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President Roosevelt will do his best to secure tents from the War Department, but he will not speak at the church Henry St. George Tucker referred to. Both he and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt want to go privately to Brandon, Westover, and a third place.
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1907-01-11
President Roosevelt is attempting to send a warship to Natchez, Mississippi, for Mardi Gras, as Senator McLaurin requested.
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1907-01-08
President Roosevelt tells Senator Proctor that he could not ask General James Franklin Bell to waive his claim yet again, and the War Department felt like Brigadier General Stephen Perry Jocelyn’s promotion a few months ago was adequate. Roosevelt apologizes but notes that General William Spencer McCaskey and Bell would each have to be considered for a promotion before Jocelyn.
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1906-12-20
President Roosevelt would like General Davis’s opinion on Captain Street. As Secretary of War Elihu Root is absent, Davis should inform Assistant Secretary William Cary Sanger that Roosevelt has asked for Davis’s assistance in the matter.
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1901-10-19
President Roosevelt asks if the flag in the Navy Department can also be used as the president’s flag in the War Department.
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1901-10-12
President Roosevelt is happy to hear that Secretary of War Root is going to the Adirondacks and would like to issue directions that he should not be interrupted by messages from the War Department. Roosevelt appreciates the letter from General Grenville Mellen Dodge and will return it for Root’s private files.
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1901-10-01
President Roosevelt promises Senator Pritchard to look into the case of his son, William D. Pritchard. He states, however, that he has refused to interfere in candidates being made First Lieutenants, and that he has instructed the War Department that such appointments should only be made on the basis of merit.
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1901-09-28
President Roosevelt will look into the case of Senator Pritchard’s son. However, Roosevelt does not interfere in the appointment of candidates to First Lieutenant and has directed the War Department to make assignments based on merit only.
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1901-09-28
President Roosevelt writes to Curtis Guild responding to his previous letter. Guild had enclosed a letter, which Roosevelt returns, and remarks that it slightly prejudiced him against the author. Roosevelt promises to show something to the War Department. He also remarks on someone’s record, and is anxious to hear what Guild has to say on reciprocity.
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1901-09-28
President Roosevelt has received many requests to exert his influence in the appointment of first lieutenants. It has given Roosevelt great pleasure to be able to say that the War Department is grading candidates purely on their merits.
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1901-09-27
President Roosevelt would like an estimate of the number of staff vacancies which Assistant Secretary Sanger expects to fill over the course of the next year.
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1901-09-27
President Roosevelt will ask the War Department to report on an unnamed case.
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1901-09-26
Joel A. Hayes writes to Theodore Roosevelt about development projects along the waterfront in Oakland, California. Hayes is concerned that Secretary of War, Henry L. Stimson, is allowing the railroads to modify the harbor line by constructing a sea wall and drudging the bay, which would permanently alter the waterfront.
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1911-09-26
Gustavus M. Middleton informs Theodore Roosevelt that he also contacted President William H. Taft for information and was directed by the War Department to a government publication, The Restoration of the White House, which details repairs and improvements made to the Executive Mansion during Roosevelt’s presidency.
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1911-09-12
Francis P. Joyce asks Theodore Roosevelt for support in establishing a Hamilton Fish Memorial Chapel at Fort Russell, Wyoming.
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1911-09-11
In a copied letter, Henry W. Fischer, exchange editor for the New York American, asks Auditor of the War Department Benjamin F. Harper about Secretary of War William H. Taft’s compensation.
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1907-09-05
Secretary of War Taft updates President Roosevelt regarding the management of the National Parks. Superintendent of Yellowstone National Park S. B. M. Young would prefer rangers to the military, and Taft agrees with him, but Congress is putting the responsibility of park management on the War Department rather than the Department of the Interior. Taft warns that he accidentally engaged in cards on a Sunday, in case the press finds out. While traveling, he saw Secretary of Commerce and Labor Oscar S. Straus, and they discussed both Japanese naturalization and immigration of Russian Jews. Taft briefly lists his upcoming speeches.
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1907-09-04
William Emlen Roosevelt writes to Theodore Roosevelt that his telegraph company received the license they signed the other day. Roosevelt also writes that nobody has escaped the shrinkage in the value of property and he brings up the idea of a national incorporation of railroads.
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1907-03-28
John F. Stevens informs Secretary of War Taft that Colonel Goethals will become the chief engineer in Panama.
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1907-03-21
Chief Engineer of the Panama Canal, John F. Stevens, asks Secretary of War Taft if he should give permission for a group of steam shovel operators looking for increased wages to visit Washington.
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1907-03-06