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President Roosevelt thanks Hawaiian Territorial Governor Carter for the “interesting and helpful letters,” which addressed both citizenship for inhabitants of the islands, and the question of dividing up land.
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1906-06-21
President Roosevelt believes the United States should pass the citizenship bill for Puerto Rico, and asks for Speaker of the House Cannon’s help in helping pass it.
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1906-04-26
President Roosevelt informs U.S. Representative Cooper that he has asked Tulio Larrinaga, Commissioner from Puerto Rico, to speak with Cooper about the bill giving citizenship to the people of Puerto Rico. Roosevelt feels that it is indefinsible to not give them citizenship as “they are our fellow-citizens in fact and they ought to be so declared by law.” Roosevelt has recently appointed Larrinaga as delegate from the United States to the Pan American conference, explains his reasoning for doing so, and hopes for speedy action on the citizenship question so that Larrinaga can attend the conference as a full citizen.
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1906-03-26
President Roosevelt tells Senator Foraker that he has appointed Tulio Larrinaga as one of the American delegates to the Pan American Congress, and urges Foraker to act on the Puerto Rican citizenship bill during this session of congress before the delegation departs.
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1906-03-26
President Roosevelt thanks Joseph Garter for the letter and gift that he sent his daughter Alice Roosevelt. He says that the political party a person belongs does not matter as long as they are good Americans.
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1906-02-05
President Roosevelt will meet John Brisben Walker to discuss “the causes which work to the disadvantage of the people” in the government, but does not want to be quoted either directly or indirectly. He adds that the “most potent” cause that disadvantages the public is the way that certain writers and journalists write about the causes.
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1906-02-05
President Roosevelt thanks F. H. McDowell for his letter, praises his “gallant” son, and notes that McDowell himself is doing “first-class citizen’s work.”
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1906-01-31
President Roosevelt has been telling people that Attorney General Moody’s opinion on the case of former Representative Edmund H. Driggs is that public officers convicted of crimes should not be “restored to citizenship” for the rest of their life. Roosevelt feels that, at the very least, a long period of time should intervene before that happens. Roosevelt jokingly notes that pardons are “nothing between friends” and asks how he can reconcile that position if he agrees with Moody’s recommendations on the enclosed six cases.
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1905-12-13
For the upcoming celebration of the 250th anniversary of the settlement of Jews in the United States, President Roosevelt praises the citizenship of American Jews, and recounts a number of their greatest contributions to the United States to Jacob H. Schiff.
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1905-11-16
Representative Richardson’s letter to William Loeb amused President Roosevelt. Roosevelt sends Richardson’s wife Lucy Porter Richardson a picture of himself and his family. He praises her for “representing the very best type of American citizenship.”
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1905-11-17
President Roosevelt thanks and congratulates Lydia Ann Mewes for what she has done for the country.
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1905-03-11
President Roosevelt has received William R. Corwine’s report on the National Martinique and West Indies Relief Committee and thanks its members for their support to the cause, financial and otherwise. It is the kind of spirit that is upheld in good citizenship.
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1904-10-15
President Roosevelt tells L. H. Wah that his son is away, but that Roosevelt liked Wah’s letter, and so chose to answer it himself. Roosevelt is glad to hear of what Wah is doing, and wishes him success in becoming a good Christian and citizen, and in helping others.
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1904-10-06
Theodore Roosevelt is still being attacked on his treatment of the Catholics in the Philippines. Roosevelt identifies himself to Eugene Philbin as half Dutch and half Irish, but he believes that the “vital question as to any man is not his national origin or his creed, but his spirit and purpose.” Roosevelt would like Philbin to write an editorial on his behalf to the Evening Post speaking out for the fair treatment that Roosevelt gives people, especially Catholics.
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1904-10-04
Theodore Roosevelt appreciates the speech that Frank J. Hergarty gave on his behalf. Roosevelt strives to represent every individual who does their duty in the best way they can.
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1904-09-27
President Roosevelt writes to Joseph Gurney Cannon, Chairman of the Notification Committee, to formally accept his nomination as the Republican presidential candidate and to approve the platform adopted by the Republican National Convention. In the letter, Roosevelt provides a comprehensive defense of his foreign and domestic policies and outlines what he believes are the major differences between the Republican and Democratic parties in the upcoming election. Roosevelt discusses, among other topics, his position on international relations, antitrust legislation, tariffs, the gold standard, pensions for Civil War veterans, the military, civil service, commerce, agriculture, taxation, and self-government in the Philippines.
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1904-09-12
President Roosevelt acknowledges the newspaper clipping and congratulates the Cooper family.
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1904-08-30
President Roosevelt regrets that he cannot attend the unveiling of the Kosciuszko monument in Chicago, Illinois. He mentions that he helped to secure monuments to Kosciuszko and Pulaski in Washington, D.C., and he believes they are historical figures worthy of great admiration and respect. Roosevelt notes the important contributions that people of different ethnicities have made to American history.
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1904-08-31
President Roosevelt thanks H. W. Miller for his letter and sends his regards to Miller’s five sons. He considers Miller to be the “right type of American citizen.”
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1904-07-23
President Roosevelt sends John F. Wilkins and the Princeton class of 1894 his regards. Democracy and good government depend on college graduates acting “decently and squarely as American citizens.”
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1904-05-05