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Reverend Dowie will be traveling to Mexico to meet with President Diaz. Dowie asks President Roosevelt to write a letter of introduction, on his behalf, to Ambassador Clayton.
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1905-01-31
Manuel Azpiroz requests a private audience with President Roosevelt in order to give him a letter from the President of Mexico.
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1904-12-21
Assistant Secretary of State Alvey A. Adee requests President Roosevelt’s approval of New Year messages to Emperor Nicholas II of Russia and President Porfirio Díaz of Mexico. It is noted by George B. Cortelyou that President Roosevelt approves and Adee has been informed by telephone.
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1902-01
President Roosevelt informs his sister that he has written to President Diaz. Roosevelt also mentions that he is sad to hear the latest news about Frances Theodora Parsons.
1906-01-06
President Roosevelt congratulates and praises James Creelman for the article that he wrote on President Porfirio Díaz of Mexico. Roosevelt agrees with Creelman’s position that Díaz is the greatest statesman now living.
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1908-03-07
President Roosevelt writes to Ambassador Thompson to introduce Minnesota Governor John Albert Johnson. Roosevelt hopes that Thompson will introduce Johnson to Porfirio Diaz, the president of Mexico.
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1908-02-21
President Roosevelt has received Mexican President Porfirio Díaz’s letter and sent him an answer through Mexican Ambassador Enrique C. Creel. He is sorry the picture was not packed well.
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1908-01-17
W. E. Dame, a former Rough Rider, has moved to Mexico City and has business in Oaxaca. President Roosevelt asks Ambassador Thompson to introduce him to President Porfirio Díaz and Attorney General Rafael Rebollar.
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1908-01-13
President Roosevelt asks Ambassador Thompson to deliver his portrait to President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz and to thank Díaz for the portrait he had sent Roosevelt.
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1907-11-22
President Roosevelt has an average portrait of himself. He inquires of Ambassador Thompson if President Porfirio Diaz, of Mexico, expects or would like it in response to the one he sent. Before doing anything, Roosevelt wants to hear from Thompson and Secretary of State Elihu Root as he does not want to send it unless such a gesture is received as a compliment.
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1907-11-16
President Roosevelt thanks David E. Thompson, Ambassador to Mexico, for the portrait of President Porfirio Díaz and remarks on how pleased he is with Thompson’s performance.
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1907-11-09
President Roosevelt assures David E. Thompson, United States Ambassador to Mexico, that he “took exactly the right course.” Roosevelt’s message to President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz was unofficial and informal. Roosevelt does want Mexico, Brazil, Chile, and Argentina working together “to secure the peaceful and orderly development of the less fortunate tropical American countries,” but this is not ready for formal negotiation.
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1907-03-12
President Roosevelt instructs Assistant Secretary of State Bacon on how to handle recent communications between several Central American nations. Bacon should speak to Mexican President Porfirio Díaz and Guatemalan President Manuel Estrada Cabrera to present the message recently received from El Salvador, and encourage Estrada Cabrera to accept.
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1906-07-14
President Roosevelt asks Mexican Ambassador Casasús if Mexican Secretary of Finance José Yves Limantour will be traveling through the United States in the fall. If he is, President Roosevelt would like to meet him, and expresses a wish to meet anyone associated with the government of Mexican President Porfirio Díaz.
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1906-05-07
President Roosevelt asks Catalina Altamirano Casasús, wife of the Mexican Ambassador, to forward the enclosed photograph to Carmen Romero Rubio de Díaz, the wife of President Profirio Díaz.
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1906-02-03
President Roosevelt tells his sister Corrine Roosevelt Robinson that he has written to Mexican President Porfirio Díaz. He was very sad to read her account of Frances Theodora Parsons. (Parsons’s husband, James Russell Parsons, was killed in an accident in Mexico.)
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1906-01-06
President Roosevelt regrets that Ambassador Casasús will probably miss the dinner on the 11th. He would like to speak privately with him when he is better. He asks Casasús to send his regards to Mexican President Porfirio Díaz.
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1906-01-01
President Roosevelt appreciates the telegram from Mexican President Díaz and says that Mexico is a “signal example” of the progress made through peace.
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1905-09-02
President Roosevelt asks Ambassador Clayton to arrange an interview with President of Mexico Díaz for religious leader John Alexander Dowie and his wife, Jane Dowie.
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1905-02-03
President Roosevelt is sorry he missed Mexican Vice President Ramón Corral Verdugo’s telegram from October 11 about his upcoming visit to the United States. Roosevelt has directed those in St. Louis, San Francisco, and elsewhere to extend every courtesy to Corral and his party. Corral’s visit is “another proof of the good will that happily exists between our two countries.”
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1904-10-20