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Henry Cabot Lodge writes to President Roosevelt regarding international relations, mostly concerning Canadian and England issues. Lodge thinks Wall Street is doing better, and he gives his love to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt.
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1903-08-30
Elbert F. Baldwin thanks President Roosevelt for his letter regarding the Wall Street crew and article in The Sun.
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1903-08-22
Senator Lodge is pleased with the direction the Alaska Boundary talks have taken and thinks it will end favorable for the United States. He is concerned with the push to make General Miles head of the army as that will make him a powerful political force for the Democratic Party. However, Lodge sees the biggest threat to the Republican Party coming from the business depression and is keeping an eye on Wall Street. He also comments on various international news items.
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1903-08-20
William C. LeGendre writes to President Roosevelt regarding the views and opinions of prominent bankers in New York, which he says are bitter. LeGendre believes that this has been slightly softened recently, but suggests heeding some of the older and more experienced bankers. Roosevelt can feel free to contact LeGendre any time he wishes.
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1903-08-12
Lovell H. Jerome recommends seeking out Senator Nelson Aldrich as a representative of John D. Rockefeller’s interests concerning a financial matter in which “great danger exists.”
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1903-07-16
James Speyer thanks President Roosevelt for the invitation to have lunch with him and for speaking so frankly about issues affecting Wall Street. He feels that the action Roosevelt took in the Northern Securities Case was the correct one. In response to a previous question from Roosevelt, Speyer also offers a recommendation for Mr. Keller as someone who understands traffic and is honest and conservative but is not considered one of the “greatest railroad managers in the country.”
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1903-06-25
Wall Street discussion on raising campaign funds for Theodore Roosevelt if he were to be re-nominated. J. P. Morgan and others are quoted as saying it would be impossible to raise the funds for Roosevelt because of his sympathetic attitude towards labor, while others say there would be no reason for Wall Street not to help fund the campaign for reelection.
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1903-06-12
William Justus Boies has enclosed two articles from the Evening Post: one on the Northern Securities decision and the other on Wall Street’s attitude toward President Roosevelt’s personally.
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1903-06-15
Dwight Braman informs President Roosevelt confidentially about a Wall Street conspiracy against Roosevelt and the Republican administration. A syndicate formed by J. Pierpont Morgan and others bought up government bonds and then attempted to force the money rate up to 40%. The United States Treasury would then have to buy the bonds back at inflated rates. The plan failed due to the intervention of Russell Sage, one of Braman’s clients. Braman has also been working to solve the coal strike and he encloses a letter from John Mitchell which details his efforts.
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1902-10-07