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President Roosevelt is trying to see if Senator Thomas Collier Platt will endorse William Sidney Rossiter for Public Printer. He knows of R. R. Bowker but asks Postmaster General Cortelyou if Bowker is “kind of a mugwump.”
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1905-09-08
President Roosevelt informs Ellen Grant Sartoris he would like to appoint her son, Algernon Edward Sartoris, but there are one or two other men he is anxious to place as well. Given Algernon’s “unwise publication” last year, Roosevelt is still trying to figure out if he can get Algernon’s name through the Senate.
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1905-06-05
President Roosevelt requests more information from Senator Proctor about the alleged promise he made with General Francis Safford Dodge to appoint Hugh J. Gallagher.
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1905-05-27
President Roosevelt believes Bernard Moses would do well but has several other men to place first. He is interested in what Benjamin Ide Wheeler says about the Senate and the railroad rates.
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1905-05-29
President Roosevelt believes Senator Dick misunderstood the conversation with William Loeb, concluding that no action would be taken. Instead, Roosevelt wants to resolve the matter of appointments immediately. Roosevelt chastises Dick for failing to communicate directly with him on multiple occasions.
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1905-05-31
President Roosevelt apologizes to William Dudley Foulke that he has already made all the appointments for 1907. He will review Fechet’s case but does not expect much.
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1905-05-31
President Roosevelt informs Frances Monroe Robinson that he never appoints the sons of anyone except regular army and navy officers.
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1905-03-23
In response to the letter from Harry A. Strohm, President Roosevelt tells Senator Beveridge that he hesitated due to the bad precedent that taking action would set. He hopes that they can appoint Strohm to a position at some point.
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1905-03-21
President Roosevelt tells Senator Proctor that the appointment to replace David Henry Jarvis as Collector of Customs for Alaska has already been made. He also asks why Assistant Secretary of the Navy Charles Hial Darling will stay in his current position until September and asks if his transfer to the position of Collector of Customs in Vermont could be made in June.
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1905-03-21
President Roosevelt informs Cecil Andrew Lyon that he cannot appoint two of Lyon’s suggestions to diplomatic posts, but will fill most of the appointments in Texas with his recommendations. Roosevelt will join Lyon for a bear hunt while in Texas.
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1905-02-20
President Roosevelt thanks William H. Hunter for the editorial and for understanding the “Bat Masterson” type. He is glad to appoint men like Bat Masterson, who are “real survivors of the Viking age.” Masterson’s record is clean as far as Roosevelt knows. However, he admits a few appointees, like Ben Daniels, engaged in activities they should not have during their youth. Regardless, Roosevelt considers these men better “than many a smug citizen who looks down on them.”
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1905-02-09
President Roosevelt thanks William Mann Irvine for the kind letter. He will discuss Blair’s case with Attorney General William H. Moody and the representatives from Washington. Roosevelt has no power to appoint anyone without the Senate confirming them, which will not happen unless one senator from the state approves.
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1905-02-09
President Roosevelt tells Charles Emory Smith that he will appoint Judge Hosea Townsend even though he feels Townsend is a little too old. He will also do his best to take care of Smith’s friend.
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1905-02-11
Regretfully, President Roosevelt has not yet found a position in Alaska for Henry K. Love.
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1905-02-06
President Roosevelt endorses Edgar R. Champlin to Assistant Secretary of State Loomis as a candidate to send to San Domingo as a commissioner. He believes Champlin to be a better candidate than James Rockwell, although Rockwell is also qualified. He wonders, if more than one commissioner is required, if Alastair Penrose Gordon-Cumming would be a good fit for the sort of work required.
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1905-01-25
President Roosevelt shares with Fairfax Henry Wheelan his approach to filling various kinds of appointments.
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1905-01-25
President Roosevelt hopes George B. Cortelyou, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, will appoint West Virginian Charles F. Teter as an assistant. He attests to Teter’s qualifications but leaves the decision to Cortelyou.
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1905-01-28
As the naval vacancy was filled, President Roosevelt informs Cardinal James Gibbons that Father Edward J. Rengel is to be examined for an appointment in the army.
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1905-01-17
While President Roosevelt regards Paul A. G. d’Hauteville as a “good young fellow,” his foreign education makes him less desirable for a foreign post than a similarly suitable candidate educated in the United States.
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1905-01-17
President Roosevelt would have to remove Frank W. Howbert to make room for Sherman M. Bell, and he cannot make promises without “full and thorough knowledge of the subject.” He is sorry he cannot immediately do as Howbert wishes. Roosevelt sends his regards to Bell’s wife, Mary Effie Hannon Bell, on the recent birth of their baby.
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1905-01-21