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President Roosevelt was not impressed with James Alexander Scrymser and felt he was simply trying to interfere with a rival.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-10-05
President Roosevelt thanks Seth Low for the letter. He does not intend to give interviews or make a speech in the near future.
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1901-09-14
Herbert David Croly requests a meeting with Theodore Roosevelt to hear what he would like to say about his relationship with Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna, specifically the few years before Hanna died.
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1911-10-05
George G. Benjamin thanks Theodore Roosevelt for the autograph for his daughter, Ruth Benjamin. She is very interested in current events, and Benjamin asks if she could interview Roosevelt on October 1st.
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1911-09-18
William H. Owen requests a short interview with Theodore Roosevelt.
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1911-09-15
Blanche R. Sweeny asks Theodore Roosevelt for a confidential interview to discuss what she believes is a serious injustice done to her husband, Charles B. Sweeny, a longtime employee of the Naval Office and son of General Thomas W. Sweeny.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-13
John A. Sullivan expresses to Theodore Roosevelt his desire to discuss an important personal matter and respectfully requests an interview.
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1911-09-12
Ambassador Pourtalès informs Ambassador Tower that Edwin Lefevre cannot be received by German Emperor William II because the emperor is traveling extensively and can only receive official visits. Pourtalès, however, does appreciate Lefevre’s kind intentions.
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1907-09-13
Journalist Edward B. Clark forwards to President Roosevelt a copy of naturalist William J. Long’s book Northern Trails. Clark would like Roosevelt’s estimate of the accuracy of Long’s portrayal of the “white wolf tale.” He apologizes for having taken up so much of Roosevelt’s time already. Clark promises to send Roosevelt the magazine article after it is written.
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1907-02-06
Secretary of State Root sends President Roosevelt a copy of an interview which Ambassador George von Lengerke Meyer did with Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, on the Russian New Year.
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1907-02-04
John William Burgess wishes to inform President Roosevelt regarding a misunderstanding during an interview that Burgess gave to a reporter from the New York Tribune. Burgess was not talking about Roosevelt’s opinion of the Monroe Doctrine, but about American politicians in general. In his role as the inaugural Roosevelt Professor at Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin, Burgess has emphasized the separation of the professorship from “any relation to the diplomacy” between the United States and Germany.
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1906-12-29
United States Ambassador to Uruguay O’Brien encloses “Mr. Roosevelt and Senor Batile y Ordonez,” an El Dia article about an interview granted to the Uruguayan Charge d’ Affaires Pedro Requena Bermúdez by President Theodore Roosevelt, at which the former presented a photograph of President Ordonez to President Roosevelt.
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1906-12-19
Ambassador Francis tells President Roosevelt he fielded a request from the Neue Freie Presse, for an interview regarding the controversy between the United States and Japan on the tensions in California. Francis encloses what he gave the reporter. He also notes that about 400 guests came to a reception at the American Embassy on Thanksgiving Day, and he sends holiday greetings to the Roosevelts.
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1906-12-12
Ambassador Meyer sends a message to Secretary of State Hay concerning a published interview which was taken from the Petit Parisien newspaper. Meyer suggests that a reporter made up the interview.
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1905-06-17
Acting Secretary of State Loomis writes to William Loeb regarding Mexican President Porfirio Díaz, who wishes to offer an autographed letter to President Roosevelt. Loomis mentions that Roosevelt may want to meet with Díaz and asks Loeb what time Roosevelt is available. Loomis then discusses a letter he received from the so-called Chinese reformer Kang Wu Wei, who wishes to interview Loomis and Roosevelt. Loomis reveals that the Chinese Minister, whom he contacted, informed him that Wei was an impostor.
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1905-06-13
James Sullivan Clarkson forwards a letter to President Roosevelt from Colonel L. E. Parsons of Alabama.
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1904-12-20
Secretary of the Navy Moody quotes the telegram he sent to Major Littleton Waller Tazewell Waller, discouraging him from giving interviews about actions in the Philippines.
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1902-06-14
Felix Bagel, a Buenos Aires correspondent for the Berliner Tageblatt, requests an interview with Theodore Roosevelt to discuss German non-participation in the San Francisco exhibition, German relations with the United States, the influence of the United States in South America, and the Mexican questions.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1913-11-05
William II, the German Emperor, interviews J. Pierpont Morgan, who is sitting in a chair aboard the Corsair. William II has a long list labeled “What I want to know” of questions and wishes. Caption: He is granted an interview where others fail.
The backstory of this cartoon is the visit paid by the American financier J. P. Morgan to the German Kaiser, Wilhelm II. Morgan has sailed his yacht Corsair, with a crew of nearly 70, to England for the postponed coronation of Edward VII. He desired to meet and dine with another European monarch, yet he met in German waters to sound out another possibility. Having recently acquired the British North Star Line, he hoped to establish an international naval cartel if he could acquire or control the German Hamburg-America Line. The kaiser, who with his brother Prince Henry, an admiral, took particular interest in Germany’s fleets, was not interested. Cartoonist Pughe saw humor in turning the situation around — making Wilhelm the supplicant.
Historian Chester L. Brooks writes that he would like to record an interview with Henry J. Walz regarding his experiences with the Elkhorn Ranch.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1953-05-06