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Attorney General Moody writes to President Roosevelt regarding Moody’s appointment of Assistant District Attorney Cushman to the role of Attorney General special assistant. Moody wishes for news of this appointment to be kept quiet.
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1905-01-26
Frank Harper informs Senator Poindexter of Theodore Roosevelt’s speaking schedule in Washington State. Roosevelt will speak in Spokane, Seattle, and Tacoma. Harper requests that Poindexter explain the physical and temporal limitations of Roosevelt to any further Washington towns that request a speech.
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1912-08-21
Theodore Roosevelt thanks John Edgar Rhodes for his telegram and appreciates his work at the Tacoma Tribune.
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1912-05-31
Theodore Roosevelt is surprised at the clipping that E. L. Moriarty sent. Roosevelt has never given his opinion to William W. Seymour’s opponent. Roosevelt did not express himself publicly or privately about the election while in Tacoma.
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1911-05-16
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary thanks Mrs. D. G. Newell for the clipping she sent to Roosevelt.
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1911-02-21
Theodore Roosevelt discusses details of the western tour with Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
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1911-02-17
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary asks Andrew Klebe to contact Senator Miles Poindexter regarding Roosevelt’s travel arrangements in Tacoma, Washington.
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1911-02-16
Theodore Roosevelt declines the invitation from Mayor John P. Kiggins to include Vancouver, Washington, in his western states tour.
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1911-02-16
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary asks James T. Blakistone to contact Senator Miles Poindexter regarding Roosevelt’s travel arrangements in the state of Washington.
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1911-02-16
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary provides Senator Chamberlain with an itinerary of the dates that Roosevelt will depart various cities on his West Coast tour.
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1911-02-07
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary informs George B. Burke that Roosevelt intends to visit Tacoma, Washington, in the spring. Burke should contact Senator Miles Poindexter to discuss details and make definite arrangements.
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1911-02-04
Regretfully, Theodore Roosevelt cannot visit Tacoma, Washington, as Lorenzo Dow requests, as he already has two speaking engagements in the state.
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1911-01-24
President Roosevelt sends James M. Ashton the text of a report from Secretary of the Interior James Rudolph Garfield regarding three suits regarding the title of tide lands near Tacoma, Washington, which have been claimed by the Puyallup tribes. Roosevelt agrees with Garfield’s assessment that all three suits should be prosecuted to a conclusion.
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1908-06-08
President Roosevelt’s schedule will be controlled by the local committee while he is in Tacoma, but he appreciates the invitation to Montgomery W. Hawks’s home.
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1903-04-24
A. H. Barnes addresses a note to Theodore Roosevelt: “In compliment of our greatest mountain “Tacoma.”
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1911-07-11
Charlotte Louise Watt Bogle admonishes The Outlook and editor Elbert F. Baldwin for a letter encouraging Theodore Roosevelt to endorse William W. Seymour in the Tacoma, Washington mayoral election. She provides some local political context, and cautions The Outlook to be more careful with crediting statements by Tacoma politicians in the future.
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1911-05
E. L. Moriarty encloses a clipping from a Tacoma paper that quotes the Outlook on the Tacoma mayoral race. He gives an account of the race and blames enfranchised women for ousting Mayor Angelo V. Fawcett. He explains how, during Theodore Roosevelt’s visit to Tacoma, locals were gauging his support of the candidates. He and the people would welcome an official statement from Roosevelt to clear up the rumors.
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1911-05-08
George B. Burke informs Theodore Roosevelt that William W. Seymour was elected mayor of Tacoma, Washington, by a majority of one thousand over Angelo V. Fawcett.
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1911-04-18
Joseph J. Churchyard requests an interview with Theodore Roosevelt in Tacoma, Washington. The meeting regards several acts of governmental injustice that grew out of misinterpreting policies instituted during Roosevelt’s administration. Churchyard knows many prominent men in Buffalo, New York.
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1911-04-04
Edward Grigg sends Theodore Roosevelt a copy of a letter of introduction from Viscount Alfred Harnsworth Northcliffe.
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1911-03-31