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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Do not quote...anything of our conversation either about [Secretary of War William Howard] Taft...for I talk with you very freely and should not be willing to have what I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..."
"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Do not quote...anything of our conversation either about [Secretary of War William Howard] Taft...for I talk with you very freely and should not be willing to have what I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..."