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Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary writes to Thornton O. Munford in defense of Roosevelt’s platform.
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1912-07-08
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary refers Robert M. Wagstaff to published copies of speeches by Roosevelt to obtain Roosevelt’s opinion on the question Wagstaff raised.
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1912-05-13
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary sends Lyndon B. Tewksbury a copy of Roosevelt’s Columbus speech.
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1912-04-23
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary thanks Charles M. Woodbury for sending the booklet and the copy of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.
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1911-04-22
Theodore Roosevelt admires a letter from Henry Wise Wood. He expresses his disgust with President Woodrow Wilson’s recent speech and does not believe Wilson understands America’s military needs. Roosevelt compares Wilson’s policy with President Thomas Jefferson’s unrealistic plan to have America’s navy consist entirely of gunboats. Roosevelt says he will keep pressing for the United States to become a naval power and may give a public statement in response to Wilson’s speech.
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1915-11-08
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Lawrence Godkin for publishing Dr. White’s statement. Roosevelt states the German American propaganda reflected poorly on President Wilson’s administration.
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1915-09-01
Theodore Roosevelt makes changes to the topics of an interview he is giving Vira Boarman Whitehouse, saying he thinks little of parades and does not wish to discuss his previous statements about people getting tired of him. Roosevelt also asks Whitehouse to determine which parts of one of his speeches she wants to use. He expresses pleasure at having met her one recent evening.
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1915-03-18
Theodore Roosevelt tells British medievalist and lexicographer R. J. Whitwell that it is no use for him to advise neutral nations beyond what he has already in his book America and the World War, where he addresses the issue of Belgium.
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1915-03-05
Theodore Roosevelt declines to give American women’s suffrage activist Vira Boarman Whitehouse an interview. Roosevelt is taking a hiatus, of perhaps a year, from giving political speeches or interviews, although he will make an exception for cases like a benefit for the New York unemployed where he had spoken recently.
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1915-03-05
President Roosevelt has received Representative Bates’s recent letter but cannot comply with his request to give a speech because it would make redundant his obligation to give an address at the dedication of the McKinley National Memorial in Canton, Ohio. Roosevelt will send Bates’s request to Secretary of State Root but cannot speculate on his reaction.
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1907-06-28
President Roosevelt was pleased to see A. Lawrence Lowell and his wife Anna Parker Lowell, but cannot fulfill Lowell’s request and speak at Harvard University the next Fall. Roosevelt believes the immigration bill being passed is “first-class” and agrees with Lowell’s position on the matter.
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1907-02-18
President Roosevelt congratulates Senator Hopkins on his speech during the expulsion case of Senator Reed Smoot.
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1907-02-18
President Roosevelt congratulates Senator Knox for his speech about Senator Reed Smoot which “needed a brave man to deliver it.”
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1907-02-15
President Roosevelt declines an invitation from Earlham College President Robert Lincoln Kelly to speak there. Roosevelt has refused “literally a score of invitations” to speak at educational institutions on his upcoming trip.
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1907-02-10
President Roosevelt has heard that Representative Bennet wants him to give a special message on behalf of the Immigration Commission, but does not believe that that would be wise. Roosevelt thinks that Congress does not appreciate his special messages, and is unsure what good one would do in this case. He believes a public investigation would be more effective than a congressional committee.
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1907-02-06
President Roosevelt has heard that Representative Littauer wants him to give a special message on behalf of the Immigration Commission, but does not believe that that would be wise. Roosevelt thinks that Congress does not appreciate his special messages, and is unsure what good one would do in this case. He believes a public investigation would be more effective than a congressional committee.
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1907-02-06
President Roosevelt thanks Senator Allison for his kind words concerning Roosevelt’s acceptance speech.
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1904-08-02
President Roosevelt tells Thomas F. Woodlock of the Wall Street Journal that Woodlock is one of the few people whose criticism he heeds. Roosevelt was surprised by Woodlock’s critical editorial about Roosevelt’s July 26 speech accepting the Republican Party’s nomination for the 1904 presidential election, especially considering Roosevelt believes the speech reflected a previous discussion between himself and Woodlock. Roosevelt invites Woodlock to meet with him in the next week to discuss the wording of his official acceptance letter.
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1904-07-30
President Roosevelt advises Elihu Root about the speech that Root will make as temporary chairman of the convention. The chairman can take all the time he wishes, and Edward Oliver Wolcott spoke for about an hour in 1900. Roosevelt believes that the speech will go well, and Root will have everyone’s attention.
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1904-06-11
President Roosevelt wonders if Elihu Root has had a chance to see Mr. Black’s speech. Roosevelt hopes that nothing will offend independents or cost them potential votes. Roosevelt wants to know when he will see Root and mentions attending Secretary of State John Hay’s speech in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Republican Party.
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1904-06-09