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Robert Lincoln O’Brien has enclosed a newspaper clipping showing what he is doing to build up anticipation for the talk that Joseph Bucklin Bishop, executive secretary of the Isthmian Canal Commission, will be giving in Boston, Massachusetts, on Tuesday.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-12-14
Robert Lincoln O’Brien asks William Loeb to inform President Roosevelt that he believes Charles J. Bonaparte is the proper person to write the article that Roosevelt alluded to in a recent conversation.
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1904-08-16
George W. Pearson greatly admires President Roosevelt’s policies of “rugged honesty and efficiency” against the graft and corruption that is rampant in the government. Pearson is bothered that men seem so “lost to honor or manhood” as to try and discredit a president who is trying to perform his duties fearlessly and honestly.
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1904-01-13
Charles A. Bailey questions why Vice President Roosevelt allows the newspapers, especially the Albany Argus, to write unflattering pieces about him.
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1901-01-31
President Roosevelt urges Secretary of War Root to have the Surgeon General investigate the publication of reports by surgeons in the Philippines about state regulation of prostitution and other topics.
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1902-03-15
Theodore Roosevelt thanks F. S. Phillips for his letter and replies that the article which Phillips enclosed is the result of cheap journalism and not worth a response.
1911-10-05
Theodore Roosevelt comments on an article that discusses policy towards German actions.
1914-10-02
Theodore Roosevelt describes the two most important demands to the spirit of American nationalism, saying there is no room for divided allegiances and that Americans should only use the English language. He also makes frequent references to German nationalism in America. A note on the back of the manuscript says it was published in the Metropolitan magazine in July 1918, and this particular copy was sent to Julius Holz per Roosevelt’s request.
1918
Theodore Roosevelt informs C. H. Linville that he enjoyed his letter to the editor of the Sun. He goes on to criticize an article published by the Sun regarding a statement made by President Wilson. Roosevelt also comments on the press’ reactions to several of his own statements.
1917-01-11
Sterling E. Edmunds sends copies of the editorials he wrote for the St. Louis Chronicle. Edmunds’s opinion of President Roosevelt changed from a negative one to a positive one over the course of the election.
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1904-11-28
Eugene Foss forwarded these several clippings from the Boston Globe, Boston Transcript, and the Boston Herald to President Roosevelt, demonstrating his efforts to correct inaccurate statements about Roosevelt’s views on the tariff.
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1904-11-22
Theodore Roosevelt comments on the Christian Register‘s reporting of Roosevelt’s activities in Provincetown. Roosevelt also discusses how he dealt with the Freemasons in Rome.
1910-05-12
President Roosevelt thanks Ambassador Egan for sending him a magazine and paper. Roosevelt also comments on the press’ portrayal of himself and expresses his disapproval for the “American craze” for royal titles and marrying foreigners.
1908-12-07
Theodore Roosevelt writes to his sister Anna about a recent newspaper article and new horses being delivered to his ranch. Wilmot Dow had two horses stolen. Roosevelt has also been hunting and shot a ram.
1884-12-14
William Loeb encloses a note from the managing editor of the New York Tribune, James Martin, and a clipping of an article by A. Maurice Low. Loeb writes that he has arranged what will be Low’s last interview with President Roosevelt due to the nature of the articles Low has been writing.
1906-06-13
Theodore Roosevelt writes his sister Anna telling her about the happenings at his ranch. The cattle are doing well and he has been doing a lot of hunting. He adds the interview that appeared in the St. Paul’s Dispatch was completely made up.
1884-06-17
“Harper’s Weekly errs in classing the Providence Journal with the newspapers ‘which opposed Bryan and support Parker.'”
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1904-08-25
Theodore Roosevelt assures Anna Sloan Bissell that the information printed in the Sun regarding his payment of taxes while fighting in Cuba during the Spanish-American War was false.
1910-10-20
President Roosevelt writes to the editor of The Outlook, Lyman Abbott, regarding edits to an article. He also expresses his opinion about “Seaman,” whom he describes as an “extreme political prohibitionist,” unreliable and vain.
1905-10-03