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President Roosevelt assures Edmund J. James, president of the University of Illinois, that he will carefully consider any proposition he receives from him, but he “cannot consider making such a radical and new recommendation after my successor is elected.”
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1908-09-02
Theodore Roosevelt asks President of the University of Illinois Edmund J. James if he is available for lunch on August 24.
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1911-08-18
Theodore Roosevelt praises President James’s address on military preparedness.
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1916-04-06
President Roosevelt thanks Edmund J. James for his kind words; they mean a lot coming from a man Roosevelt respects and admires.
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1909-01-23
President Roosevelt was sad to hear of Edmund J. James’s illness.
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1906-04-11
In a personal letter, President Roosevelt tells University of Illinois President Edmund James that the only present problem with the educational commission is “the ticklish condition of affairs in China” and the Chinese tendency “to interpret as weakness anything we do in the direction of treating them well.” He will take the matter in question up with Secretary of State Elihu Root to see if they can forward James’s scheme.
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1906-03-03
President Roosevelt tells Edmund J. James, president of the University of Illinois, that while he thinks highly of General O. O. Howard, Secretary of the Interior Ethan Allen Hitchcock believes the current assistant secretary of the interior, Thomas Ryan, is one of the best men in the service.
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1905-03-02
President Roosevelt thanks University of Illinois President James for his letter and wishes he could see him in person. He hopes James has success in his new field.
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1904-11-17