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This pamphlet includes copies of two acts pertaining to presidential and vice-presidential electors with a statement on the cover indicating that the Department of State has no information about the presidential election for distribution.
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1904-12-19
Governor White denies the validity of a newspaper story about President Roosevelt’s behavior during the election of 1900.
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1904-12-05
Governor Roosevelt expresses his concern about his sister’s health. Roosevelt writes about his anxiety over running for Vice President and accepting the nomination.
1900-06-26
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary gives Albert W. Beebee the dates that Roosevelt was in office as Vice President and President as well as the names of those with whom he served.
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1912-06-08
President Roosevelt congratulates J. S. Sherman on his election as Vice-President.
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1908-11-03
President Roosevelt responds to Elbert F. Baldwin’s letter advocating for John Hays Hammond to become the vice presidential candidate. Roosevelt says that he does not want to be involved in the nomination for that position. He notes that if Hammond were not Baldwin’s friend and Hammond approached Roosevelt, Baldwin would likely write a letter in the Outlook criticizing Roosevelt.
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1908-06-08
President Roosevelt accepts Senator Fairbanks’s resignation ahead of his inauguration as vice-president in two days.
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1905-03-02
President Roosevelt has reviewed Senator Fairbanks’ speech and recommends that he take out the allusion to diminished revenues. He also suggests that Fairbanks point out that the Philippines “pay their own way.”
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1904-09-08
President Roosevelt congratulates Senator Fairbanks on his nomination for Vice-President.
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1904-06-23
Senator Dixon jokes that early indications show Jack Johnson leading Booker T. Washington for the vice presidency on the Progressive Party ticket.
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1912-11-05
Senator Dixon forwards a telegram from Sidney Williams announcing Theodore Roosevelt’s victory in the California primary. Williams is confident that Governor Johnson will be the Republican candidate for vice president. Two telegrams with same content.
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1912-05-16
Elbert F. Baldwin forwards President Roosevelt the text of a note from Charles Evans Hughes, in which Hughes declines the vice-presidential nomination for the Taft ticket. Baldwin is going over to Secretary of War Taft’s house to show him the message in person.
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1908-06-19
John A. Sleicher warns President Roosevelt that he does not feel that the Republican Party is in good shape in New York State, but that he thinks the presidential ticket would be safe if Governor Charles Evans Hughes were on it as vice president. Hughes has previously expressed that he is not interested in the vice presidency, but Sleicher suggests that if Secretary of War William H. Taft is nominated for the presidency, Roosevelt should personally contact Hughes and ask him to reconsider. Sleicher is somewhat worried about the elections in the fall, and thinks that it will be perilous for the Republican Party.
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1908-06-12
President Roosevelt admires his painting of William H. Taft—”my candidate for president”—and says, “Nice work.” There is a picture of “James S. Sherman for vice-president” on the wall, which Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon points at and says, “Oh! I don’t know — he’s one of us.”
This cartoon by Joseph Harry Cunningham was published four days after the closing gavel of the 1908 Republican National Convention. It presents an accurate depiction of the convention results, as well as the relative positions of the candidates, the president, and the Old Guard party stalwarts, who are represented by Speaker Joseph Gurney Cannon.
President Roosevelt holds a paintbrush and thinks as he paints a banner. The top part says: “my candidate, my policies, my platforms.” On the left is William H. Taft “for president,” but the vice president on the right is not completed.
In this clever cartoon by C. R. Macauley of the New York World, its point is not that President Roosevelt needed to wonder about, or dictate, the Republican vice-presidential nominee at the imminent national convention. At this time the selection of those candidates was strictly left to convention delegates or party bosses, never the “top of the ticket.”
Nicholas Murray Butler discusses three political issues involving the upcoming Presidential election.
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1904-03-07
Governor Roosevelt states that upon his return to Sagamore Hill he will promptly send his book on Oliver Cromwell to General Johnson and he suggests that the General read one of his favorite books, Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War by G. F. R. Henderson. Roosevelt regrets that due to his busy schedule he will not be able to visit the General until after he takes the office of the Vice President, but before doing so he hopes to visit Colorado for a hunting trip.
1900-12-04
Nicholas Murray Bulter has just come across the enclosed article in the Philadelphia Press, which speculates on President Roosevelt’s likely running mate in 1904.
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1903-06-22
Wayne MacVeagh sends Vice President Roosevelt a clipping from the Philadelphia Ledger, a Republican paper that has always supported him. MacVeagh writes that the treaty with the British will suit Roosevelt’s views if Roosevelt speaks with them courteously but firmly. If Roosevelt decides that the current treaty should simply repeal the previous Clatyon-Bulwer treaty, that is all it will do. Finally, MacVeagh reminds Roosevelt that “the plain people” from the West have always supported him and will continue to do so if he remains true to himself.
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1901-10-07
Washington Hastings encloses an article that advocates for Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt as a candidate for the Vice Presidency. Hastings then notifies Senator Lodge that he will be in St. Louis assisting with the political campaign there.
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1896-06-03