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Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary thanks Charles MacDonald for his letter and requests that he contact Senator Joseph M. Dixon about Roosevelt’s travel to New Jersey.
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1912-05-01
Theodore Roosevelt urges Robert P. Bass to speak in Boston on behalf of the Progressive Party and promote progressive principles. Roosevelt hopes that hearing Bass speak will give the progressive movement in Massachusetts just what it needs, sanity and responsibility.
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1911-12-12
Theodore Roosevelt was relieved to receive Alford Warriner Cooley’s letter since he was upset to hear of Cooley’s relapse. He is interested in Cooley’s report of New Mexico and comments on the recent elections in New York, Massachusetts, and several other states. Roosevelt is staying neutral in presidential nominations and asserts he does not want the nomination.
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1911-11-14
Theodore Roosevelt shares with Joseph Bucklin Bishop that his letter is the first long one that Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt has been able to enjoy. He is glad Bishop likes John Avery McIlhenny and is interested in Bishop’s inside information about the political situation. Roosevelt comments on the recent elections, which were unfavorable for the Republican Party overall. His nephew, Theodore Douglas Robinson, won despite fraud by the J. S. Sherman machine.
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1911-11-11
Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt is herself again, although she remains weak. Theodore Roosevelt was disappointed with Louis Adams Frothingham’s defeat and reflects on the recent elections in New Jersey, Ohio, and New York, including Theodore Douglas Robinson’s election as a New York assemblyman.
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1911-11-09
Theodore Roosevelt writes to P. A. Boyd to decline an invitation to speak.
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1911-05-23
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Richard J. Donovan for sending him the report on the “New Jersey action.”
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1911-02-10
President Roosevelt sends a message of thanks to Archelaus P. Willits in receipt of his letter.
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1911-01-31
Theodore Roosevelt declines to be Honorary President of the Italian-American League of New Jersey. Roosevelt believes the country should not have clubs devoted to German-Americans, French-Americans, English-Americans, or Italian-Americans because “[w]e must all be Americans and nothing else.”
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1915-12-07
Theodore Roosevelt politely declines Everett Colby’s invitation to speak at a political dinner. Roosevelt has found that the only way to prevent an endless succession of speeches is to refuse to begin, and he laments the demand for incessant speeches on serious subjects.
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1915-03-30
Theodore Roosevelt thanks the New Jersey Progressive State Committee and the County chairman for their resolution through Governor Fort. Roosevelt tells Fort privately that he does not want anyone attacking George W. Perkins.
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1912-11-19
President Roosevelt is sorry that he cannot be present at the opening of the tunnel going under the Hudson River, but wishes to express his appreciation for the work that W. G. McAdoo has done on them. The tunnel and associated buildings were very difficult to construct, and they are a great achievement. The completion of this tunnel will bring New York and New Jersey closer together, and will be a boon to the American people.
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1908-02-17
President Roosevelt congratulates J. Franklin Fort on his election as Governor of New Jersey.
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1907-11-07
The Republican Party did well in the recent election in New Jersey and New York outside of Manhattan. The overall results were an improvement on the elections of 1903 and 1899.
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1907-11-07
President Roosevelt thanks Senator Ackerman for his letter. While he is interested in Judge J. Franklin Fort’s success in the election, he cannot do anything to influence the outcome. If he endorsed Fort, he would be obligated to endorse hundreds of other candidates as well.
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1907-11-01
President Roosevelt discusses his thoughts about the results of the previous day’s elections with Senator Lodge, particularly his delight at the defeat of Democratic nominee for Governor of Massachusetts Henry Melville Whitney. Roosevelt is also pleased with wins in Kentucky but saddened by losses in New Jersey and Cleveland. In New York, Roosevelt is angered that Representative Herbert Parsons, who he thinks is a good man, has made an alliance with William Randolph Hearst and Standard Oil.
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1907-11-06
President Roosevelt describes to Mark Sullivan the considerations that have gone into his selections for federal judgeships. Roosevelt reviews his appointments in detail, noting that some were made at the request of the local organization and some against their wishes. The goal in each case was to appoint someone “of the high character, the good sense, the trained legal ability, and the necessary broad-mindedness of spirit…essential to a good judge.”
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1907-05-13
President Roosevelt regards Cortlandt Parker’s son highly and will consider his name if he needs an appointment from New Jersey.
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1906-03-09
President Roosevelt comments to Senator Lodge on the election results in various states. He is particularly pleased about the Massachusetts results. He wishes that Ambassador George von Lengerke Meyer had gone back to Saint Petersburg when the trouble started three weeks ago.
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1905-11-08
President Roosevelt believes that if he does what Senator Kean asks, it will hurt Governor Myron T. Herrick in Ohio. In Ohio, the Democrats are trying to say that “the Republican ticket is the Roosevelt ticket.”
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1905-11-01