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Senator Lodge informs President Roosevelt about his sister-in-law’s health and comments on dealings among several political figures, including Secretary of War William H. Taft and Senator Joseph Benson Foraker.
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1907-04-13
Ripley Hitchcock, editor at Harper & Brothers, notifies President Roosevelt that his articles on hunting that had been published in Harper’s Round Table magazine have been combined into a book called Good Hunting. Hitchcock says the publishers have followed all of Roosevelt’s requests, and expresses his hope that Roosevelt will be pleased. Hitchcock also notes that they are publishing Sampson Rock of Wall Street by Edwin Lefevre, which he believes Roosevelt will be interested to hear. Hitchcock says he will be in Washington, D.C., in upcoming weeks and hopes they can meet then and discuss more literary matters.
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1907-02-08
William Emlen Roosevelt writes to President Roosevelt arguing the right of the U.S. to control all cable landing rights and the establishment of wireless stations on the coast of Panama.
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1907-02-01
William Emlen Roosevelt writes President Roosevelt about annoyances with the Oyster Bay government. He concludes with an update on the family as they get ready for the holidays.
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1906-12-19
This advertisement for a subscription package for both the New York World and the Citizen announces the impartiality of the World in covering the upcoming elections.
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1904-08-27
President Roosevelt writes to his son Kermit about the weather, jumping the horses with Captain Lee and Mrs. Wadsworth, and Pete the bulldog killing squirrels. Roosevelt says he has been busy since Congress closed with the trouble on Wall Street and with Edward Harriman. Roosevelt is also working on four or five speeches.
1907-04-07
A diminutive President Roosevelt stands on Wall Street, holding a large sword labeled “Public Service” before giant capitalist ogres labeled “J. J. Hill” holding a club labeled “Merger,” “Morgan” holding a club labeled “High Finance,” and “Rockefeller, Oxnard, [and] Gould.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1904-01-13
Uncle Sam uses a magnifying glass to see in his left hand a diminutive man labeled “Rumor Monger” yelling “Panic, National Disaster, Failures, [and] Ruin” into a megaphone labeled “Wall Str.” Caption: Uncle Sam — Well! Will this nuisance ever learn that the country governs Wall Street; not Wall Street, the country.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1903-09-02
Theodore Roosevelt has never studied law in a law office and therefore could not have worked with Mr. Mullally in the Drexel-Morgan Building at 29 Wall Street.
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1912-11-11
President Roosevelt thanks Joseph Bucklin Bishop for his letter. Roosevelt found it interesting and delightful, especially Bishop’s analogy for Wall Street financiers.
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1907-06-15
President Roosevelt thanks General Dodge for his letter. He is glad Dodge liked his speech, and believes those who did not like it are “very shortsighted indeed.”
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1907-06-05
President Roosevelt appreciates the letter from Judge Cohen. He is sorry Cohen has been affected by the fall in prices on Wall Street.
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1907-06-04
Theodore Roosevelt writes to Henry W. Taft about Alton Parker’s speech on trusts and common law. Roosevelt views Parker’s position as related to the Democratic state convention’s declaration that states, and not the federal government, should regulate trusts. To Roosevelt, this is an abandonment of every effective attempt by the nation to regulate trusts, and he notes that it could result in Parker receiving several million in campaign donations from Wall Street.
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1904-10-01
President Roosevelt was pleased with the editorial that Ernest Bross wrote.
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1904-05-16
William Emlen Roosevelt wonders if President Roosevelt will return to Oyster Bay to vote. If so, Emlen would like to travel with him. Emlen has registered to vote, but is unsure for whom he should vote. He also fears that the worst of the financial panic gripping Wall Street is not yet over.
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1907-10-23
Paul D. Cravath congratulates President Roosevelt on the election of Charles Evans Hughes in New York, because without Roosevelt’s help and the speeches of Elihu Root he thinks that William Randolph Hearst would have been elected instead. He nevertheless thinks that Hearst will continue to be a strong factor in New York politics. The politics of labor and capital will continue to be the most important political question in the coming years. Cravath admits that in the past he has had some doubts about Roosevelt’s policies, but now promises to try to influence the opinions of his friends on Wall Street to Roosevelt’s side.
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1906-11-07
Ludwig Nissen suggests that Secretary of the Treasury Shaw make an effort to stop newspapers from discrediting the economic policies of the administration. Nissen tells Shaw that newspapers should give him more credit for helping businessmen, rather than portraying him as helping speculators.
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1906-10-24
James Noel Brown congratulations Leslie M. Shaw on his work as Secretary of the Treasury and for his suggestion of an “Emergency Currency.”
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1906-10-23
Chief Engineer Stevens is familiar with Walston H. Brown, and knows him “to be able.” He recommends that, if it is amenable to President Theodore Roosevelt and Secretary of War William H. Taft, the government enter into a contract with Brown and his associates as soon as possible to ensure a quick start to construction in Panama.
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1906-07-27
Benjamin Ide Wheeler writes about President Roosevelt’s reputation with the business world versus the general public. Wheeler also discusses the future of the Republican Party and a candidate for a foreign summit on agriculture.
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1906-07-01