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President Roosevelt sends University of California President Wheeler a copy of the senators’ letter. To resolve the matter of confirming Clarence S. Merrill, Roosevelt requests more information about him and Charles E. Thomas. He also directs Wheeler to “get me as strong a protest as possible.”
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1907-08-29
Diplomatic opinion in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany is that the United States will lose a war with Japan if one breaks out. President Roosevelt believes that the only thing that can prevent a war is making the Japanese believe they will be beaten, which can only be done by making the Navy more efficient. Roosevelt is inclined to warn officials in San Francisco of the injury created by their discriminatory policies against Japanese immigrants.
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1907-07-23
Secretary of State Root informs President Roosevelt that he will visit this evening after all. Root has prepared a telegram to San Francisco Mayor Eugene E. Root. If Roosevelt approves it, Root asks that Roosevelt have the White House operator send it. Root suggests that he and Roosevelt could write a telegram to send to the Governor of California James Norris Gillett about the threat of discrimination against Japanese students in California school. Root expresses his frustration, writing “Did you ever see such idiots?”
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1907-03-10
President Roosevelt introduces an enclosed letter summarizing the conclusions of the recent White House Conference on the Care of Dependent Children, and a program of its attendees. One conclusion was that Roosevelt should send each governor a copy of the proceedings for state governments to reference. While the proceedings are being published, Roosevelt sends these enclosures for immediate use. He hopes that the governors will actively promote the Conference’s cause. The names of the governors who received this letter are then listed.
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1909-02-02
President Roosevelt thanks California Assemblyman Drew for his “frank and manly” letter. Roosevelt asks Drew if the goal could be met while striving to fulfill Secretary of State Elihu Root’s suggestions.
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1909-01-27
President Roosevelt informs California Assemblyman Drew that he has sent him a copy of the letter about proposed legislation in California. Roosevelt asks Drew to wait until the letter comes.
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1909-01-28
President Roosevelt writes to the Admirals and Captains of the Battle Fleet to introduce his sister-in-law, Harriet Paine Lee Hammond, and her husband, Charles Mifflin Hammond. He asks that they are shown all proper courtesies and are given a chance to visit any vessel in the fleet.
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1908-03-24
President Roosevelt informs Representative James M. Miller, Chairman of the Committee on Claims, that he has asked Secretary of the Interior James Rudolph Garfield, Frederick Haynes Newell, and Charles D. Walcott to investigate what the government should pay as its share of the expenses related to the Southern Pacific Railway’s saving of the Imperial Valley of southern California. Although there is no legal obligation to pay, Roosevelt believes there is a moral obligation to reimburse the Southern Pacific Railway for its action.
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1908-03-11
Homer N. Bryant expresses his deep admiration for Theodore Roosevelt, and would have liked to meet him while he was on the West coast. Because of Roosevelt’s busy schedule, however, Bryant simply sends him a letter introducing himself and wishing Roosevelt well.
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1911-03-28
Benjamin Ide Wheeler, president of the University of California, tells President Roosevelt that he will lecture at the University of Berlin on various topics of American life. He asks Roosevelt if he can come to California in August. Wheeler has been out to visit farmers with six other university professors on their “agricultural train,” where the farmers’ dislike of Japanese people was a common subject. Wheeler feels that the California Legislature should do nothing about it, with the matter better left in Roosevelt’s hands.
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1909-02-09
As President of the New York Peace Society, Andrew Carnegie informs President Roosevelt that a meeting may soon take place to attempt to sway Governor of California James Norris Gillett to stop certain anti-Japanese immigration bills in the California legislature. Carnegie believes, however, that it may be wise to wait for further developments before such a meeting takes place and asks for Roosevelt’s input.
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1909-01-21
A list of letters concerning rising tensions with Japan received by President Roosevelt and members of his administration during July, 1907. Summaries of the contents, creators, and recipients of the letters are included.
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1907-07-31
Secretary of State Root believes that officials of San Francisco, California, are smugly pursuing policies that will insult and irritate Japan and will result in war. He believes that a letter like the one written by Charles Denby should be sent to Governor James Norris Gillett of California and notes the disinclination of Germany to get along with Japan.
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1907-07-21
President Wheeler of the University of California gives President Roosevelt an update on the San Francisco Graft Trials. Wheeler also gives Roosevelt a summary of the candidates for the 1906 California gubernatorial race and relates how California schools are segregating Chinese, Japanese, and Korean students.
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1906-10-31
This black and white postcard features portraits of the governors of California from 1859 to 1911. The back of the postcard lists their names and dates in office.
1911