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President Roosevelt tells Herman Henry Kohlsaat that William H. Taft is reading Kohlsaat’s letter and chuckling over it. Roosevelt thinks that Taft is going to be elected “with a swoop,” but that they must assume it will be a hard contest nonetheless.
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1908-06-17
President Roosevelt was greatly amused by Judge Bishop’s story, and says he will not let the Wall Street press get a hold of it.
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1908-03-03
President Roosevelt tells Emily Tuckerman that the two editorials were very amusing.
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1908-01-31
President Roosevelt tells his son, Archibald B. Roosevelt, about a funny letter he received from Fannie Peabody. He also provides an update on how Quentin Roosevelt is doing at home.
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1908-01-20
President Roosevelt found George A. Torrey’s letter amusing and a “good fooling.”
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1906-09-08
President Roosevelt tells Melville D. Landon (pen name Eli Perkins) that he was “immensely amused” by Landon’s recent letter to the Tribune.
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1904-08-13
President Roosevelt thanks George B. Hall for the account of the amusing conversation and was interested to know that Hall was a member of a Massachusetts regiment that helped feed the Rough Riders after the battle of Las Guasimas.
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1903-12-05
President Roosevelt was amused with the two articles from the Times and has not seen the editorial in the Sun.
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1903-10-15
“Three cheers for such wholly disinterested adherence!”
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1903-03-21
John Appleton Stewart tells Frank Herbert he would like to see Theodore Roosevelt today, and mentions that Raoul Dandurand “enjoyed the joke above the books.”
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1911-10-16
William Sturgis Bigelow says there are two kinds of Cabots: one kind speaks only to other Cabots, and the other kind do not speak to anyone. Sturgis states he is of the latter class. However, he will relax his principles to come express appreciation to President Roosevelt.
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1909-01-29
Secretary of State Root sends President Roosevelt a poem joking about Roosevelt’s activities, which concludes, “can’t you stop for ten minutes?”
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1908-12-07
Anna Roosevelt Cowles is glad that President Roosevelt has been able to get away from Washington, D.C., for a time to go to Sagamore Hill. Cowles congratulates Roosevelt about something in which she feels that Roosevelt was able to control the flow of events well. She also mentions a humorous comment from Senator Morgan G. Bulkeley.
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1908-06-20
Senator Lodge encloses a note and humorous picture from Frank Higginson. Higginson sent the picture because he has six or seven children.
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1907-06-06
Secretary of State Root asks A. D. if they remember the test for Serbian princes and recommends using litmus paper to judge if he is a Russian prince.
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1906-09-21
C. Grant La Farge has been working on the estimates for work he has done at the White House. Tongue in cheek, he suggests that he and his wife Florence would like to present the tablets to the White House as a gift, understanding that, in a few years, he will be given the first vacant ambassadorship.
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1906-05-15
Ambassador Reid writes to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, describing three dinners he recently attended which were hosted by the Chinese Minister, the Pilgrim’s Society, and the Royal Geographical Society, respectively. Reid includes anecdotes about British politicians like Prime Minister Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Winston Churchill, Augustine Birrell, John Morley, and George Curzon. Reid also references issues associated with the education bill, the administration of India, “trouble” in Natal, and negotiations with Russia over Seistan. Reid felt that the details he included might be of interest to Roosevelt.
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1906-04-12
Secretary of Commerce and Labor Cortelyou forwards a confidential memorandum about a humorous incident to President Roosevelt. This letter is marked “Personal.”
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1904-05-18
W. J. Lee tells Mr. Weaver that John Wilkins’ personal and humorous reminiscences of his college days at Princeton intended for the university’s commencement journal were mistakenly published in the Post.
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1904-05-16
A humorous anecdote on being a father versus a grandfather.
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1911-08-18