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Theodore Roosevelt found journalist John Callan O’Laughlin’s account of the situation to be illuminating. Roosevelt would like O’Laughlin to stop by for lunch or dinner sometime.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-03-29
Theodore Roosevelt sends the article from the Spectator and asks that it be printed in the Middle West and in the North American.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-02-23
Theodore Roosevelt assures John Callan O’Laughlin that he never wrote that he would accept anybody but William H. Taft, but he did write to Senator Henry Cabot Lodge that they must not expect them to come back to Taft. Lodge understands that the letter was for him personally and not to be quoted. Roosevelt does not believe it is time for him to speak in public in any shape or way.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-02-17
Theodore Roosevelt is not able to take the presidency of any league right now. Roosevelt also cannot commit to a trip to San Francisco, although he will likely visit for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-02-04
President Roosevelt has sent John Callan O’Laughlin’s letters to Secretary of State Elihu Root. They are particularly valuable in what they say regarding Japan and Hawaii. He notes that it is impossible for him to get Congress to do what he wants. Roosevelt would like Congress to provide for the building of four new battleships and allow the naturalization of the Japanese.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-11-13
President Roosevelt thanks John Callan O’Laughlin for the letter, and is pleased about what he says. Roosevelt thinks things are better in Massachusetts than O’Laughlin believes.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-02-18
President Roosevelt has a lot to tell John Callan O’Laughlin about his efforts to negotiate peace between Russia and Japan. The Russians were not aware that Roosevelt was writing “just as vigorously” to Japan as he was to them. Roosevelt believes that it was in the interest of both countries to make peace.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-08-31
President Roosevelt agrees with John Callan O’Laughlin that Russian Admiral Zinoviĭ Petrovich Rozhestvenskiĭ deserves praise for his naval feats. Roosevelt believes that at present nothing can be done to bring about peace.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-04-14
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-03-27
McClenahan, Robert S. (Robert Stewart), 1871-1949
Theodore Roosevelt will read the book that John Callan O’Laughlin sent with the utmost interest. Roosevelt cannot believe that the U.S. failed to prepare for the “German and Mexican situation.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1916-05-07