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President Roosevelt is willing to help W. M. Phillips but has little opportunity to know when there are openings on newspapers. Roosevelt suggests that Phillips find an opening and then he could write for Phillips.
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1903-12-07
President Roosevelt cannot join Allison for the fox hunt and would not wish reporters around for it.
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1903-10-08
President Roosevelt asks William Cullen Bryant to convey his greetings to the New York Press Club.
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1902-01-18
Reginald M. Bryan explains to Theodore Roosevelt that the enclosed article lacks credence. It is a perversion of his interview about the settlement of the 1902 coal strike. Either the reporter or the editor included Roosevelt’s name to ensure the article received attention. Bryan deplores how the press misconstrues important business matters.
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1911-11-03
James Bronson Reynolds appreciates Theodore Roosevelt’s speech and comments on the judiciary and recalls of speech he gave long ago in the East Side of New York City.
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1911-10-21
J. W. Clayton informs the editor of the New York Press that for years he has been an admirer of The Press for serving the public with no other interest but he recently has had to turn to yellow journalism for the truth regarding an article about an address by Theodore Roosevelt.
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1911-10-21
Mark A. Matthews writes Theodore Roosevelt, as he is interested in many of the topics Roosevelt has recently discussed. Matthews thinks that regular people have no leader or opportunity to express themselves. He lays out five factors working against “the common people” of the United States. These include: “a certain class of national banks and their manipulators”, “public service corporations”, “the great liquor interests”, “the subsidized press and the Morgan-ized magazine”, and finally “the under-world with all of its filth, crime and debauchery.” Matthews hopes to speak with Roosevelt personally about these things.
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1911-06-17
Charles H. Sergel, on behalf of The Press Club of Chicago, requests Theodore Roosevelt lecture for them in the near future on any subject of his choosing during his upcoming trip to Chicago. The Press Club is requesting his help lecturing for a public audience in an effort to pay their mortgage.
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1911-05-10
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1911-03-22
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Frank M. Chapman informs President Roosevelt he received the check for the binoculars and views it a privilege to assist Roosevelt. Several newspapers have published inaccurate reports regarding Kermit Roosevelt’s preparations for the Africa trip. Chapman wants both Roosevelt and Kermit to know he is not responsible for such reports.
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1908-08-18
Herbert H. D. Peirce reaffirms that he was not responsible for a press leak and encloses a letter for President Roosevelt.
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1905-08-23
Postcard advertisement showing Theodore Roosevelt standing in front of the Sioux Falls Press Prize Automobile. Text on the front of the postcard states Roosevelt rode in the vehicle on September 4, 1910. Text on the reverse advertises various prizes to be won from a subscription contest through The Sioux Falls Daily Press, including cars, pianos, diamond rings, gold watches, and more.
1910
A powder boy hands cannonballs to the “press” to fire from a fort with several cannons and flags, including “Philadelphia Press,” “N.Y. Times,” “N.Y. Sun,” and “Southern Press.” They fire two cannon balls—”no Negro offices” and “no race equality”—at the Gibraltar of “justice” tower with a Republican elephant and where President Roosevelt stands.
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1903-12-26
A note states that letters from President Roosevelt and Attorney General William H. Moody were given to the press on December 15, but should not be published before December 18.
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1905-12-15
Otto Gresham discusses support for Theodore Roosevelt’s re-election in Indiana.
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1904-04-27
An elderly man labeled “The Law,” with a long beard and holding a broken gun labeled “Fines,” peers at a group of bloated criminals standing and sitting on the porch of “The Jolly Grafter’s Inn, Successor to Ye Stern Justice” who are laughing at the old man before them. Those on the porch are labeled “Big Offender, Respectable Crook, Handy Judge [with a glass of] Judicial Favors, Corporate Lawyer [with mugs of] Legal Aid, Tax Dodger, Special Privilege, Insurance Grafter, Corrupt Business, Rail Road Merger, [and the] Oil, Coal, [and] Beef Trust[s].” On a table is a newspaper labeled “The Daily Graft,” and growling at the man is a dog labeled “Subsidized Press.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1907-02-13
A group of senators (labeled Aldrich, Frye, Spooner, Penrose, Tillman, Bailey, Foraker, and Elkins) dressed as Native Americans perform a war dance around a totem pole with the face of President Theodore Roosevelt carved at the top. A drum labeled “The Press” is in the foreground while “Tom” and “Chauncey” stand in the background. Caption: Recent despatches from the Washington reservation report that the Senator Indians are again on the war path.
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1907-01-16
President Roosevelt addresses journalist Ernest Harvier’s editorial in The Sunday Democrat involving his handling of an incident related to Maria Longworth Storer.
1906-04-18
Herman Henry Kohlsaat, an employee of the Chicago Times-Herald, encloses “two editions on your friend Wood,” presumably Leonard Wood, and suggests Governor Roosevelt might like to forward them on to Wood.
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1899-08-01