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President Roosevelt has offered a Cabinet position to Paul Morton. He did not know that Crane would be willing to take a Cabinet position, or he would have offered him George B. Cortelyou’s position. Roosevelt also tells Senator Lodge that he likes Meredith Townsend’s book.
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1904-06-17
President Roosevelt informs Senator Cullom that Paul Morton has consented to serve in the Cabinet.
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1904-06-24
President Roosevelt will appoint William H. Moody to attorney general on July 1, 1904.
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1904-06-14
President Roosevelt tells his uncle Robert Barnwell Roosevelt that he will look into a certain matter himself, and that he has also sent Robert Roosevelt’s letter and pamphlet to Secretary of the Navy Paul Morton so he can look into it as well.
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1904-06-15
President Roosevelt seeks Marvin Hughitt’s opinion on Representative Victor Howard Metcalf. Roosevelt is considering Metcalf for Secretary of Commerce and Labor when George B. Cortelyou becomes Chairman of the Republican National Committee.
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1904-06-06
President Roosevelt wishes for Nicholas Murray Butler to visit and concurs that William J. Calhoun is worthy of esteem. Roosevelt comments at length on an article in Collier’s Weekly, one he assumes was written by Norman Hapgood, and desires Butler to “know the exact facts.” On careful reading, Roosevelt believes the article was written with malicious intent due to its numerous falsehoods regarding the construction projects at the Capitol and the White House, the hiring of the architects completing these jobs, appointments of others to government posts, and other matters. In his explanation, Roosevelt makes analogies to many political situations, past and present.
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1904-06-03
Alexander W. Swanitz sends Theodore Roosevelt an article and requests it be published in The Outlook.
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1911-08-19
Mariane Starkey Dusenberg asks Theodore Roosevelt to send her Whitelaw Reid’s address.
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1911-01-23
E. L. Powell of Louisville, Kentucky, discusses the annual banquet he sponsors, which is attended by representatives of the city and the state’s social, religious, professional, industrial, and political life. He invites Theodore Roosevelt as the guest of honor.
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1910-12-12
William Sowden Sims thanks President Roosevelt for enclosing the letter from A. T. Mahan, which he describes as an “admirable presentation of the merits and defects” of the navy administration. Based on Mahan’s letter and the other men involved in the commission, Sims feels certain that the report will be sound from military, law, business, and political perspectives. He is hopeful that the commission’s findings will result in “many great improvements in military efficiency.”
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1909-01-14
Albert L. Key cites different recommendations President Roosevelt and his administration have made over the years regarding organization of the Navy and Navy Department. In spite of the recommendations, Congress and the naval committees have not acted on them. Rather, they seem more concerned with appropriations. Key asks Roosevelt to push the issue of new legislation in a special message to Congress.
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1908-01-25
Herman Henry Kohlsaat explains that he has asked Forrest Crissey of the Saturday Evening Post if he would write an article about a letter President Roosevelt sent regarding the regulation of railroads in 1899. The Post would like to reprint the letter in question as a facsimile, and since Mabel Blake Kohlsaat is unsure where the original letter is, Kohlsaat requests another signed version of the letter for reproduction.
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1907-06-22
James John Hagerman begs Secretary of State Root to delay his son Governor Herbert J. Hagerman’s impending resignation. Hagerman believes that President Roosevelt is being persuaded by immoral men to confirm the resignation and install George Curry in his place. Hagerman implores Root to end these proceedings and to allow the people of New Mexico to retain their governor. Hagerman concludes his letter with a list of men who verify his son’s standing as a trustworthy person.
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1907-04-27
William Emlen Roosevelt sends his cousin, President Roosevelt, a letter and pamphlet from Franklin Bache. William has recently met with Paul Morton and Frank A. Vanderlip about the currency matter, and he asks the President if he would like to meet to discuss the matter or if he should express his opinions in a letter. William has recently visited with his sons, and he is looking forward to hearing about the President’s trip to Panama.
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1906-12-03
Chairman Knapp of the Interstate Commerce Commission has sent a trustworthy man west with instructions, who will meet Lane, Clark, and others in Des Moines to verify the statement in person. Knapp has new information that Paul Morton has evidence related to rebates paid to William Randolph Hearst in California. If Roosevelt suggest so, Morton would speak up on the matter.
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1906-10-25
Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte returns to William Loeb a letter from Congressman Amos L. Allen and explains its peculiar circumstances. Navy Paymaster Samuel McGowan has charged Bonaparte’s secretary, Henry C. Gauss, with forging a letter making charges against McGowan. Though Gauss is no friend to McGowan, Bonaparte does not think that Gauss sees McGowan as an enemy; nor does he think Gauss so foolish as to attempt such a “silly, childish trick.” Thus, Bonaparte doubts the accuracy of the handwriting analysis McGowan had done on the letter and asks Loeb to offer an opinion once he reviews the papers.
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1906-08-24
Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte updates President Roosevelt on a number of issues that Roosevelt had inquired about. The battleships of the Asiatic Station have already been given orders to return as soon as possible–one will undergo repairs at San Francisco, and the other will return to the Atlantic Coast and join the Atlantic Fleet Battleship Force under Admiral Robley D. Evans. Bonaparte has received a report on the topic of bad meat at the New York naval yard, which he encloses. Bonaparte finally shares some plans for the posting of wage schedules, and reports on the untangling of a controversy between the Bureau of Navigation and a local Naval Militia. Plans for an upcoming naval review are going smoothly.
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1906-08-13
Midvale Steel Company addresses President Roosevelt sending him a message regarding shipbuilding companies nabbing armor-plate contracts. Midvale Steel Company President Harrah discusses the challenges of bidding for contracts such as vying against certain competitors for contracts. Harrah suggests that it would be beneficial for Midvale Steel Company to win the armor-plate contracts since the company is cost effective, does fair bidding, offers timely deliveries, and has a record of reliability.
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1906-07-13
Attorney General Moody provides President Roosevelt with a “concise history” of the case against the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company.
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1905-12-13
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson encloses a letter from Caroline Morton Potter that contains news of Frances Theodora Parsons. Robinson asks that President Roosevelt return the letter once he and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt have read it, as several friends would also like to read it. Robinson expresses her sorrow for what Parsons is going through, presumably with the recent death of her husband, James Russell Parsons.
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1905-12-14