His 1901 White House dinner with Booker T. Washington was played up on his 1904 presidential campaign
... beneficient work and had been holding him up as an example 
for his race... [DOC] [TLE] Theodore Roosevelt and the South | VQR Online [PAR] He had discovered, soon after his assignment to the White House, that the 
President ... colossal blunder of inviting Dr. Booker T. Washington to dine at the 
White House, .... at work in 1901 to win the Republican nomination for President 
in 1904.