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William Allen White is protesting the appointment of Wiggam as postmaster at Emporia, Kansas. President Roosevelt is leaning towards stopping Wiggam’s appointment and requests that Henry C. Payne hold the matter up until August 28.
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1902-06-16
President Roosevelt would like to discuss the complaints of William Allen White against the appointment of Wiggam as postmaster of Emporia, Kansas.
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1902-05-03
President Roosevelt is happy to hear from Charles S. Gleed. He explains his position regarding the appointment in Kansas.
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1901-12-17
President Roosevelt thanks Charles S. Gleed for the letter, but thinks the judgment on William Allen White is too harsh. Cyrus Leland has significant support from White, Eugene F. Ware, and Marcus A. Low. Roosevelt plans to ask Nicholas Murray Butler about the chancellorship.
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1901-12-07
President Roosevelt is disappointed with “both sides” in St. Louis, Missouri, believing they are after offices instead of success. Several people have written endorsements of different candidates for the position. Overall, Roosevelt prefers Mr. Harris and asks William Rockhill Nelson for his opinion. Roosevelt would like to have someone in the Missouri office whom he knows.
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1901-11-30
Gifford Pinchot was obliged to tell William Allen White that he had a previous engagement on Abraham Lincoln’s birthday.
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1913-01-20
Senator Bristow reviews his plans with Theodore Roosevelt for their meeting in the near future to discuss Kansas politics.
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1912-11-18
Senator Bristow would be appreciative if Theodore Roosevelt could speak at the Lincoln Park Chautauqua in Cawker City, Kansas. The distances involved might make the trip inconvenient and Bristow defers judgment on the desirability of the trip to William Allen White.
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1912-07-16
A St. Louis paper is running a story supposedly by William Allen White that contains a statement from Theodore Roosevelt alleging disloyalty by Governor Hadley. Hadley has been asked to comment on the article but has declined as he believes it to be fake. Hadley asks if Roosevelt has made such a statement.
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1912-06-24
Ida M. Tarbell would be pleased to meet with Theodore Roosevelt and offers several scheduling suggestions.
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1912-02-17
Frank P. MacLennan appreciates Theodore Roosevelt’s letters and plans to give them to his daughter. Some of Roosevelt’s friends in Kansas are mistaken about his position regarding the presidential election, especially Governor Walter Roscoe Stubbs. He suggests Roosevelt write Stubbs and clearly state his position on being nominated. He discusses his farm, including the crops, haying, and his homing pigeons. MacLennan will be in New York in December for business meetings and wants to take up Roosevelt’s invitation. He comments on being vice president of publishing associations. Recently, he started publishing a full sheet of comics in black, red, and blue, in his newspaper and believes he is the first to do so. In a postscript, MacLennan apologizes for writing such a long letter.
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1911-11-05
Robert M. Chilcott wonders if Theodore Roosevelt has read Allen White’s article “A Good Man Gone.”
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1911-05-23
Supreme Court Justice Moody has read the letter and article from William Allen White that President Roosevelt forwarded to him, and offers his thoughts on the matter. Moody writes on the power of the courts to declare laws unconstitutional. This power has to be exercised with caution as, contrary to prior doctrine, the courts are not infallible. While there are checks on the power of the legislative and executive branches, if the Supreme Court exceeds its authority there is little recourse to correct the errors. Moody discusses recent examples where the Supreme Court made explicit that its duty is not to comment on the justice or wisdom of pieces of legislation, but to enforce the law as it is written and determine how laws interact with the Constitution and other laws.
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1908-12-03
Douglas Robinson returns a letter from William Allen White to President Roosevelt. He has made a copy and will show it to Corinne Roosevelt Robinson. He and his family enjoyed having Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt visit on Monday.
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1908-07-15
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson writes to her brother President Roosevelt to tell him about her experience at the Republican National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. She was struck by the spontaneous outpouring of support for Roosevelt during the convention. Robinson was glad that former Secretary of War William H. Taft, who Roosevelt chose as his successor, was chosen by the convention; she sees it as an endorsement of Roosevelt. She sends Roosevelt an article written by William Allen White, who she sat near during the convention.
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1908-06-24
Secretary of War Taft explains why he partially disagrees with President Roosevelt regarding the tariff. Taft also requests the privilege to differ from Roosevelt regarding the Interstate Commerce Commission and “the issue of bonds and stocks of interstate railways.” Taft hopes to return from his trip to Berlin via the Siberian Railway and wants Roosevelt’s advice before making arrangements.
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1907-08-06
George W. Perkins encloses a letter from William Allen White.
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1912-12-30
S. S. McClure writes to President Roosevelt to say he has asked William Allen White to write two articles about Roosevelt.
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1905-09-22
The unknown author describes a letter circulating in St. Louis purporting to be from Albert Shaw, who is claiming to represent the views of President Roosevelt. The letter claims that Roosevelt is not supporting Folk in his gubernatorial campaign, and that Cyrus Packard “Walbridge is a better man than Folk.” Roosevelt has denied the authenticity of the letter. The author believes the letter to be genuine and plans to editorialize on it in Collier’s Weekly.
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1904-10-24
Robert J. Collier does not wish to do President Roosevelt an injustice, and therefore asks him a number of direct questions regarding a reported statement that Roosevelt made about his preference for Cyrus Packard Walbridge over Joseph Wingate Folk in the race for the Missouri governorship.
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1904-10-19