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Secretary of War Taft forwards President Roosevelt a confidential letter dealing with the Dominican Republic and the depositing of funds into the New York City Bank. He suggests showing the letter to Acting Secretary of State Robert Bacon and then returning it to the files in the War Department.
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1906-07-23
The trend of the past twenty-five years can be summed up as “America to the Americans,” and the United States has been particularly driven by the Monroe doctrine in trying to keep European powers out of the Western hemisphere and expanding its own influence. This article questions what the European powers who still hold territory in the Western hemisphere will do in the face of this American expansionism, and how they will respond to the Pan-American movement and convention occurring soon.
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1906-08
Jacob H. Hollander sent William Loeb a separate letter concerning the Dominican debt negotiations. He asks that President Roosevelt send a letter to President of Johns Hopkins University Ira Remsen requesting a leave of absence for Hollander.
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1906-09-17
Before leaving New York, Federico Velásquez y Hernández, Minister of Finance and Commerce of Santo Domingo gave a statement about the results of his inquiries concerning the financial affairs of his country.
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1906-09-13
Document stipulating the terms of agreement between the Republic of Santo Domingo and Kuhn, Loeb and Company.
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1906-09-11
Theodore Roosevelt is looking forward to the arrival of a domesticated petrel from A. Mahafey. Roosevelt is sending Mahafey his new book called A Book Lover’s Holiday in the Open.
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1916-06-03
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
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 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 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 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
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 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
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 John St. Loe Strachey for remembering the upcoming wedding of his daughter Alice to Congressman Nicholas Longworth. Roosevelt is pleased with Longworth and hopes that he will have a successful career in politics. He reflects at length about politics in both Great Britain and the United States. In particular, Roosevelt discusses the function and manner of the United States Senate, and envies that a labor man is in Great Britain’s Cabinet.
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1906-02-12
President Roosevelt takes issue with some criticisms that Lincoln Steffens has made of his efforts to get Congress to ratify the Santo Domingo treaty. He points out that several Democrats are opposing the treaty merely to be obstructionist, rather than because of an honest difference of opinion. In contrast, Roosevelt believes that there is more room for honest differences in opinion in the railroad rate bill. Steffens’s idea that Roosevelt should refuse to make any concessions and to let the voters decide who is correct in the next election is flawed. Roosevelt cites evidence of voters supporting men who are on two sides of the same issue.
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1906-02-05