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President Roosevelt sends a letter of personal thanks to Ambassador Jusserand in receipt of a pamphlet with an inscription.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-07-09
Theodore Roosevelt was pleased to receive Ambassador Jusserand’s pamphlet. Roosevelt wishes that he was not in the presidential election fight but is doing so on the principle that he “would rather take a thrashing than be quiet under a kicking.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-07-03
Theodore Roosevelt is delighted with what Ambassador Jusserand said about Shakespeare. He asks if Jusserand saw his editorial in which he quotes Emile Boutrox and sends a copy.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-05
Theodore Roosevelt is glad to see the editorial, and he hopes that Ambassador Jusserand has noticed the straightforward articles he has recently published in the Metropolitan.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-10-18
Theodore Roosevelt believes every word Ambassador Jusserand has written about France. Roosevelt believes that if the other Allies showed the same spirit and efficiency as France, the war would be over in a month.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-07-08
Theodore Roosevelt reminds French Ambassador Jusserand about a meeting they had with former German Ambassador Hermann Speck von Sternburg. Roosevelt says he wrote two copies of terms for France and Germany at the Algeciras Conference, and gave a copy to each of them. Roosevelt would like Jusserand to send Roosevelt a copy of what he wrote. He wishes Jusserand and his wife, Elise Richards Jusserand, would visit them, and says it was nice having George Bakhmeteff and his wife, Mary Beale Bakhemeff, over for lunch.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-06-21
Theodore Roosevelt asks Ambassador Jusserand to pass on his thanks to the French government and the individual governors of Martinique and Guadalupe.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1916-04-03
Theodore Roosevelt comments on a recent article he wrote and provides his opinion on instances where a country, particularly the United States and France, force military service on individuals that are only nominally citizens, such as a child of French parents who happened to be born in the United States.
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1915-06-01
Theodore Roosevelt is puzzled by Albert J. Beveridge’s actions. He believes that German propaganda is not having an effect on the public. He is also irritated at Beveridge’s apparent endorsement that there was nothing wrong with the German Military toast, “To the Day,” from the poem Hymn of Hate.
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1915-04-10
Theodore Roosevelt writes to French Ambassador Jean Jules Jusserand to thank him for sending an essay written by Louis Renault. Roosevelt briefly discusses its content of war, peace, and righteousness.
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1915-04-02
Gerald Morgan wrote to Theodore Roosevelt that the anti-American sentiment in Germany had become too much for him, and he would like to become a correspondent in France. Roosevelt recommends Morgan to French Ambassador Jusserand.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-03-29
Theodore Roosevelt is much obliged to French Ambassador Jusserand for his two letters, the first one of which he has sent to John Reed. Roosevelt is familiar with Joseph Bédier’s “striking” pamphlet, and he is glad that Jusserand liked his recent article in Metropolitan. Roosevelt is not pleased about Senator Beveridge’s letters from Germany. As to what Jusserand said about Uncle Sam having no friends, Roosevelt does not believe that Uncle Sam is entitled to have friends “so long as his government representatives carry neutrality to the point of being neutral between right and wrong.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-03-29
Theodore Roosevelt has met with John Reed and believes that Reed is remorseful for firing a rifle on the front lines. Reed simply shot into the night and it is practically impossible that anyone was hit. Ethically, Roosevelt believes that Reed’s actions are pardonable. Practically, Reed cannot now be given permission to visit the French front lines. Roosevelt regrets that nothing else can be done as the writing and drawings of Reed and Boardman Robinson would have been valuable. He was touched by Reed’s description of the French suffering under German rule. At Reed’s request, Roosevelt asks that the full case be placed before the French government for their consideration. He also asks if there would be any French objections against Reed being a war correspondent in Russia.
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1915-03-15
Theodore Roosevelt explains to French Ambassador Jusserand why he communicated differently with Mr. Reed than he did with Mr. Clark. Roosevelt believes Reed will “act with entire justice and impartiality” and that he should make a personal visit to the French lines.
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1915-03-12
Theodore Roosevelt writes an endorsement of James Drain to Jean Jules Jusserand. Drain is a man of “great efficiency and high character.” He specializes in rifle-shooting and ordinance supplies, and Roosevelt finds him “honest and trustworthy.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-02-23
Theodore Roosevelt greatly wishes he could have been president during the Mexican Revolution and the First World War. Roosevelt also wishes that the documents sent to him by Jean Jules Jusserand could be widely circulated. Roosevelt further states that he hopes the English and French governments will treat the Wilson administration the same way Abraham Lincoln’s administration treated the English and French governments during the American Civil War, when the official classes were hostile to the United States.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-02-06
Theodore Roosevelt is working to coordinate a visit with Jean Jules Jusserand, because Roosevelt goes to Boston when Jusserand will be in the area. Roosevelt has also written about contraband to Cecil Spring Rice.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-01-05
President Roosevelt informs Ambassador Jusserand that a Texan professor is collecting “frontier ballads in the cow-country of Texas.” Roosevelt compares the ballads’ treatment of the outlaw Jesse James to that of Robin Hood, and the treatment of women similar to medieval ballads.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-02-25
President Roosevelt agrees with French Ambassador J. J. Jusserand’s interpretation of the poem “Piers Plowman.” Roosevelt dismisses the poem’s critics, noting that it is simply human nature for inconsistencies to appear when an author enlarges a work over time. Roosevelt also praises Jusserand’s speech.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-02-17
President Roosevelt sends Ambassador Jusserand a copy of his Sorbonne lecture, and says that he will also keep copies of it himself. He would like to see Jusserand and his wife again sometime, but says that he fears that “the tennis court is laid up for the season.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-30