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Theodore Roosevelt is glad Henry White enjoyed the article and was amused by the one White sent. He comments on President William H. Taft’s lack of leadership.
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1911-11-22
Theodore Roosevelt is “pleased” with what Henry White told Chief Justice White. Roosevelt is interested in White’s views on reciprocity. He is looking forward to hosting Henry White at Oyster Bay.
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1911-05-31
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Henry White for writing and invites him to stay over when he is in New York.
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1911-04-19
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Henry White for sharing with him a letter by an anonymous Russian that indicates the United States’s weakened international standing due, Roosevelt thinks, to President Woodrow Wilson’s policies.
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1915-06-24
Theodore Roosevelt would like Henry White to review his response to White’s daughter, Countess Margaret Muriel Seherr-Thoss, who Roosevelt suspects was directed by German officials to include papers justifying their invasion of Belgium in a letter to Edith Roosevelt. Roosevelt hopes that White has seen his book, America and the World War.
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1915-01-22
Theodore Roosevelt was impressed with Count Chinda Sutemi’s letter, and hopes that if Henry White needs any help from Roosevelt, he will let him know. Roosevelt regrets not seeing White while the latter was in New York, but hopes the two can catch up soon. Roosevelt is worried about the report that Pancho Villa hopes that the Japanese will “colonize lower California.”
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1914-12-18
Theodore Roosevelt has heard from California Governor Hiram Johnson that Johnson does not anticipate any difficulties about the Japanese situation or further legislation on the Alien Land subject, possibly referring to the California Alien Land Law of 1913, during the coming session of the legislature.
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1914-12-08
Theodore Roosevelt will write to Governor Johnson again regarding proposed legislation that has an interest for the Japanese. Roosevelt criticizes President Wilson and his administration’s management of international affairs.
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1914-11-30
Theodore Roosevelt asks Henry White to give Brazilian Ambassador Domicio da Gama an enclosure.
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1912-11-27
President Roosevelt requests asks Ambassador White to provide context to the foreign office regarding William Howe Tolman’s request. Roosevelt believes that his newfound association with The Outlook is part of the reason that Tolman wants William Bailey Howland to be conferred the Legion of Honor. However, Roosevelt believes this request is wholly inappropriate and objects to the conferment on the grounds that it will hinder his ability to publish anything about France.
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1909-02-19
President Roosevelt was delighted with Ambassador White’s letter, and is glad that he visited the Great White Fleet.
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1909-02-11
President Roosevelt thanks Henry White for the clipping of the article by Farraro and agrees that he would like to speak in the Sorbonne itself.
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1909-01-12
President Roosevelt thanks Ambassador White for the telegram. The election is a “great victory” and a “mighty good thing” for the country.
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1908-11-04
President Roosevelt sends the enclosed letter to Ambassador White, and instructs him to take it to London and show it to Arthur Hamilton Lee. After Lee has finished reading it, White is to ensure that it is destroyed. Roosevelt has been invited by J. J. Jusserand to give a lecture at the Sorbonne after his trip to Africa. He will also give the Romanes lecture at Oxford.
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1908-10-17
President Roosevelt thinks Ambassador White’s view as to what he should do in connection with the presidential campaign is proper. Roosevelt tells White that Henry Cabot Lodge’s handling of the convention was very good. He also believes that the presidential campaign will be difficult, as many plutocrats think there is not much difference between the policies of Roosevelt and Taft on the one hand, and William Jennings Bryan on the other.
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1908-06-30
President Roosevelt writes a letter to Ambassador Reid introducing John C. Shaffer, editor of the Chicago Evening Post, and asks that Reid show him all proper courtesy.
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1908-05-24
President Roosevelt found Ambassador White’s letter interesting. He wishes he could see George Otto Trevelyan, and says that he admires Prime Minister H. H. Asquith more than late Prime Minister Henry Campbell-Bannerman. Roosevelt has asked Congress for four battleships, because he knew he would not be able to get two unless he pushed for four. He believes White’s reading of the Kaiser-Tower-Hill case was accurate.
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1908-04-27
President Roosevelt thanks Ambassador White for the article and photographs. He laments that the United States does not provide adequate quarters for its ambassadors abroad. Roosevelt believes that this was the chief cause of the “silly and unpleasant Berlin incident.” Roosevelt agrees with White on the effect of the fleet abroad. He notes that it is not possible to stop at any English or French port without offending Germany.
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1908-04-01
President Roosevelt writes to Ambassador White to introduce Judge Robert Grant.
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1908-02-06
Ambassador White’s assessment, that unlike big financiers in Europe, American financiers are largely speculators, is correct. President Roosevelt believes this is the main problem his administration is facing, and that the proposed legislation will not solve the underlying problem. He also thanks Margaret Stuyvesant Rutherford White for remembering him at Christmas and sends his love.
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1908-01-13