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The 15th will work for President Roosevelt as he needs to mail his message a week before he presents it to Congress. Roosevelt appreciates the work of Eugene Philbin and his associates and invites them to a meal at the White House.
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1903-11-04
President Roosevelt invites Jacob Riis to the White House in order to discuss the Anthracite Coal Strike, which he thinks could be used to great advantage in one of Riis’s articles. Roosevelt is ashamed of the New York election results.
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1903-11-04
President Roosevelt is pleased with the George Washington letters and will frame them to be hung in the White House.
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1903-11-04
President Roosevelt thanks George Otto Trevelyan for the two volumes of the second part of the American Revolution. Roosevelt wishes he could get Trevelyan over to stay in the White House.
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1903-11-06
President Roosevelt invites George Brumder, or his son, to the White House to discuss several matters.
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1903-11-11
Robert Barnwell Roosevelt should write to Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw about the claims he writes about. President Roosevelt invites him to stay a night at the White House.
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1903-11-12
President Roosevelt suggests that the people being presented be met by members of the Cabinet and the presentation occur after dinner since there is so many of them. Roosevelt also invites Nicholas M. Butler to stay at the White House.
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1903-10-08
President Roosevelt is pleased with the Abraham Lincoln picture and regards it as a real addition to the White House. Roosevelt believes the picture represents Lincoln around the time of the debate between Lincoln and Stephen Douglas.
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1903-10-05
President Roosevelt would like advance notice if John McIlhenny will be coming north during the winter so that a stay at the White House can be arranged.
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1903-10-03
President Roosevelt asks Acting Secretary of War Oliver to issue orders that Granville Fortescue should be detailed to the White House this winter, now that John Procter has gone to the Philippines.
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1903-08-17
President Roosevelt encloses a letter from Senator Lodge. In a postscript, Roosevelt complains about British dishonesty in the boundary negotiations and Colonel Symons is doing a poor job of caring for the White House grounds.
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1903-08-08
The White House hosts winter musicales, but President Roosevelt does not approve of the word and would prefer to use “musicals.” However, he cannot find the word “musicals” in the dictionary. Roosevelt would like to use the correct word and asks Brander Matthews what spelling should be used.
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1903-07-30
Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt would like Mr. Leonard, the one-armed Marine captain, to be detailed to the White House, and President Roosevelt wants William S. Cowles to remain his naval aide even after Cowles goes to sea. Secretary of the Navy Moody should do what he believes is right and proper regarding the command of the Atlantic squadron. Roosevelt requests that the bowsprit of the USS Sylph be repaired.
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1903-07-16
President Roosevelt fondly recalls the Fourth of July he spent with the Thorndikes. Next year, he would like Mrs. Paul Thorndike to dine in the new state dining room.
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1903-07-04
President Roosevelt would like the Stows and Whelans to visit the White House during a “big function” next winter.
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1903-07-02
President Roosevelt enjoyed Eliot Gregory’s recent articles and invites him to the White House.
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1903-06-17
President Roosevelt is unable to accept Sidney M. Hedges’ invitation to Boston, but he would be greatly pleased to receive Hedges and his guests at the White House should they come to Washington.
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1903-06-04
President Roosevelt is unable to accept the invitation of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts but invites them to visit Washington as he would be greatly pleased to receive both the Company and its British visitors at the White House.
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1903-06-04
President Roosevelt wants the chimney fixed “without fail.”
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1903-06-08
President Roosevelt thanks Perkins for the bear skin and believes it will be a great ornament in the White House.
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1903-05-23