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President Roosevelt alerts William Brown McKinley, Chairman of the Republican Congressional Committee, that he will be receiving the final draft of Roosevelt’s letter, edited with assistance from Secretary of State Elihu Root, Representative J. S. Sherman, and Representative Henry C. Loudenslager.
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1908-09-11
President Roosevelt informs Representative Loudenslager that his and Representative J. S. Sherman’s proposal is a repetition of what he has already written in the letter. Roosevelt believes that their objection revolves around his addressing two subjects in the letter that perhaps should not be combined, and therefore thinks he will split the letter into two different letters.
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1908-09-04
President Roosevelt asks Secretary of the Interior Garfield if they have the power to act in the case mentioned in the enclosed letter. A postscript indicates the enclosed letter is from Harold W. Buck about the construction of a road up the Deschutes River that will destroy the river’s waterpower potential.
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1908-08-29
President Roosevelt tells former state senator William D. Barnes that he does not know enough about the situation and is unwilling to interfere. Different elements should be represented and recognized on the ticket.
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1908-08-25
President Roosevelt appreciates the letter District Attorney Eugene A. Philbin sent. Philbin was likely writing to offer condolences to Roosevelt upon the death of William McKinley the week prior or support to Roosevelt in his new role as president.
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1901-09-20
Promoted upon the death of William McKinley a week earlier, President Roosevelt thanks McKinley’s Secretary of State John Thomas McDonough for the letter. Roosevelt assures McDonough that he intends to make no changes to the Cabinet.
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1901-09-20
A week after entering office after the death of William McKinley, President Roosevelt writes to Robert Todd Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln, thanking him for a recent letter. Roosevelt has many things to talk with Lincoln about and hopes to see him soon.
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1901-09-20
Newly appointed President Roosevelt writes that St. Clair McKelway’s words have strengthened him, particularly what McKelway said about Roosevelt’s time as Governor. Roosevelt invites McKelway, editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, to the White House to discuss his plans for policy. Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt can spend time with Virginia Brooks Thompson McKelway.
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1901-09-16
Speaker of the House Cannon wrote to President Roosevelt about a letter sent to him by the President. Cannon agreed with Roosevelt that the writer, Joseph B. Potter, was a patriotic citizen who represented the sentiment of veterans.
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1905-01-21
First Secretary at the U.S. Embassy in London Henry White tells Second Assistant Secretary of State Adee that he gave President Roosevelt’s letter to Cecil Spring Rice.
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1905-01-11
Secretary of War Taft returns correspondence from Speaker Cannon and comments on its contents. Taft said that he read Cannon’s letter with interest and pleasure.
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1905-01-04
Republican National Committee Chairman George B. Cortelyou encloses a telegram from William F. Cody.
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1904-12-21
Republican National Committee Chairman Cortelyou asks Benjamin F. Barnes to present an enclosed personal letter to President Roosevelt and then return it to Cortelyou.
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1904-12-20
Republican Committee Chairman Cortelyou sends President Roosevelt a letter from Colonel S. G. McLendon to read. Cortelyou describes McLendon as a friend of Senator Hanna and President McKinley.
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1904-12-14
Republican National Committee Chairman Cortelyou encloses a letter from Captain John Roy Lynch and notes that there was previous correspondence on the same subject.
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1904-12-13
Republican National Committee Chairman Cortelyou thanks Benjamin F. Barnes for sending an unidentified letter and returns it for President Roosevelt’s private files.
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1904-12-10
Excerpt from the Library of Congress Quarterly Journal of Current Acquisitions, Fifteenth Anniversary Issue, including “Some Thoughts on the Roosevelt Papers” by Elting Elmore Morison and the “Catalog of the Theodore Roosevelt Centennial Exhibit.”
1958-05
President Roosevelt appreciates Emperor of Austria, Franz Joseph’s sympathy regarding his recent carriage accident.
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1902-09-05
President Roosevelt had not seen the documents and thanks Secretary of State Hay for sending them.
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1902-01-16
On behalf of President Roosevelt, George B. Cortelyou asks Secretary of State Hay if he considers the William McKinley Normal and Industrial School a “worthy institution.”
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1902-06-09