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President Roosevelt informs Frank Hinchman Platt that according to Cuban Occupation Governor Charles E. Magoon, there is likely not much they can currently do about the telephone issue. The election of the Cuban Congress should sort it out.
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1908-09-10
W. Sloan Simpson considers his recent trip to Cuba to be “very unsuccessful” on account of the inefficiency of the leaders of the Department of the Treasury. He talked to many Americans, Britons, Canadians, and Cubans to try to understand the opinions of the people there, should President Roosevelt be interested. Simpson will be in Washington, D.C., soon and hopes to go riding with Roosevelt.
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1907-04-17
Secretary of War Taft hopes to have the results of the Cuban election in half an hour. He would like to have a statement from President Roosevelt about the election before he leaves for Puerto Rico because he thinks it would help matters if he were able to make an announcement as he leaves.
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1907-04-10
Secretary of War Taft reports to President Roosevelt from Cuba. Charles E. Magoon is keeping everything under control and Taft plans to inspect the troops soon. Taft discusses his worries about his brother, Charles Phelps Taft, having set him up as an opponent to Senator Joseph Benson Foraker in the upcoming election.
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1907-04-09
Secretary of War Taft writes to President Roosevelt from Cuba. He assures Roosevelt that the recent report from the New York Herald was overblown and no cause for alarm. He also reports on the labor meeting he held with unhappy steam shovel engineers working on the Canal while in Panama.
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1907-04-07
Emily Tyler Carow describes her experiences in Egypt, including her concern about an “undercurrent of hostility” that seems to be present in the Egyptian Arab people. Carow tells Roosevelt about her conversations with Lord Evelyn Baring Cromer and his dinner guests, which have been about topics such as the British occupation of Egypt, the American occupation of Cuba and the insular possession of the Philippines, whether Roosevelt will run for president again, and the natural beauty of the desert.
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1907-02-01
President Roosevelt asks Governor Magoon when he can come to discuss the transition of power from the United States to Cuba with him and Secretary of State Elihu Root.
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1908-07-24
President Roosevelt sends Secretary of State Root a letter from Charles E. Magoon, the occupational governor of Cuba. Secretary of War William H. Taft has also seen it. Roosevelt’s assessment is that Magoon would be the best man to be minister of Cuba during the occupation, and that nothing else can be done until the Cubans elect a president. Magoon has made it clear that the troops should leave Cuba on the 1st of February.
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1908-04-27
President Roosevelt informs Charles E. Magoon, Occupational Governor of Cuba, that the time is nearing when the United States will need to make plans for the kind of government they should have in place when they leave the island next February. He includes excerpts of letters from German Ambassador Hermann Speck von Sternburg and Sir William Cornelius Van Horne, which offer opinions about what should be done. They suggest the United States maintaining a military presence and advisory presence on the island. Roosevelt has doubts about the feasibility of leaving a temporary military force, and asks Magoon’s views on the matter.
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1908-04-04
President Roosevelt asks Provisional Governor Magoon when the church claims related to Santiago de Cuba will be settled, as he would like to have the matter wrapped up before the end of their time on the island. If Roosevelt can not procure a saddle horse for Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt for Christmas, he will have to impound the basin and pitcher he and Magoon have discussed.
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1907-12-18
President Roosevelt believes that most educated Cubans would like the United States to continue its occupation, though this is not possible. They are entitled to one more trial, but Roosevelt does not know what form it will take.
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1907-04-15
President Roosevelt draws Secretary of War Taft’s attention to a paragraph in the Panama Daily Telegraph. He thinks the United States should “take advantage of [its] intervention to put the Cuban Government on as solid a basis of good legislation as possible.”
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1907-04-16
President Roosevelt assures John Lawrence Sullivan that he will look into the court-martial case of Sullivan’s nephew, John L. Lennon. He wants to hear what Secretary of War William H. Taft thinks about it, as Roosevelt must consider the precedent he will set if he intervenes.
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1907-04-04
President Roosevelt thinks that Secretary of War Taft should allow Provisional Governor of Cuba Charles E. Magoon to make assurances that “policy declared..by my predecessor…will be strictly adhered to,” to avoid “too much proclamation” from Taft. Roosevelt discusses further issues concerning the occupation of Cuba.
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1906-10-10
President Roosevelt introduces his cousin, John S. Elliot, to Provisional Governor of Cuba Magoon.
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1906-10-10
President Roosevelt is disappointed in the professional conduct of Minister to Cuba Edwin V. Morgan and tells Secretary of State Root that he “has been absolutely useless in the crises that has just occurred.”
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1906-10-03
President Roosevelt agrees with Secretary of War Taft and has sent Army Chief of Staff James Franklin Bell to Havana.
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1906-10-03
President Roosevelt was greatly amused by a cartoon depicting Secretary of War Taft and sends it to him along with words of support for the handling of the recent events in Cuba. Roosevelt wishes to meet with Taft in person about the nomination of Horace H. Lurton to the Supreme Court, along with Supreme Court Justice William R. Day, Secretary of State Elihu Root, and Attorney General William Henry Moody. Roosevelt mentions that Philip Battell Stewart will not run for governor in Colorado, and wonders if Taft can make it to Idaho for a campaign speech.
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1906-10-04
President Roosevelt expresses his stance on the current situation in Cuba with Senator Beveridge. Although Roosevelt believes that future military intervention in Cuba might be necessary, he would need the support from Congress and wishes only to aid the Cuban government, not “conquer the island.” Roosevelt congratulates Beveridge on his campaign.
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1906-10-05
President Roosevelt thanks former Governor of Massachusetts Long for his letter and agrees with Long that recent actions in Cuba prove to the anti-imperialists “the folly of which we should have been guilty if we had followed their advice in the Philippines.”
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1906-10-06