ROOSEVELT, THEODORE, President. Typed letter signed ("Theodore Roosevelt") as President, to Benjamin I. Wheeler, Washington, D.C., 20 June 1905. 1 page, 4to, White House stationery, integral blank . "THIS RAILROAD MATTER:" TR stresses the confidential nature of their correspondence and discusses his trust-busting activities: "...Do not quote...anything of our conversation either about [Secretary of War William Howard] Taft...for I talk with you very freely and should not be willing to have what I say repeated to a third person unless I was sure that it was repeated exactly in the same form; and this neither you nor I could be sure of...I am awfully afraid there is not much to talk over in this railroad matter at present. Our difference is a simple proposition, and all I can say is that I think they are all wrong in opposing our proposition, while they think we are all wrong in pressing it..."
ROOSEVELT, THEODORE, President. Typed letter signed ("Theodore Roosevelt") as President, to Benjamin I. Wheeler, Washington, D.C., 20 June 1905. 1 page, 4to, White House stationery, integral blank . "THIS RAILROAD MATTER:" TR stresses the confidential nature of their correspondence and discusses his trust-busting activities: "...Do not quote...anything of our conversation either about [Secretary of War William Howard] Taft...for I talk with you very freely and should not be willing to have what I say repeated to a third person unless I was sure that it was repeated exactly in the same form; and this neither you nor I could be sure of...I am awfully afraid there is not much to talk over in this railroad matter at present. Our difference is a simple proposition, and all I can say is that I think they are all wrong in opposing our proposition, while they think we are all wrong in pressing it..."
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