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Theodore Roosevelt writes to William Draper Lewis to inform him that Chester Rowell is working on an abstract for the copies. Roosevelt would like permission to use a statement by Lewis.
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1912-07-01
Theodore Roosevelt sends his regards to Minnie L. McNeal Johnson and his California friends.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911
Theodore Roosevelt is pleased to hear from a Progressive like J. J. Nichols, but suggests that he contact Hiram Johnson, Meyer Lissner, and Chester Rowell, as they are the politicians that Roosevelt follows in California.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-11-27
Theodore Roosevelt asks Governor Johnson to send the enclosed material to Chester H. Rowell.
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1915-08-20
Theodore Roosevelt comments on the defeat of the Progressive Party and the outcome of a recent meeting of party leaders. He notes that William Allen White and Chester H. Rowell were allowed to lead the discussion and determine the party’s public platform. He wished that George W. Perkins had intervened, to reassert that the party is still committed to the progressive principles it stood for in 1912.
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1914-12-11
Theodore Roosevelt relitigates the circumstances surrounding the language and inclusion of the trust plank in the Progressive Party platform. Roosevelt states that he is planning to propose Francis J. Heney as Meyer Lissner’s proxy on the executive committee of the Progressive Party and expresses frustration about the tension between the moderate and radical wings of the party leading to dysfunction.
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1912-12-13
Benjamin Ide Wheeler, president of the University of California, tells President Roosevelt that he will lecture at the University of Berlin on various topics of American life. He asks Roosevelt if he can come to California in August. Wheeler has been out to visit farmers with six other university professors on their “agricultural train,” where the farmers’ dislike of Japanese people was a common subject. Wheeler feels that the California Legislature should do nothing about it, with the matter better left in Roosevelt’s hands.
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1909-02-09
Meyer Lissner sends Edward Augustus Dickson a letter which he hopes Dickson will publicize in order to help Daniel A. Ryan’s election chances in San Francisco. Lissner also tells Dickson that Los Angeles Republicans have been building support for William Howard Taft’s presidential run by passing resolutions in support of both Theodore Roosevelt and Taft.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-10-17
A list of the officers of the League of Lincoln-Roosevelt Republican Clubs of California, including the districts they represent.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-08-01