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President Roosevelt tells University of California President Wheeler that he is going to try to keep California Senators Frank P. Flint and George C. Perkins “straight” on the nomination of Franklin K. Lane to the Interstate Commerce Commission. He will do what he can to get Lane through.
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1905-12-14
President Roosevelt expresses his great regard for Ernest Gurke, an enlisted man who offered him a flag.
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1905-11-01
President Roosevelt asks Theodore P. Shonts, Chairman of the Isthmian Canal Commission, to read a letter from Senator George C. Perkins and an article by Benjamin M. Hall. He wonders if it would be worth inviting Hall, a Civil Engineer, to address the commission, or putting him on the board.
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1905-08-31
Text of remarks made by Frederick S. Stratton and Senator Perkins at a memorial service held for William McKinley.
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1901-09
William T. Hornaday asks if Theodore Roosevelt will write a few lines of support for Hornaday’s game preservation plan which he will shortly take to Congress. Hornaday also hopes that Roosevelt will help him secure the support of Governor Johnson of California.
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1915-10-29
William Kent regrets that he will not be able to show Theodore Roosevelt the area north of the bay himself while Roosevelt is in California, but he nevertheless invites Roosevelt to visit his house and drive into the woods while he is away. Kent strongly desires Francis J. Heney to be appointed as a United States Senator. He believes the senior senator, Senator George Clement Perkins, will not last long, and that Heney would be an ideal candidate to replace him. Kent suggests that if Roosevelt feels himself able to, that he write to California Governor Hiram Johnson to suggest this to him. The difficulties Heney has experienced following his work in the Oregon Land Fraud trial cause Kent a great deal of regret, and he would like to help him if possible.
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1911-03-24
George W. White credits Theodore Roosevelt with building the Panama Canal, one of America’s greatest achievements for which the country is indebted to him. White proposes the canal be named after Roosevelt.
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1911-01-29
In a telephone message, Albert J. Beveridge reported on the positions of several Senators regarding the battleship bill, and provided a list of Senators President Roosevelt should speak to about it.
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1908-04-20
University of California President Benjamin Ide Wheeler tells William Loeb that the California politicians are not truly objecting to President Roosevelt’s choice for the Berkeley Postmaster position. They are merely attempting to delay the appointment to show their power and rebuke Wheeler’s recommending Clarence S. Merrill for the position. Wheeler tells Loeb to reveal to Roosevelt this seemingly “petty” information at his own discretion.
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1907-12-05
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Newberry writes Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte about a candidate for office. Newberry told the candidate that he would receive serious consideration with Bonaparte. The candidate is not named in the letter, but Newberry is likely referring to Eustace Barron Rogers for the position of Paymaster-General. Newberry adds that he completed inspection of two of the armored cruisers, the battleship Virginia, the Torpedo Station, and the Training Station. He will also send the Dolphin to New York for repairs.
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1906-09-06
Senator Hale has been kept away from the Senate by illness for the past two weeks, but in the meantime he has asked Senator George C. Perkins to reintroduce the bill concerning hazing at the United States Naval Academy. He sends President Roosevelt a copy of it and welcomes his suggestions.
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1906-02-03
Samuel H. Piles writes to President Roosevelt to discuss the Chinese boycott of American goods. Piles and others believe that the boycott has threatened commercial trade on the Pacific coast.
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1905-09-02
Benjamin Ide Wheeler, president of the University of California at Berkeley, recommends Professor Bernard Moses to President Roosevelt for a ministry position. Further contact with South America is inevitable, and Moses has expertise in South American language and affairs, as demonstrated in his book The Establishment of Spanish Rule in America. Wheeler also anticipates a visit from Alice Roosevelt, who is coming with Secretary of War William H. Taft and Taft’s family. He briefly discusses an upcoming struggle with Republican senators over foreign policy issues and arguments over railway rate control and the prospect of government ownership.
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1905-05-23
The Senate Committee on Naval Affairs interviews a number of naval officers on some alleged defects in the construction of several battleships now being built. Chief among these concerns are the questions of the placement of the armor belt, the positions of the guns, and the design of the hoists to provide the turrets with ammunition.
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1908-03-21
President-Elect Taft informs President Roosevelt that he has written to Senators Eugene Hale, Shelby M. Cullom, Philander C. Knox, and George C. Perkins about the matter of establishing an embassy in China. Taft believes that if Roosevelt writes to Perkins and Cullom, they might be convinced. He hopes that they will be able to “steal a march” on Secretary of State Elihu Root and get this embassy established quickly.
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1908-12-24
This black and white postcard features portraits of the governors of California from 1859 to 1911. The back of the postcard lists their names and dates in office.
1911
Senator Beveridge recommends deferring the divisive statehood issue until the term following the election. Original and typewritten copy.
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1903-11-29
Special efforts are being made to bring pressure on Senator Perkins by the “colored people in California who cast in that state about 3,000 votes.”
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1903-03-06
Francis E. Leupp tells President Roosevelt that the Democrats are making it difficult to have the appointments of William Demos Crum confirmed, but he has heard that Senator George C. Perkins will vote to confirm if Roosevelt and Booker T. Washington are in favor of Crum. Leupp also reports that Rollo Ogden is anxious to know what will be done about William Michael Byrne, whose reappointment as district attorney for Delaware was opposed by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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1903-02-05
William H. Moody suggests several legislators that he believes should be invited to a dinner designed to be effective at increasing the Navy.
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1902-12-12