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Judge Penfield sends Secretary of State Hay a draft response that can serve as a model for similar cases involving Santo Domingo. In a handwritten response, Hay says the draft is all right as long as President Roosevelt approves.
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1905-03-16
Transcription discussing creating a universal arbitration treaty between the United States and Great Britain. A treaty between the United States and the Dominican Republic is mentioned. This may be the words of Theodore Roosevelt. There are a number of words missing and a note on page 2 says the subject is continued for 6 more pages of shorthand.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1911
President Roosevelt agrees with Secretary of War Taft and has removed the reference to receivership from his speech. The “Philippine question” is the only point on which he remains uneasy. He details his thoughts and concerns about the United States’ continued relationship with the islands, including their strategic importance in the event of a conflict with Japan and the issue of granting autonomy.
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1907-08-21
The writer laments the United States Senate’s failure to ratify the San Domingo treaty. Carlos Felipe Morales supports the treaty.
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1904-03-24
President Roosevelt carrying a big stick stands beside a man labeled “Senate” casting a vote into the “Dominican Ballot.” To their left stands a woman blindfolded, holding scales in her right hand and an enormous sword “justice” in her left.
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1907-02-26
President Roosevelt and South Carolina Senator Benjamin R. Tillman go fishing in a “senatorial pool.” At the bottom of the pool is “the railroad rate bill” turtle, a “Philippine tariff bill” alligator, a “statehood bill” frog, and a “Santo Domingo” fish. On the ledge are two crayfish by a “bait amendments” can.
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1906-01-25
President Roosevelt leaves the White House with a gun and a “Senatorial game bag.” He encounters a number of animal traps: “railway rate trap,” “Panama trap,” “federal ins. trap,” “Santo Domingo trap,” “Venezuela trap,” “German tariff trap,” “state interference trap,” and “campaign expenses trap.”
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1906-01-03
President Roosevelt wears several weapons and walks toward a number of wild animals. He leaves behind the “big stick” and several scrolls: “protocol,” “Santo Domingo treaty,” “report beef trust,” “Panama,” and “Venezu[ela] dispute.”
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1905-04-02
President Roosevelt stands on a “U.S.” battleship and points a “Monroe Doctrine” gun at “Europe,” who reaches for a man sitting on the “Republic of Santo Domingo.” Caption: “This in reality entails no new obligations upon us, for the Monroe Doctrine means precisely such a guarantee on our part.”—President Roosevelt.
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1905-03-18
A “U.S. Senate” hand holds back President Roosevelt, who reaches for a man on “Santo Domingo.”
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1905-02-13
On the occasion of his inauguration, the New York Times re-examines President Roosevelt’s record of the past three years, and asks, can the nation expect an even bolder Roosevelt in the years to come? Roosevelt’s policies and actions of the past three years are subjected to a critical analysis.
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1905-03-04
President Roosevelt sent Secretary of State Hay ex-senator Henry Gassaway Davis’s puzzling comments on Williams C. Fox. He feels Fox should be promoted if he is “of sufficiently moral character.” If Hay sees Elihu Root in the evening, Roosevelt asks them to review the Costa Rica proposition.
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1905-01-14
President Roosevelt is concerned that Secretary of State Hay is ill but reports the San Domingo business is going well. At some point, he wants to review the situation surrounding the Chinese railroad project with Hay.
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1905-01-26
President Roosevelt discusses his thoughts about the situation in Cuba with Senator Foraker.
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1906-09-28
President Roosevelt found Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte’s letter recounting his experience in Santo Domingo “a ray of sunshine.” He agrees the Navy should be told to act on Secretary of War William H. Taft’s orders. Roosevelt advises Bonaparte enjoys his holiday knowing Taft is now responsible for Cuba.
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1906-09-19
President Roosevelt repeats his congratulations to Acting Secretary of State Bacon for the way he has handled the Central American business. He asks Bacon to also pass along his congratulations to Federico Velásquez y Hernández, Secretary of State for Treasury and Commerce of the Dominican Republic.
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1906-07-21
President Roosevelt tells his sister Corinne Roosevelt Robinson that he wrote her son Stewart and sent him all the information he could about the “Santo Domingo business.”
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1906-03-15
President Roosevelt encloses his Chautauqua speech and marked copies of his messages regarding Santo Domingo. He wishes his nephew Stewart Douglas Robinson good luck in the academic debate.
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1906-03-15
President Roosevelt appreciated Sereno Stansbury Pratt’s recent Wall Street Journal article. Pratt responded to a letter from George Brinton McClellan Harvey which suggested that following tension between Roosevelt and Republican leaders in the Senate, Roosevelt’s popularity would wane by the end of his second term. Roosevelt assures Pratt that he is not concerned with his personal popularity, but rather with doing what is good for the country.
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1906-03-03
President Roosevelt thanks Maurice Francis Egan for sending him the article by Havelock Ellis. Roosevelt has been “horribly disappointed” by Senator John M. Gearin’s conduct regarding the Santo Domingo treaty. Gearin has sunk “to the conventional standard of factional politics.”
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1906-03-05