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President Roosevelt thanks Elizabeth M. F. Rhodes for her letter, and is glad to hear that her daughter Edenia May Rhodes is denying the absurd story that he hit her horse. He would never do such a thing, and finds these sorts of unfounded rumors unworthy of the attention that a public denial brings.
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1909-02-01
President Roosevelt tells Frank Andrew Munsey that he is pleased with the article Judson C. Welliver wrote about him, and includes a postscript asking Munsey to keep the contents of this letter confidential.
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1909-01-26
President Roosevelt greatly enjoyed the article Mark Sullivan sent him that was written by Mrs. Humphry Ward. Roosevelt will show it to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt at once, for he is flattered by what Ward said of him and his wife.
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1909-01-26
President Roosevelt will do what he can to help Judson C. Welliver.
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1909-01-18
President Roosevelt describes the process by which he appointed a judge in Connecticut to William Dudley Foulke. Roosevelt vehemently denies reports that he promised the appointment to John K. Beach but later appointed another man in order to get a delegation favorable to nominating William H. Taft at the Republican National Convention.
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1908-08-03
President Roosevelt agrees to the publication of the monograph, so long as William Bayard Hale makes it clear that he is not quoted directly and all the wording comes from Hale, not him. He does not want to be held responsible for its contents.
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1908-04-27
President Roosevelt is glad that Richard Watson Gilder liked William Bayard Hale’s article, but clarifies that he is not responsible for Hale’s words and phrasing. He asks what Gilder suggests he do regarding a memorial for Abraham Lincoln.
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1908-04-30
President Roosevelt encloses for Lawrence F. Abbott an editorial from Labor World which expresses support for him and praises him for being a representative for the working man. Roosevelt does not agree with their advocacy for his renomination and wishes he could transfer the sentiments and support from himself to Secretary of War William H. Taft. He hopes to be remembered as a good representative of the common man.
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1908-04-20
President Roosevelt thanks Howard Allen Bridgman for the editorial and invites him to visit some time to discuss national and global policy.
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1907-12-21
President Roosevelt thanks David Gray for his kind words about Kermit Roosevelt’s sportsmanship. He is glad Gray wrote about Algernon Edward Sartoris, as the situation has been troublesome. Roosevelt wanted to appoint him, but the situation was complicated and he has turned it over to Secretary of State Elihu Root. Gray’s agreement on the economic situation pleases Roosevelt, but he knows many are angry over the depression. He stands equally against union labor tyranny and capitalist tyranny, and hopes the newspapermen and reactionaries will not succeed in stoking a sentiment against him. Gray’s fox hunting is of great interest. Roosevelt now has two good hunting horses, replacing Old Bleistein, who has been retired to a buggy. He hopes Gray will visit, though he does not promise excitement.
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1907-12-22
President Roosevelt emphatically states he is not running again for president, having said as much in numerous contexts. He rails against newspapers, saying it is useless to correct them in their “campaign of constant falsehood.” Regarding financial reform, Roosevelt agrees with William Emlen Roosevelt that no legislation will prevent another Panic of 1907 because it is the result of financial debauchery and dishonesty by those in high places.
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1907-11-09
President Roosevelt assumes Frederick Jesup Stimson was misquoted in a recent newspaper article and asks Stimson to publicly deny the statement in the press.
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1907-10-31
President Roosevelt offers his condolences to Olive Grace Kerr for the death of her husband, Henry Scanlan Kerr. However, Roosevelt feels he must object to Olive Kerr publishing the article she encloses, since he feels that Henry Kerr would not have recalled Roosevelt’s statements accurately or may have misunderstood what he meant. Roosevelt also feels that it would be inappropriate to publicly recount details Henry Kerr might have overheard at a private luncheon.
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1907-10-24
President Roosevelt thanks Ambassador Reid for the newspaper clippings, and thinks Secretary of War William H. Taft has done well. Roosevelt tells Reid about his bear hunt, and says he is surprised that his speeches were covered by the British press.
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1907-10-23
President Roosevelt forwards to Attorney General Bonaparte the Interstate Commerce Commission’s report, letters, and a map on the Edward Henry Harriman matter. He suggests that Bonaparte publish the report at the same time he announces the law suit. In a postscript dated July 11, Roosevelt responds to a letter he received from Bonaparte in the meantime. He expects to be “in an awful row” regarding Ulysses S. Bratton. He discusses the timing of Alexander McDonald McBlair’s and Mary Tayloe Key’s marriage, as it relates to McBlair’s responsibilities in the Oregon land fraud cases. He praises Bonaparte’s handling of the tobacco case. Finally, he alerts Bonaparte that Senator William Peters Hepburn wants to speak with him.
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1907-07-10
President Roosevelt is pleased by the clippings he has received from Lloyd Carpenter Griscom, Ambassador to Italy, and what Griscom described as the effect of Roosevelt’s speech in Indianapolis. Roosevelt believes he is doing good work for the country, even though he is criticized and scapegoated by financiers.
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1907-06-24
President Roosevelt appreciates what Herbert W. Collingwood, editor of The Rural New Yorker, says in his newspaper.
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1907-06-22
President Roosevelt sends photographs of him jumping a horse to United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom Reid. He directs Reid to present the photographs to King Edward VII if he would like them. Roosevelt comments on the newspaper clippings that Reid sent, noting he was surprised at how Englishmen responded to Robert Bond’s criticism of New Newfoundland’s status in the British Empire, given their response to the proposed discriminatory legislation against Japanese students in California. Lately, Roosevelt has been most interested by his “encounter with the ultra labor men and socialists over the Moyer-Haywood-Debs matter.”
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1907-05-15
President Roosevelt thanks Pearl Wight for the letter and sending the editorials. Roosevelt remarks that the circular is idiotic and designed to injure him.
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1907-04-30
President Roosevelt encloses a letter he has sent to Governor-elect Charles Evans Hughes. Roosevelt asks Lyman Abbott if he can have lunch or dinner with him soon to see Roosevelt’s message. He mentions articles in the New York Times and the Sun that “represent the capitalist element which has been most bitter about me.”
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1906-11-07