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Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary sends Roosevelt’s regrets to Patrick Murphy, as he cannot help him. Roosevelt has made it his policy since leaving the White House not to advocate on anyone’s behalf for promotions or positions. To make an exception in one case would necessitate doing so in every case, and it is not possible for Roosevelt to do so.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-01
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary informs Fred Patee that Roosevelt cannot do what Patee requests. Roosevelt has not involved himself in official affairs since leaving the White House and his involvement in the present matter could have no result anyway. Roosevelt regrets being unable to help.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-22
Theodore Roosevelt is sure that Maynard N. Clement’s years of experience in the Excise Department would be beneficial were he appointed to serve as one of the delegates to the International Congress on Alcoholism at the Hague. However, Roosevelt has made it his policy since leaving the White House not to interfere with official appointments and he would not feel comfortable writing to Secretary of State Knox or Senator Root to try to influence their choice of delegates.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-24
Theodore Roosevelt was glad to hear from Colonel Crook and looks forward to reading the article he sent. Roosevelt hopes that Crook will come to visit him if he is ever in New York, as he and his wife often think about Crook and his fellow employees at the White House.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-21
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary informs Edward M. Barron that since leaving the White House Roosevelt has not spoken on behalf of a single person regarding an official position and cannot do so now.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-23
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary informs James J. Conway that Roosevelt has not spoken on behalf of a single person regarding an official position since leaving the White House and cannot do so now.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-23
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary informs Benjamin H. Grossman that Roosevelt has not spoken on behalf of a single person regarding an official position since he left the White House. Roosevelt is sorry that he cannot help Grossman.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-23
Frank Harper writes to Robert V. King to inform him that Theodore Roosevelt has not spoken on behalf of a single person regarding official appointment since he left the White House.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-23
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary informs Schuyler A. McGinnis that Roosevelt has not spoken on behalf of a single person regarding an official position since he left the White House.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-23
Former President Roosevelt remembers W. S. Hinman well from when Roosevelt was a Civil Service Commissioner and when he was in the White House. Roosevelt regards him as an admirable man and wishes him all the best.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-12-30
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Reverend S. V. Leech for his letter and shares Leech’s opinion about the present occupant of the White House.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-02-06
Theodore Roosevelt regrets that he is unable to give Ernest T. Winchester the letter he requests. Roosevelt cannot write personal letters for people he does not know personally.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914-12-12
President Roosevelt regrets missing John Fox’s visit to the White House, congratulates the author on his book Lonesome Pine, and hopes to see Fox upon his return from Africa.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-03-01
President Roosevelt appreciates all that Edmond J. Butler has done for the success of the White House Conference on the Care of Dependent Children.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-30
President Roosevelt was touched by Lyman Metcalfe Bass’s note. He invites Bass to a lunch he plans to host at the White House for some of the younger men in his administration.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-02-02
President Roosevelt tells New York District Attorney Henry L. Stimson that he cannot simply overrule Washington District Attorney Daniel W. Baker, with whom Stimson disagrees, without hearing both sides. Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte has notified Roosevelt that Baker will not be responsible to obtain an indictment if Stimson’s suggestion is carried out. Roosevelt invites Stimson to meet with Bonaparte and Baker at the White House to try and resolve the issue.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-28
President Roosevelt would like the stone lion heads under the mantelpiece in the State Dining Room substituted with stone bison heads, as they are “a much more characteristic and American decoration.” This change will need to be done quickly, and he asks William M. Kendall to consult with Cass Gilbert, as he recently spoke with him and Samuel B. P. Trowbridge about it.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-18
President Roosevelt praises the restoration of the White House done by Charles Follen McKim during Roosevelt’s presidency, and asks Cass Gilbert and the American Institute of Architects if they would take “the duty of preserving a perpetual ‘eye of guardianship’ over the White House to see that it is kept unchanged and unmarred.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-19
President Roosevelt tells Abby Gunn Baker that he feels that Lyon Gardiner Tyler should write to the White House to offer the portrait, and that it wouldn’t be proper for them to write to him asking for a gift. Roosevelt approves of the plan to hang the portrait, but the initiative should come from Tyler. Roosevelt refutes what Baker mentioned in her letter of a plan between Robert Underwood Johnson and Glenn Brown to add another story on the East Terrace of the White House in order to house a portrait gallery there. Roosevelt thinks doing this would be a great mistake architecturally, and says that while the White House can hold portraits of presidents and first ladies, others belong in the National Portrait Gallery.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-05
President Roosevelt accepts Frank Garle’s offer, and will put the model of the White House in the White House.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-11-24