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President Roosevelt informs Maurice Francis Egan that he is interested in the bronze sculpture by John Boyle. However, Roosevelt notes that he cannot accept it as he has written a letter endorsing Boyle for a commission, which he encloses. He asks Egan to inquire about the price of the sculpture.
1907-06-08
Transcript from the Panama Canal Appropriation discussion. Secretary of War William H. Taft, as well as Senators Shonts, Hall, Perkins, Wetmore, and Warren discuss various issues regarding the salaries of the Chief Engineer John Frank Stevens, as well as the use of auditors.
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1905-12-21
President Roosevelt sends Robert W. De Forest a letter of introduction for his colleague Senator George Peabody Wetmore. Wetmore is interested in expanding the YMCA for sailors.
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1907-06-08
President Roosevelt tells Maurice Francis Egan that he wants to accept the bronze sculpture that John Boyle sent him. However, he does not feel that it would be fair to the competition, so he cannot accept it. Roosevelt wants Egan to contact Boyle to know how much the bronze figure costs so Roosevelt might discretely purchase it later.
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1907-06-08
President Roosevelt sends Helen Miller Gould Shepard a letter of introduction for Senator George Peabody Wetmore. Roosevelt knows that they are both interested in the YMCA movement for sailors.
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1907-06-08
President Roosevelt informs Wayne MacVeagh of the House’s strong opinion that he not speak at the presentation of the bust of the Marquis de Lafayette.
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1905-01-28
President Roosevelt would like to meet with Secretary of Agriculture Wilson to discuss matters raised by Senators Aldrich and Wetmore, and Congressman Wadsworth.
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1904-05-04
Henry White recounts an encounter with Chief Justice Edward Douglass White to whom he conveyed a message from Theodore Roosevelt on the recent Standard Oil decision. He shares the chief justice’s thoughts on the case before confiding in Roosevelt the details of a conversation with President Taft on “the situation in Canada” and difficulty the president is having with the two senators from Rhode Island. He closes with an inquiry as to whether he can stay with the Roosevelts in Oyster Bay before departing on a trip to Europe in June.
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1911-05-24
W. D. Murphy, pen name for Harriet Anderson Stubbs Murphy, invites Theodore Roosevelt to visit her studio and see her portraits of him. Murphy lists several of her most notable portrait subjects and how satisfied they were with her work. Murphy notifies Roosevelt the New York Historical Society wants to buy this portrait of Roosevelt, and she would like to have Roosevelt’s approval before it sells.
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1911-05-09
Gist Blair discusses the financial issues of George Washington University. The university hopes to secure funds from the Peabody Board. Blair will do what Theodore Roosevelt advises.
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1911-04-23
John Revelstoke Rathom informs President Roosevelt of the political corruption in Rhode Island and the misuse of Roosevelt’s name in the campaigns for re-election. Rathom reports that Indiana Senator Beveridge was so pressured to state that he was Roosevelt’s personal spokesman that at the last minute he decided not to visit Rhode Island. Rathom would not bother Roosevelt if he did not view this as a question of honor rather than politics.
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1906-10-22
Drawings accompanied by text captions describe a number of prominent politicians: President Roosevelt, Secretary of War Elihu Root, Admiral George Dewey, Speaker of the House David Bremner Henderson, Rhode Island Senator George Peabody Wetmore, Secretary of State John Hay, Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson, and New York Senator Thomas Collier Platt.
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1902-12-14
Various prominent citizens including, President Roosevelt and multiple senators, justices, and cabinet members, state their support of endowing a department of political science in Western Reserve University in memory of the late Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna.
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1905-01-27