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APRIL . 1909 To James A. Cobb New York. Apr. 2 I, 1909 My dear Mr. Cobb: I meant to have begged your pardon for making the suggestion when we were in the President's room yesterday that I wanted to talk with him alone. The fact is that the big fellow Is getting down to brass tacks now on you fellows and he wanted to ask me some important questions. Yours very truly, tBooker T. Washington] TLc Con. 44 BOW Papers DLC. To William Howard Taft [Hotel Manhattan, New York City] April 23, ~ gag My dear Mr. President: When I was in Washington a few days ago, I meant to have told to you in effect the same thing which I told President Roosevelt in regard to Mr. Cohen of Louisiana because I think you ought to know all the facts. Some years ago before he was put into office, Mr. Cohen led rather a fast and unbecoming life, but I am in a position to state unhesitatingly that during all the time that he has been holding office and for some time before he has led a clean, upright life, and I know no man of our race at the present time whose life is more faultless than is the case of him. I make this statement all the more boldly because I have taken numerous occasions within recent years to make thorough investigation for myself, and in every case I found that he was leading a straight life. Some time when you are not under such pressure, I wish that you couIci set a time when I could see you when we could go over the whole situation so far as the colored men in office are concerned with a good deal of deliberation. I shall be going North several times within the next few months and could stop either as I go 91