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President Roosevelt sends Senator Lodge a quotation from William Wordsworth that is similar to a quotation from Charles Dickens.
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1908-03-26
President Roosevelt appreciates receiving the note from Reverend Baltzly and likes the quotation from William Wordsworth that he sent. Roosevelt sends Baltzly a quotation from Charles Dickens about pacifists in return.
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1908-03-26
President Roosevelt assures Judge Wilfley that his letter and explanation are entirely satisfactory, and agrees that knowing the history of the period that William Blackstone was writing in would make the quotation that Wilfley used clear.
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1908-02-29
President Roosevelt tells John E. Semmes that he likes a certain quotation, and wants to use it. Roosevelt feels the same as Semmes that when a person or nation loses its “fighting principles,” they are in a position to be taken over by others.
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1908-01-31
President Roosevelt sent a quotation in his own handwriting to Frederick M. Barton.
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1907-10-31
President Roosevelt thanks Charles H. Huttig for sending a letter from Adolphus Busch, along with his letter.
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1907-10-23
President Roosevelt thanks Mary Elizabeth Schaefer Day for the quotation, which struck him forcibly.
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1907-04-25
President Roosevelt is willing to meet with Edward Henry Harriman, and notes that the public seems to expect that he will do so. However, he requests of Maxwell Evarts that any quotes from the meeting be submitted to him before they are published.
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1907-03-07
President Roosevelt chides Melville Elijah Stone for not properly vetting the statement from Bishop Henry Gabriels, who supposedly quoted Roosevelt. Roosevelt’s records show that the Bishop got the sentiment of the statement correct but did not use Roosevelt’s words, and so the statement should not have been presented as a quote.
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1906-08-09
John Brisben Walker is welcome to write about his interview with President Roosevelt, as long as he does not quote what he said without submitting it to him for approval first. Even with approval, Walker should not give his exact words, but only the substance of what he said.
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1906-02-26
President Roosevelt asks G. O. Shields not to directly quote him or put what he has said in quotation marks. Shields can say that Roosevelt’s views are essentially as he has stated, but he should not actually quote them.
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1906-01-22
President Roosevelt thanks Theodore Ayrault Dodge for sending him the “awfully nice phrase” from French Ambassador J. J. Jusserand.
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1905-10-02
President Roosevelt rebukes John Beattie for quoting a private conversation with him, especially two years after the event. Because the president meets many people, he did not remember meeting Beattie, but emphasized he said nothing to warrant Beattie representing Roosevelt as taking “a definite stand on a matter of such importance as that to which you refer.”
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1904-12-03
President Roosevelt writes to Thomas J. Akins about a letter written by Dr. Albert Shaw. Roosevelt says that Shaw misremembered a phrase that Roosevelt used regarding Joseph Wingate Folk and Cyrus Packard Walbridge. Roosevelt did not say “Walbridge is a better man than Folk,” or make any comparisons between the two. He asks that if Shaw’s letter is in the possession of any Republican committeemen it be immediately withdrawn.
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1904-10-29
President Roosevelt asks Albert Shaw to withdraw a previous letter he wrote, in which Shaw attributed to Roosevelt a comment comparing the candidates for governor of Missouri. Roosevelt wishes to make clear that he could not have made such a comment, as he knows neither candidate, and would of course support the Republican ticket in Missouri. He hopes that Shaw may be able to come visit early in the next week.
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1904-10-29
President Roosevelt writes to Philip Keyes Walcott about a quotation he used in his book The Rough Riders, for which he had forgotten the source. He later found out or remembered it was by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay.
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1904-10-06
President Roosevelt addresses the quotes used by the Democrats against him, claiming one is fake and the other taken out of context.
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1904-08-29
President Roosevelt does not believe that John D. Crimmins made the statements which were attributed to him. He fears the Times is too influenced by partisanship.
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1904-04-05
President Roosevelt is glad that Otto Gresham liked his message and was unaware of the Alphonse de Lamartine quotation and thanks Gresham for it.
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1903-12-11
President Roosevelt was pleased to see Frederick Burgess and thanks him for the quotation and the way it was used.
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1903-10-30