lodge sends Theodore Roosevelt a proof of Roosevelt’s introduction and requests that he make the marked corrections and send it to the provided address. He asks Roosevelt to wire him whether he will be available to meet with Lodge on Monday morning to talk over some matters.
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1911-05-03
Otto H. Kahn sends Theodore Roosevelt a pamphlet for his information. Several newspapers have misquoted or misinterpreted Kahn’s words where he makes reference to Roosevelt, which he wishes to correct by sending the actual document. Kahn states that while he was a friend of Edward Henry Harriman, he never found trouble reconciling this friendship with his admiration for Roosevelt’s policies and administration, and expresses his sadness that Roosevelt took the view of Harriman that he did.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-24