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George Gilmour sends Theodore Roosevelt a copy of an address on The Press and Social Progress given by Harry C. Withers in which the unused possibilities of the newspaper are discussed. Gilmour hopes the address might make it into The Outlook.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-16
William Bayard Cutting sends Theodore Roosevelt a copy of the Las Cruces Citizen asking him to verify a quotation that troubled ex-Governor Miguel Antonio Otero.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-11
Massachusetts Representative Gardner informs President Roosevelt that no letters have been given out to the press and asks which of them should do it. If Roosevelt wants a personal explanation, Gardner is happy to come to Washington, D.C. and explain the situation in the presence of Attorney General William H. Moody.
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1904-11-10
Old Mother Hubbard, labeled a “Washington correspondent” and a “press” dog open “the cabinet” and are shocked to read a sign that says, “Nothing doing. T. R.” Caption: “When she got there the cupboard was bare, and so the poor dog got none.”
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1905-10-26
“The Press” tries to walk toward the “cabinet” car, which includes Secretary of State Elihu Root, Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw, Secretary of War William H. Taft, Attorney General William H. Moody, Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson, Secretary of the Navy Charles J. Bonaparte, and Secretary of Commerce Victor H. Metcalf, but “Headkeeper” William Loeb holds “the big stick” and tells him to stop. There is a dove of “peace” on the car and a sign that reads, “This way to the stuffed bears and mountain lions.” President Roosevelt rides away on an elephant.
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1905-10-22
“The Press” looks a number of cabinet officers who have gags in their mouths: Secretary of State Elihu Root, Secretary of War William H. Taft, Secretary of the Navy Charles J. Bonaparte, Attorney General William H. Moody, Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw, Postmaster General George B. Cortelyou, Secretary of Commerce and Labor Victor H. Metcalf, and Secretary of the Interior Ethan A. Hitchcock. The “White House” is in the background. Caption: “Think twice before you speak, then talk to yourself.”
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1905-10-19
Samuel W. Pennypacker, governor of Pennsylvania, wearing a fools’ cap, tries to block the light of “Publicity” with a sheet of paper labeled “Pennsylvania Gag Law.” The light from a lantern held by a hand labeled “Press” is exposing Matthew S. Quay, a senator from Pennsylvania.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1903-06-03
A devilish-looking man holding an ink-tipped quill labeled “French Press” stands on a pedestal labeled “Paris,” gleefully kicking up his left foot labeled “Insults” toward the British Lion, in the background, who is engaged in war in the Transvaal. Behind the “French Press” is a press spewing “Venomous Articles” and “Spite Cartoons.” Caption: French Press–Me kick at the British Lion? Boo! Who’s afraid? Fashodia [sic] is avenged!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1900-01-03
Theodore Roosevelt thanks William P. Reilly for his letter, but has no tickets for the convention. Roosevelt suggests that Reilly contact the people in charge of the convention.
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1912-06-07
Theodore Roosevelt provides Frederick Courteney Selous with an excerpt of a letter that Frederick John Jackson sent another American about Roosevelt’s upcoming safari. The letter included various recommendations about suppliers and itinerary. Roosevelt likes the itinerary, but is concerned about whether he can prevent the press from following his caravan. He asks if the government could refuse to issue them licenses to travel.
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1908-11-25
Theodore Roosevelt does not think it will be possible to get Carolina Abbott Derby’s poem published. Roosevelt has done everything he can to make the Administration wake up. He believes President Wilson’s conduct toward Mexico has been even more dishonorable than his conduct toward Belgium.
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1914-12-12
President Roosevelt will use United States Attorney Foster’s “first rate” letter if necessary. He believes that the New York Sun knew that it was lying and will not pay any heed to Foster’s having exposed the lie. Roosevelt doubts if it is worth going into the matter.
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1908-10-30
President Roosevelt informs French Ambassador Jusserand that the news about which the latter inquired came out of Paris, France. Neither Roosevelt nor Secretary of State Elihu Root had mentioned it to anyone, and the newspapermen Roosevelt trusts say they knew nothing of it before the news came from Paris.
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1907-06-12
President Roosevelt tells Richard Watson Gilder that Robert Fulton Cutting “will be more than pleased to balance your poetry against [Hearst’s] prose!” Roosevelt knew they had fixed the problem with Secretary of State Elihu Root’s speech.
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1906-11-05
President Roosevelt informs Massachusetts Representative Gardner he will publish his letter, which he believes he needs to do given misunderstandings and inquiries.
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1904-11-11
President Roosevelt informs Massachusetts Representative Gardner he has received his telegram and believes it would be better if Gardner gave out Roosevelt’s letter to the press.
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1904-11-10
President Roosevelt wants to give out his answer to the press since Massachusetts Representative Gardner’s letter to him had already been given out. He asks for a reply by wire.
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1904-11-10
President Roosevelt thanks Creighton Webb for the note, but assures him it was not necessary, as Roosevelt “should pay no heed to anything said by so obscene and filthy a publication as Town Topics.”
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1904-11-09
President Roosevelt agrees with Horatio C. King’s opinion of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, and writes that the editor, St. Clair McKelway, “has carried on a campaign of slander and mendacity,” similar to that done by the New York Times under Charles Ransom Miller’s editorship and Adolph S. Ochs’s ownership.
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1904-11-07
President Roosevelt would like a report from Acting Secretary of Commerce and Labor Murray on the investigation of the General Slocum disaster. His request is in response to an editorial published on September 24, 1904, in the Washington Star titled “Self-Applied White Wash.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-09-25