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Theodore Roosevelt tells James Ford Rhodes how much he enjoyed visiting him and his wife, Ann Charlotte Card Rhodes. Roosevelt looks forward to visiting again next year when he is President of the American Historical Association.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-15
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1913-01-13
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
English
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary confirms Roosevelt’s travel plans to Boston, Massachusetts, with James Ford Rhodes.
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1911-12-08
Theodore Roosevelt looks forward to meeting James Ford Rhodes’s dinner guests. However, he already has plans for lunch with Kermit Roosevelt. Roosevelt is happy to see Rhodes at the upcoming dinner of the American Historical Association.
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1911-11-24
Theodore Roosevelt regrets that he cannot attend the American Historical Association dinner with James Ford Rhodes and William Milligan Sloane as his address at Groton School was rescheduled.
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1911-11-10
Theodore Roosevelt plans multiple dinner appointments with James Ford Rhodes. He invites Rhodes to Sagamore Hill to show him some things connected to Emperor of Germany William II.
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1911-11-04
Theodore Roosevelt informs James Ford Rhodes that he will attend the Harvard Overseers’ meeting on December 13 and asks if it is convenient to visit him then.
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1911-10-27
Theodore Roosevelt accepts James Ford Rhodes’s invitation to a luncheon.
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1912-11-26
Theodore Roosevelt informs James Ford Rhodes that he is unable to come to Boston due to the calls from the Progressive leaders there. Roosevelt will stay with William Sturgis Bigelow, but is happy to have dinner with Rhodes.
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1912-11-20
President Roosevelt thanks James Ford Rhodes for the letter, and says that during his presidency he has had “no more welcome guest” at the White House than Rhodes. Roosevelt is not sure whether he can write about his administration once he returns from his safari, but promises to talk it over with Rhodes.
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1909-01-05
President Roosevelt invites James Ford Rhodes and his wife to lunch on December 29 at 1:30. He will invite British Ambassador James Bryce, Secretary of State Elihu Root, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, and Supreme Court Justices William H. Moody and Oliver Wendell Holmes.
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1908-11-11
President Roosevelt thanks James Ford Rhodes for his letter and invites him to dine at the White House. He offers to invite James Bryce, Secretary of State Elihu Root, and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. He encloses a note written by “a very good fellow” from Maryland.
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1908-11-06
President Roosevelt thanks James Ford Rhodes for the letter, and says he values it very highly. He sends him a copy of a letter that he sent to George Otto Trevelyan.
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1908-06-24
President Roosevelt would like to meet with James Ford Rhodes this spring to talk over several things.
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1908-04-14
President Roosevelt agrees with James Ford Rhodes’ assertion that the “average Roman rich man” makes the modern equivalent looks tame in comparison. Although he does not think highly of the “American multi-millionaire”, nor his family and those who model their lives after them, comparing them to tyrants and ancient demagogues is “simple nonsense.” He hopes that he is doing his part in directing the American people along the line of political moderation.
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1907-03-29
President Roosevelt is pleased that James Ford Rhodes is able to take a break from his work and is planning to take a vacation to Europe. He hopes Rhodes and his wife will be able to visit the White House when they return. Roosevelt offers to write letters of introduction for Rhodes if there are any people in Europe he particularly would like to meet.
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1906-05-09
President Roosevelt is very pleased to receive the letter in which James Ford Rhodes spoke so highly of him.
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1905-11-22
As he does not have time to write him at length, President Roosevelt asks if James Ford Rhodes could come spend the night at the White House.
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1905-11-04
President Roosevelt is glad James Ford Rhodes liked his speech, but while he agrees with Rhodes that the Reconstruction scheme based on “universal negro suffrage” was folly, he reminds Rhodes that the “initial folly was with the southern people themselves,” bringing Africans into the country and enslaving them. Roosevelt discusses the bitterness felt by southerners as well as northerners in the wake of the war and Reconstruction.
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1905-02-20
President Roosevelt quotes a significant section from the Biloxi Daily Herald, a Democratic paper, that discusses Roosevelt’s treatment of the South in a letter to James Ford Rhodes. Although Southerners are more likely to look at Roosevelt’s harmful deeds in the South than the good ones, the clipping suggests Roosevelt has been unfairly criticized by those who know little about him and briefly discusses how the president has benefited Mississippi.
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1904-12-17