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President Roosevelt provides Secretary of State Root information regarding a pamphlet that Bellamy Storer sent to the members of the cabinet. Storer did not give a full account of the events that led up to his dismissal from his ambassadorial post. Roosevelt seeks to address this by including the text of letters between himself and the Storers.
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1906-12-02
Secretary of State Root advises President Roosevelt that he should not respond to former Ambassador Bellamy Storer’s attacks in the press.
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1906-12-09
Secretary of State Root sends President Roosevelt a dispatch about the Colorado River break. The situation is serious.
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1906-12-14
Secretary of State Root writes President Roosevelt that he, Roosevelt, William Jennings Bryan, and William Randolph Hearst are all the same.
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1906-11-28
Secretary of State Elihu Root has read the communications from Ambassadors Whitelaw Reid and George von Lengerke Meyer and returns them with thanks.
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1906-11-30
Secretary of War Root sends President Roosevelt an extract from the recent encyclical of Archbishop Mariano Soler of Montevideo.
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1906-11-30
Secretary of State Root returns the original report made by Secretary of Commerce and Labor Victor Howard Metcalf on the exclusion of Japanese children from public schools in San Francisco.
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1906-11-13
Secretary of State Elihu Root asks that Panamanian President Manuel Amador Guerrero be told that acting on the boundary treaty with Costa Rica is necessary before American rights can be settled. Telegram in cipher with translation.
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1906-11-15
Secretary of State Root thanks William Loeb for the Burgess letters and speech. Root is returning the letters and regrets the poor reception of Burgess’ speech.
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1906-11-17
An envelope addressed to the President, inscribed with “P. P. P” and the words “Per Pithecaid [sic] Politeness.”
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1906-11-30
Secretary of State Root sends President Roosevelt a coded message in which he agrees to give a speech. He asks, however, that he have at least ten days to get familiar with the situation and into the spirit of the campaign, as his mind as well as his body have been in South America.
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1906-09
Secretary of State Root sends President Roosevelt the details of his return to the United States in a cipher code. He expects to be at the Potomac River on September 30, and asks that either the Dolphin or the Sylph meet the USS Columbia at Piney Point that morning.
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1906-09
Secretary of State Root sends President Roosevelt an excerpt from President Porfirio Diaz’s speech given to the Mexican Congress about bringing peace to Central America.
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1906-10-20
Secretary of State Root has received copies of the correspondence regarding American intervention in Cuba.
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1906-10-11
Secretary of State Root spent two days touring the work on the Panama Canal. Root saw the work that had been done for the residence of officers and workmen, as well as for repair and construction shops. Root was particularly impressed by the amount of excavation being done near the Culebra Cut. Root concludes by suggesting that the biggest danger facing the Canal at present is the possibility of losing good and able men to profitable employment elsewhere.
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1906-10-12
Secretary of State Root requests that President Roosevelt return the enclosed items after reading them.
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1906-10-18
Secretary of State Root communicates his travel plans to Second Assistant Secretary of State Adee at the White House, saying he will sail from Colon, Panama, through Cartagena, Colombia, and eventually up the Potomac River to Piney Point, Maryland. He says President Roosevelt telegraphed him, saying that he will have the ship Dolphin or Sylph ready to transport Root to the capitol the morning of September 30.
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1906-09-21
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
“Absent treatment & silence seems to be indicated in this case. He seems to be a bit of a Frankovitch.” A handwritten note at the top says, “concerning so called Prince Stephan of Serbia,” likely referring to Stephen the Blind.
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1906-09-21
Secretary of State Root is leaving Cartagena, Colombia, on September 24. He asks President Roosevelt to have ships Dolphin or Sylph meet him at Piney Point, Maryland. Regarding the speech, Root wants more time to familiarize himself with the material and course of campaign.
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1906-09-21