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Theodore Roosevelt tells Ernest Harvier he would be glad to hear from Harvier any time, though he does not appreciate how Harvier talked about William A. Prendergast. Roosevelt has a high opinion of both Prendergast and John Murray Mitchell.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-15
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Henry White for his letter and states it is hard work to deal with both the progressives and the conservatives. Roosevelt does not understand John R. Carter leaving the service. Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt is feeling much better and Theodore Roosevelt invites Henry White and his wife to visit the next time they are in New York.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-24
Ernest Harvier writes Theodore Roosevelt with critiques on the lack of opposition the Democrats face against Republicans in the presidential race. Harvier offers Roosevelt council, as a democrat, if it is ever desired.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-12
Theodore Roosevelt introduces George W. Goethals to George Palmer Putnam, who is on his way home to Oregon with his newly wed wife. Putman is the son of John Bishop Putnam, an old friend of Roosevelt’s, and a nephew of George Haven Putnam. Roosevelt does not know Putnam personally but is willing to guarantee that Putnam is as straight as a string knowing his father and uncle. Putnam wishes to see what is happening on the Isthmus and wants to know the present status of the engineering, social, and political matters. Roosevelt appreciates any help he can give Putnam.
Theodore Roosevelt introduces George W. Goethals to George Palmer Putnam, who is on his way home to Oregon with his newly wed wife. While Roosevelt does not personally know Putnam, he is acquainted with his father and his uncle and believes that Putnam is just as trustworthy as his relatives. Putnam wishes to see what is happening on the Isthmus and wants to know the present status of the engineering, social, and political matters.
Theodore Roosevelt introduces Joseph Bucklin Bishop to George Palmer Putman, who is on his way home to Oregon with his newly wed wife. Putman is the son of John Bishop Putnam, an old friend of Roosevelt’s, and a nephew of George Haven Putnam. Roosevelt does not know Putnam personally but is willing to guarantee that Putnam is as straight as a string knowing his father and uncle. Putnam wishes to see what is happening on the Isthmus and wants to know the present status of the engineering, social, and political matters. Roosevelt appreciates any help he can give Putnam.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-19
Ambassador Reid sends President Roosevelt a confidential memorandum. Reid also discusses a British dinner party and European perspectives of international relations and politics.
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1905-06-23
Theodore Roosevelt defends his decision to campaign for the Republican presidential nomination against President Taft. He is disappointed in Taft and feels that Taft has abandoned many of the policies that Roosevelt supported during his presidency.
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1912-03-05
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary refers Jerome D. Davis to the article Roosevelt wrote in The Outlook, in which he gave his opinions on the referendum, initiative, and recall.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-14
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary regrets that Roosevelt is unable to read all the papers that George R. Howe sent, but even so he would be unable to endorse the movement without being inundated with hundreds of similar endorsement requests.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-01
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary confirms the arrival of Brand Whitlock’s telegram and thinks the best answer is to send the enclosed article, which Roosevelt wrote for The Outlook last January 21, explaining his views on the initiative and referendum. He gives permission to quote the article as needed. Since the article gives his viewpoints on the matter, he prefers to use it to answer any questions.
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1911-06-30
Theodore Roosevelt remarks to Charles Dwight Willard how similar his beliefs are to Willard’s article “Who is going to do it?” and hopes to share the article with Samuel Gompers when they lunch. Roosevelt discusses the recent decision by the Supreme Court declaring the Workmen’s Compensation Acts unconstitutional and his desire to remove all those from the bench who voted against it. Roosevelt is pleased by Willard’s comments on his relationships with “plain people” and describes his time on the ranch as his happiest.
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1911-06-20
Theodore Roosevelt informs French Ensor Chadwick that his views are so radically different from Chadwick’s own that Roosevelt is not going to bother to express them.
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1915-10-25
Theodore Roosevelt responds to the content of a pamphlet sent with a letter from North Carolina Chief Justice Walter Clark. Roosevelt believes that the gentleman writing the pamphlet assumes incorrectly “that the people are made for the constitution and not the constitution for the people.”
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1915-08-04
Theodore Roosevelt is very impressed by the article Julius Chambers wrote concerning the Anti-American sentiments coming from some German-American citizens. Roosevelt is sick of hyphenated Americanism.
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1915-08-20
Theodore Roosevelt is glad Julius Chambers enjoyed his speech. Roosevelt enjoyed what Chambers said about the “Old Guard in the Republican Party.”
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1915-08-04
Theodore Roosevelt thanks James P. Nelson for his letter and felt it was the right time to speak out.
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1914-12-17
Theodore Roosevelt hopes that Henry E. Alexander is right about newly elected governor of Pennsylvania Martin Grove Brumbaugh, though Roosevelt was concerned by Brumbaugh’s actions regarding the nomination by the Liquor Dealers.
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1914-11-19
Samuel K. Harvey relays to Theodore Roosevelt that as referred to in the clipping, his friends in Michigan hold him in the highest esteem. Harvey is inquiring about the authenticity of the statement in the newspaper reports that James R. Garfield called on you to attend the Progressive Republican League convention expressing his views of Roosevelt echoing his sentiments on the nomination of Robert La Follette.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-19
Judge Dayton informs President Roosevelt that he has complied with Roosevelt’s request and communicated with George W. Curtin. Curtin affirmed that what Dayton wrote in his previous letter regarding Curtin’s own position, as well as that of Charles F. Teter, was correct.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-06-09
Frederic Harrison was greatly interested by President Roosevelt’s letter in which he expressed socialist ideas. Harrison will keep the letter confidential but hopes that Roosevelt might make his views public. He believes that Roosevelt’s reasons for not seeking re-election are convincing and conclusive.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-01-06