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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 requests a thorough investigation of the recent loses in the sub-treasury offices in St. Louis and Chicago. He directs that if there is a defect in the system, the system is to be changed.
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1907-02-26
President Roosevelt asks Senator Knox to deliver the enclosed letter to Edgar F. Smith, and further explains his reasons for declining to speak to celebrate the anniversary of Benjamin Franklin’s birth. With Congress in session, Roosevelt is too busy to conduct the necessary research or do the proper preparation that such a speech requires.
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1905-11-21
President Roosevelt informs Senator Warner that José De Olivares has sent the Department of State his record showing that he lived in St. Louis, Missouri, for eight years and voted there beginning in 1900.
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1905-06-24
President Roosevelt does not support Henry Mottet’s plan of a memorial at the Church of the Holy Communion to Roosevelt’s uncle, James King Gracie, and supporting the orthopedic doctor. Rather, Roosevelt tells Douglas Robinson he would like to give some inheritance money to Margaret Gracie Higginson Fiske. The president is glad he was able to see Robinson and his wife, Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, in St. Louis, Missouri.
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1904-12-15
William Loeb encloses President Roosevelt’s check for $10,000 for investment and asks Douglas Robinson to acknowledge receipt. Loeb hopes Robinson and his wife, Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, have “steadied down” after their “spree in St. Louis.”
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1904-12-01
President Roosevelt worries about Bob’s health and is sorry he could not go to St. Louis, Missouri, with them. The president sends his love to Alexander Lambert’s wife, Ellen Cheney Lambert.
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1904-11-24
President Roosevelt thanks Monroe Douglas Robinson for his note and is glad to hear how well he and Stewart Douglas Robinson are doing in football. Roosevelt tells Monroe that he is going to St. Louis, Missouri, with Monroe’s parents, Douglas Robinson and Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, this evening.
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1904-11-24
President Roosevelt apologizes that it is too late to put Elihu Root’s suggestion in the message since it is already printed and Roosevelt is leaving for St. Louis, Missouri.
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1904-11-24
President Roosevelt tells Kermit Roosevelt about the family’s trip to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri, and how he walked through the exposition grounds with an enormous bruise without letting any reporters know he was experiencing pain in his leg. The president was most interested in the North Dakota and Philippine exhibits. President Roosevelt includes a handwritten note encouraging Kermit to “keep pegging away” in his studies and to not lose heart.
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1904-11-29
President Roosevelt thanks Dr. Richard H. E. Klebs for his congratulations and the piece of amber he sent. He hopes to see Klebs at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri.
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1904-11-19
President Roosevelt acknowledges Charles M. Harvey’s congratulations, and hopes to see him when he is in St. Louis, Missouri.
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1904-11-18
President Roosevelt informs Vice President-elect Fairbanks of his plans to attend the St. Louis Fair with Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt and invites Fairbanks and his wife, Cornelia Cole Fairbanks, to attend with them.
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1904-11-11
President Roosevelt is sorry he missed Mexican Vice President Ramón Corral Verdugo’s telegram from October 11 about his upcoming visit to the United States. Roosevelt has directed those in St. Louis, San Francisco, and elsewhere to extend every courtesy to Corral and his party. Corral’s visit is “another proof of the good will that happily exists between our two countries.”
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1904-10-20
President Roosevelt asks Captain Ahern to thank Flaviano Abreu on Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt’s behalf for the “beautiful piece of Filipino embroidery.”
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1904-10-08
President Roosevelt thanks Colonel Sanger for his recent letter and wishes him good luck in his caribou hunt. Roosevelt also believes that Ambassador Charlemagne Tower will have to stay with Roosevelt until after the dedication of the statue of King Frederick II of Prussia for the St. Louis World’s Fair.
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1904-09-10
President Roosevelt has made the changes that Nicholas Murray Butler suggested, but cannot compromise on the tariff section. He feels that Massachusetts is being unreasonable about the tariff, but he would like to revise it after discussing it at length with party leaders.
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1904-08-22
President Roosevelt directs Secretary of the Treasury Shaw to speak with Representative Glass about the St. Louis Exposition. Roosevelt wants the Treasury Department and the Government Board to work together to avoid scandal.
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1904-06-29
President Roosevelt will find someone else for the Long Island meeting instead of Senator Lodge. Roosevelt is interested in the outcome in St. Louis and will see if the new Secretary of the Navy Paul Morton will be more merciful than United States Attorney General Moody about ships for the Grand Army of the Republic.
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1904-07-01
President Roosevelt writes to say Secretary Hay’s speech is one of the “few which achieve prominence.” Roosevelt is amused over the press’s reaction to the rejection of the gold plank in Saint Louis, Missouri.
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1904-07-09