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John Appleton Stewart has been working on the One Thousand Ton Barge Campaign and John J. D. Trenor has been very helpful. Trenor is well connected within the Italian American community and has been tasked with organizing the Italian vote for the campaign. Stewart requests a meeting between Trenor and President Roosevelt.
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1903-06-26
Secretary of State Hay is arranging a meeting between Count Matsukata and President Roosevelt.
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1902-04-05
Seth Bullock agrees that President Roosevelt is “a great chief” and hopes for Roosevelt’s reelection in 1904.
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1902-04-07
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw expresses concern that an attempt to alter the free entrance limit on foreign purchases would cause debate and contention. However, he will pursue modifying the limit at President Roosevelt’s instruction.
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1902-03-19
Herbert G. Squiers requests that General Wood speak to President Roosevelt on his behalf. He would like his conduct during the Boxer Rebellion recognized with a promotion. Squiers was First Secretary of the American Legation in Beijing during the siege of the International Legations. He encloses a dispatch from the British government recognizing his exemplary conduct during the siege.
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1902-03-21
Governor Hunt thanks George B. Cortelyou for sending a photograph of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt to accompany the one of President Roosevelt. He hopes that Alice Roosevelt will be able to visit them in Puerto Rico. Hunt just finished touring the island and everything is “moving along most satisfactorily.”
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1902-03-24
Joseph Bucklin Bishop defends the Roosevelt administration’s decision not to “run amuck” among the country’s corporations in light of the Northern Securities decision. The Democrats are using this decision to attempt to prove that they are more anti-trust than Roosevelt but will only prove that they cannot be trusted to deal with business interests and the economy.
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1904-03-17
Secretary of War Elihu Root would like a meeting with President Roosevelt, Secretary of State John Hay, and Attorney General Philander C. Knox before they begin communicating with Cuban President Tomás Estrada Palma.
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1902-03-24
Jacob H. Schiff is concerned that if the government loses the suit against the Northern Securities Company that President Roosevelt’s prestige will suffer and new more repressive legislation will follow. However, a judicial decision against the Northern Securities Company could adversely effect the railroad industry and “shake the structure upon which our existing prosperity rests.” He asks that his comments be communicated to Roosevelt.
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1902-03-24
On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, his secretary thanks Judge Kruse for the letter. Roosevelt was shocked to hear of Judge Spring’s death.
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1912-10-30
George E. Sipe accepts the decision to reappoint the incumbent postmaster of Harrisonburg, Virginia. Sipe offers to communicate President Roosevelt’s final decision concerning the appointment to Mrs. Paul, the candidate he supported for the position.
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1902-03-11
Jane Addams responds positively to the expression of support from Millicent Garrett Fawcett and the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies for the Progressive Party and the party’s stance on equal suffrage.
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1912-08-26
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary encloses a letter and contribution to the Roosevelt campaign that was sent to The Outlook.
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1912-03-08
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary encloses a letter from Sidney D. Redmond, stating that Roosevelt would like an African American to second his nomination at the Republican National Convention. If Senator Dixon finds Perry Wilson Howard to be the best candidate, the secretary requests that he contact Redmond directly.
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1912-06-11
On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, his secretary thanks Christopher G. Boland for the letter.
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1912-10-30
Frank Harper updates Governor Hadley on the Roosevelt campaign’s expectations for Theodore Roosevelt’s visit and schedule.
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1912
William George Schmittberger of the New York Life Insurance company would like President Roosevelt to invest in the 4% Gold Bond and requests that George B. Cortelyou bring the matter to Roosevelt’s attention.
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1902-03-06
John J. O’Brien, an expert in jiu-jitsu that has trained President Roosevelt, was assaulted by Michael T. Bodkins and Rudolph W. Bower in Boston, Massachusetts. O’Brien successfully defended himself against the two assailants who were subsequently arrested.
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1904-03
William Allen White asks George B. Cortelyou to hold the enclosed letter until President Roosevelt returns from visiting his ailing son Ted.
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1902-02-10
John Edward Addicks reports on the Republican situation in Delaware. L. Heisler Ball had the support of the Union Republicans and was elected with the understanding that Addicks would be able to make the federal appointments if Ball were endorsed. Ball has now lost support and Republicans are bolting from the party. Addicks holds President Roosevelt responsible for dividing the Republicans in Delaware.
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1902-05-05