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President Roosevelt thanks H. E. Miles for the clipping he sent, and for his discretion concerning the discussions he has had with the president. Roosevelt expects to see him in Washington, D.C., soon to discuss a tariff commission and how Roosevelt can get Congress to act.
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1907-07-29
President Roosevelt does not share James H. Eckels’ view on the regulation of corporate business by the government. On the question of the tariff, Roosevelt believes the most important thing is stability.
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1901-10-11
President Roosevelt stands before a corpulent gentleman labeled “U.S. Prosperity,” who is wearing suspenders with a “G.O.P.” emblem. Roosevelt offers him “Tariff Revision Pills, Reciprocity Formula.”
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1905-10-07
President Roosevelt shares his thoughts about his recent inauguration and the work he hopes to do in his second term with Major General Wood. In particular, Roosevelt is proud of his work building up the United States’s battleship fleet. Roosevelt mentions that Secretary of War William H. Taft will travel to the Philippines the upcoming summer.
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1905-03-09
President Roosevelt writes to Joseph Gurney Cannon, Chairman of the Notification Committee, to formally accept his nomination as the Republican presidential candidate and to approve the platform adopted by the Republican National Convention. In the letter, Roosevelt provides a comprehensive defense of his foreign and domestic policies and outlines what he believes are the major differences between the Republican and Democratic parties in the upcoming election. Roosevelt discusses, among other topics, his position on international relations, antitrust legislation, tariffs, the gold standard, pensions for Civil War veterans, the military, civil service, commerce, agriculture, taxation, and self-government in the Philippines.
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1904-09-12
President Roosevelt is distressed at how Representative Burleigh F. Spalding interpreted his statements. What Roosevelt feels and what he is willing to express for quotation regarding the action of the Republican National Convention are different. He must weigh a variety of interests on the party’s tariff plank and wants his public statements to be in line with Republican policy. Roosevelt’s view on the tariff can be ascertained by a meeting with Winthrop Murray Crane or Elihu Root.
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1904-06-15
President Roosevelt fears that the defeat of the Cuban reciprocity treaty will create calls for the reduction of the tariff and further reciprocity in Congress and the Republican party. Roosevelt believes that the protective system is essential for economic well being.
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1903-06-19
President Roosevelt does not favor altering the tariff but due to widespread public support believes that something needs to be done. Roosevelt would like to pass the reciprocity treaties and perhaps appoint a commission to investigate the tariff in order to avoid “partisan agitation.” Roosevelt hopes that the Democrats decide on a tariff policy that allows the Roosevelt administration to “beat them out of their boots.”
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1902-08-12
President Roosevelt confirms there was no basis for the newspaper reports Senator Hale mentioned and hopes to go over tariff policy when they meet next.
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1901-10-26
Senator Hansbrough argues in favor of President Roosevelt’s renomination as the Republican presidential candidate in 1908. He requests feedback on whether or not this view reflects the feelings of the Republicans of North Dakota.
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1907-04-20
Henry Bascom Kelly questions Governor Stubbs’s support for Theodore Roosevelt as the Republican presidential nominee.
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1912-01-26
D. C. Resnick claims that his previous advice has been ignored to President Taft’s detriment. Resnick is disappointed with Taft for his treatment of Theodore Roosevelt, the removal of Roosevelt men in the public service, and support for high tariffs. Resnick believes that if Taft fails to agree to the wool tariff schedule, he can never be elected to a second term.
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1911-07-31
Senator Hansbrough argues in favor of President Roosevelt’s renomination as the Republican presidential candidate in 1908. He requests feedback on whether or not this view reflects the feelings of the Republicans of North Dakota.
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1907-04-20
Secretary of War Taft sends President Roosevelt a copy of a telegram congratulating Taft on receiving the endorsement of the Ohio Republican Party for president in the upcoming election. Taft says that Senator Joseph Benson Foraker is “becoming more personal” in his speeches against Taft and is demanding more detail on Taft’s position of the tariff, the particulars of which Taft says are a matter for Congress, not him.
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1907-07-31
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw responds to a request from President Roosevelt to review a letter from Representative Ebenezer J. Hill. Shaw is skeptical of Representative Hill’s conclusions about denatured alcohol’s potential as fuel. Shaw discusses the proposed McCleary bill, which would adjust American tariffs on German goods, and the potential impact of tariff adjustments on the upcoming midterm election. He believes that Roosevelt could maintain the confidence of the American people by advocating a tariff that ensures American-made goods receive the same treatment as similar goods from any other country.
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1906-09-09
Ambassador Griscom encloses a report by N. I. Stone of the Department of Commerce regarding the value of a tariff reduction similar to the one enjoyed by the U.S. from April 1, 1904, to December 31, 1904.
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1906-08-29
George Otto Trevelyan explains his feelings about Arthur James Balfour, the Leader of the Opposition in Parliament, to President Roosevelt regarding recent financial policies in Great Britain. Trevelyan declares Balfour as “a man of words, and of no knowledge of the crisis.” He laments the depletion of the fund meant to pay off the national debt.
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1906-08-28
Assistant Secretary of State Adee informs William Loeb that all correspondence about German tariffs will be forwarded to President Roosevelt, at his request.
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1905-03-14
Lyman Abbott informs President Roosevelt that he will publish the editorial forwarded by Roosevelt without intimating from where it came. Abbott goes on to say that public interest in the coming election seems languid and he attributes it to a feeling that Roosevelt will inevitably be re-elected. He also predicts that this election will put an end to “individualist or Jeffersonian Democracy” and leave the country with two parties “one populistic or semi-socialistic” and “the Republican party, the party of real though conservative and cautious progress.” Abbott also hopes that Roosevelt will read Abbott’s editorial on tariff reform which Abbott believes should be the Republican party’s stance on the issue as well.
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1904-10-03
The May 1913 edition of The Progressive Bulletin discusses issues related to the Progressive Party, political campaigns, political platforms, and, notably, tariff policy.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1913-05