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Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary relays to W. O. Hart that due to schedule changes, Roosevelt is unable to visit the Soldiers’ Home at Camp Beauregard, New Orleans.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-01
Theodore Roosevelt is glad the Spanish War veterans support preparedness. He hopes they will back it up to the limit by going for universal military training, which he thinks is absolutely essential to the country. Roosevelt is not able to make any promises about a speech, and he recommends Dwight Logan Loughborough get in touch with Medill McCormick.
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1916-01-03
Theodore Roosevelt is glad to hear that Dodge City is starting a “Spanish War Veterans Post.”
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1915-03-18
Theodore Roosevelt is encouraged by what Laclen Smith writes about Colonel Mosby. However, Roosevelt is not able to be of service since “There is nothing in the world in which I could interest Mr. Carnegie.”
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1914-11-30
President Roosevelt thanks Annie M. Smith, who described herself as “a little lady of sixty-three, a widow of a civil war veteran,” for the letter.
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1909-02-02
President Roosevelt will not attend the Memorial Day commemoration at Indianapolis unless the people who organized the statue of General Henry Ware Lawton and those representing the Grand Army of the Republic reconcile their differences. Roosevelt tells Vice President Fairbanks that the veterans of the Spanish-American War should give precedence to those of the Civil War, since the latter conflict was of “infinitely greater nature” than the former and they are much older. Fairbanks should not make this public, but “any celebration of Memorial Day must be primarily a Grand Army celebration.”
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1907-04-16
President Roosevelt has read Charles H. True’s letter about his Civil War record with interest.
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1907-04-06
President Roosevelt appreciates Frank Basil Tracy’s letter about the Moro fight. He will be admitted by the usher Major Charles D. A. Loeffler, a Civil War veteran. Loeffler once shared his experience of attacking a Comanche camp and how sorry he felt.
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1906-03-17
President Roosevelt tells Mrs. Moore Murdock that it was a pleasure to meet the veterans of the Mexican War and their families at the White House.
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1906-03-01
President Roosevelt tells J. L. Underwood that he likes to hear from confederate veterans, but the incidents Underwood described concerning his mother Martha Bulloch Roosevelt and grandmother Martha Bulloch never happened. Roosevelt’s grandmother was “very infirm” during the Civil War and he does not believe she ever lived in Philadelphia.
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1905-11-20
President Roosevelt tells George Otto Trevelyan how much he liked his letter and book. Roosevelt is especially keen about Trevelyan’s description of a “Greek War” in modern terms, and even agrees with his “carefully guarded statement” about wanting to live in Ancient Greece. Roosevelt also discusses the Civil War connections on his personal staff.
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1905-10-07
President Roosevelt regrets that he cannot accept the invitation of William E. English, Commander-in-Chief of the United Spanish War Veterans, to attend the upcoming reunion at Milwaukee. He asks English to pass along his warmest regards to the veterans with whom he served.
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1905-08-28
President Roosevelt congratulates Vice President Fairbanks on his recent success at Ogdensburg, New York. He asks that Fairbanks inform him when he will be returning, and invites him to spend the night or have lunch with him at Sagamore Hill.
Vice President Fairbanks recently spoke to an assembled crowd of veterans at the unveiling of a monument commemorating the soldiers of Oswegatichie who fought and died in the Civil War.
President Roosevelt thanks Ohio Representative Henry for forwarding a gift from a Civil War veteran, Nathaniel C. Cook. Roosevelt has sent Cook a personal note.
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1905-03-08
President Roosevelt tells Rachel Sherman Thorndike he will be pleased to meet the English actor Sir Charles Wyndham, and was pleased to learn that he served in the the Civil War.
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1905-03-02
President Roosevelt thanks Joseph B. Potter for his letter and is “most sincerely proud” of him as a veteran.
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1905-01-19
President Roosevelt agrees with William E. English, but offers the provisos that Civil War veterans should have “the right of the line,” and that he had already promised members of his own regiment and the New York Squadron they could be his personal escort. Roosevelt will discuss the matter with General John M. Wilson, chairman of his inaugural committee, to see if he can arrange the escort as English wishes.
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1904-11-30
President Roosevelt thanks Deputy Commissioner of Pensions Davenport for his work in the Bureau of Pensions and believes he has done an excellent job in the bureau. However, the president hopes to appoint a veteran from the West since many veterans live in Western states and offered the position to Missouri District Attorney William Warner, but does not know if he will accept.
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1904-12-23
President Roosevelt asks Secretary of Commerce and Labor Metcalf to investigate whether Emma Tabberrah is able to perform the duties of lighthouse keeper that her deceased husband William H. Tabberrah used to hold. If she is able, Roosevelt requests that the position be given to her.
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1904-12-10
President Roosevelt asks Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock to allow Commissioner of Pensions James L. Davenport to send Mrs. Moore Murdock a list of the Mexican War veterans. He advises, however, that Davenport can put any conditions necessary to prevent improper use of the list, and that this does not need to be a precedent for future action.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-12-08