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President Roosevelt thanks Jacob A. Riis for sending the kind letter from schoolteacher Lydia T. Mills. He feels humbled by the high opinions people have of him.
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1907-08-10
President Roosevelt thanks Harold Irwin Cleveland for his response to a letter criticizing Roosevelt’s character.
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1901-10-03
George E. Miller understands where Roosevelt stands, but explains that people are disappointed in President William H. Taft’s leadership and remember all the good Roosevelt did. With how it is looking in Michigan, Miller would not be surprised to see a “Roosevelt Renaissance.”
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1911-10-11
Charles S. Sheldon encloses an editorial to illustrate the President’s “villainy” for Theodore Roosevelt.
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1911-09-20
Wayne Whipple informs Theodore Roosevelt that he received his kind note of the 8th and clarifies, humorously, that he is not “Major Whipple,” but simply plain Wayne Whipple.
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1911-09-11
Senator Lodge brings several small matters to President Roosevelt’s attention about Senator William E. Chandler resigning from the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission, interviews that Lodge has had with blenders of whiskey who feel they have been misrepresented by the journalist, Henry Beach Needham, and that Philip Hildreth Reade ought to be promoted to Brigadier General in the United States Army. Lodge also mentions that he gave an off-hand speech encouraging people to support the Republican ticket, but it had been misrepresented in the papers. The senator closes by including a quotation from a man who believed that Roosevelt was a drunkard and addicted to morphine and that his family constantly stays with him to prevent others from discovering his condition.
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1907-09-19
Attorney Otto Gresham sends President Roosevelt a letter from Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis. Gresham shares his views, as well as the views of various local lawyers and judges, on Landis’s actions and the proceedings of the Standard Oil case. Gresham also summarizes the conversations he had with Landis regarding the potential reversal of the case and the imposition of the fine. After discussing the history of law in Britain, Gresham concludes that the people support Roosevelt in his actions to control the corporations.
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1907-09-04
Isthmian Canal Commission Secretary Bishop updates President Roosevelt on his family. Chairman and Chief Engineer of the Isthmian Canal Commission Colonel George W. Goethals requested Bishop’s presence on the Isthmus to have a channel of communication to Roosevelt, and Roosevelt’s recent letter pleased him. Bishop says the only major issue is the arrogant behavior of Jackson Smith, the Head of the Department of Labor, Quarters, and Subsistence on the Panama Canal Commission. Additionally, the engineer Joseph Ripley created incorrect blueprints and has been proven to be no expert on locks, but Major William L. Sibert is excellent. Bishop thinks the Republican Club of New York’s motives for disparaging Roosevelt’s canal policy are political. In response to Roosevelt’s suggestion to include local events in the new paper, Bishop explains that it may be hard to keep current, but he will try his best.
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1907-09-03
Senator Lodge shares some of a letter from Secretary of the Immigration Commission, Morton E. Crane, in which Crane discusses the positive feelings of the citizens of London toward President Roosevelt’s economic policies, as well as the friendship between Indiana Senator Albert J. Beveridge and David Graham Phillips, author of The Treason of the Senate. Lodge also shares segments from Baron F. A. Channing’s essay on the Union, which Roosevelt may want to quote.
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1907-09-02
Anna Roosevelt Cowles has been eager to write to President Roosevelt but knows he is busy. After seeing many of their friends, she updates Roosevelt on their views and the influence of financial ties on his supporters. Cowles has been at a beautiful property called Hill-Stead owned by Alfred Atmore Pope and Ada Brooks Pope, and she feels that such places reflect positively on wealth in America. She updates Roosevelt on William S. Cowles’ trip and on family matters. As a favor to Frederick William Vanderbilt who has been respectful to Roosevelt through everything, Cowles asks if Roosevelt can have Duchess of Manchester Consuelo Montagu for lunch. Douglas Robinson seems to be making a political impact in Herkimer County, and Cowles looks forward to visiting and talking about many things whenever it is convenient for Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt.
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1907-08-31
Senator Bourne hopes William Loeb enjoys his upcoming camping trip. He submits if Loeb had followed his advice, it could have prevented the public furor and blaming of President Roosevelt “for every epidemic or visitation of providence.” Bourne requests Loeb deliver the enclosed letter to President Roosevelt.
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1907-08-21
Senator Lodge’s sister-in-law Louisa Minot Davis Luce is still alive, though barely. Commenting on a charge that President Roosevelt was insane, Lodge notes that it was a careless remark that had been misconstrued and was not meant to be taken seriously. The people are with Roosevelt.
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1907-04-17
Albert Shaw is glad to have talked to William Loeb and hopes that Loeb can send him the promised photographs of President Roosevelt soon. In Shaw’s opinion the public seems to continue to support the President.
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1907-04-11
Hamilton Fish informs President Roosevelt that two men interested in meeting with him to discuss his policy on corporations are “among the most vehement in their denunciations of” his policies. They are lawyer and railroad president Edward R. Bacon and coal baron Edward J. Berwind.
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1907-03-27
A political cartoon depicting President Theodore Roosevelt and lawyer Francis Heney comparing hunting kills. Roosevelt’s two dead bears identify him as a boodler and a land thief, and Heney’s bears are labeled grafter and U.S. Senator.
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1907-03-25
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson reports to William Loeb on President Roosevelt’s standing in Ohio, based on the opinion of W. I. Chamberlain, a farm journal editor who has visited every county. Wilson asks Loeb to inform the Roosevelt that he will be visiting whiskey distilleries and will be gone for a week.
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1907-01-02
William G. Cogswell forwards to William Loeb a sketch of an advertisement displayed in the window of a Chicago business establishment. Cogswell finds the advertisement disrespectful toward President Roosevelt and expresses his indignation to Loeb.
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1905-06-29
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
Benjamin Ide Wheeler praises President Roosevelt’s diplomatic skills. Wheeler states the future of the United States will be determined by the countries across the Pacific Ocean instead of those across the Atlantic Ocean as it was in the founding of the United States.
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1905-06-16
Assistant Treasurer Fish writes to President Roosevelt through William Loeb that the political situation in New York has improved as previously reticent politicians, such as New York Governor Odell, are now showing support for Roosevelt’s renomination after the admirable way in which Roosevelt treated Senator Hanna’s initial lack of support. Fish closes by addressing the irregularities in the post office department and suggesting that any fraud should be investigated and punished.
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1903-06-05