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President Roosevelt encloses Senator Samuel Douglas McEnery’s letter about Alcée Fortier and a memorandum from John Avery McIlhenny regarding the places to which Fortier could be appointed. Roosevelt tells Assistant Secretary of State Bacon that French Ambassador J. J. Jusserand would be pleased if Fortier could be given something.
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1908-05-13
President Roosevelt thanks Louis Madelin for Le Rome de Napoleon, his book on Roman history.
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1908-04-29
President Roosevelt thanks Supreme Court Justice Moody for showing him Mather’s speech, and remarks on the pleasant time they had at the Jusserands’.
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1908-02-24
President Roosevelt tells his son, Kermit Roosevelt, about playing tennis, and while he enjoyed it he will keep to walking for the time being for exercise due to the cold weather. Roosevelt had delivered a speech on trusts and labor to Congress. With the election coming closer, the public are beginning to pay more attention to what the candidates are saying rather than himself, and Roosevelt relished one of his last opportunities to speak before Congress.
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1908-02-02
President Roosevelt tells Albert Shaw that he enjoyed his first volume and would like to talk over Thomas Jefferson with him. Additionally, he tells Shaw that Alexander Ular should be presented by the French Ambassador to avoid any problems.
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1908-01-17
President Roosevelt tells his son Kermit Roosevelt about a visit he made to Ambassador J. J. Jusserand and his wife, Elise Richards Jusserand, and the nice time he had there. Roosevelt also comments on the weather, saying that he has been able to go riding and play tennis often. Things are going well with Secretary of War William H. Taft at present, but politics is too changeable to say he will for sure be nominated. Roosevelt did not write to Endicott Peabody about Kermit going to Princeton, as he sounded set on going to Harvard and Roosevelt did not think of suggesting anywhere else.
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1908-01-20
President Roosevelt thanks French Senator Émile Dupont for the plaque he received through Ambassador J. J. Jusserand which commemorated the St. Louis Exposition.
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1908-01-22
President Roosevelt passed along a letter from Kermit Roosevelt to Isabella. He teases his son, mentioning that he did not open the letter but expects a letter of his own from her soon. He updates Kermit on the weather and horse riding and rock climbing excursions he has taken with various visitors.
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1908-01-15
President Roosevelt writes to Anna Roosevelt Cowles to thank her for the lamp, and wishes her son, William Sheffield Cowles, could have been at the White House for Christmas. It was Christmas in “the usual style,” and then a three hour ride with the chattering children and Fitzhugh Lee, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, and Secretary of State Elihu Root. They had lunch with the Lodge and Cooley families and then Roosevelt played tennis with Ambassador J. J. Jusserand, Ted Roosevelt and Kermit Roosevelt.
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1907-12-25
President Roosevelt tells Brander Matthews he has received the Cicero and will order the Catiline, which French Ambassador Jusserand has called highly amusing. Likely, Roosevelt will only glance at the railroad article as he prefers to spend his spare time with lighter reading.
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1907-12-18
President Roosevelt values William Allen White’s friendship greatly, and he will give Ambassador J. J. Jusserand the book immediately. He hopes White and his wife, Sallie Moss Lindsay White, can come visit, perhaps for the Army and Navy Reception.
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1907-12-23
Archibald B. Roosevelt is recovering well from his surgery and is excited to return to Groton. President Roosevelt was touched by the fondness Archie showed Kermit Roosevelt before and after the surgery. Roosevelt also tells Kermit about a walk he had taken with several friends in which they lost French Ambassador J. J. Jusserand in the woods and an enjoyably informal dinner with several hunters.
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1907-12-08
President Roosevelt writes to Archie Roosevelt that one letter home will suffice for both parents and gives updates on his life at home with Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt. He recently had visitors for tennis and French Ambassador J. J. Jusserand brought him a medal from an artist. When he came home he brought Quentin Roosevelt bear tusks and a stuffed copperhead skin.
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1907-10-27
President Roosevelt highly compliments Oscar Roty for the commemorative medal he had designed in honor of the death of French President Sadi Carnot and is grateful to have received a replica.
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1907-10-27
President Roosevelt has sent copies of William Allen White’s Stratagems and Spoils: Stories of Love and Politics to friends including French Ambassador J. J. Jusserand. Roosevelt will introduce White to Jusserand and encloses his response.
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1907-10-03
President Roosevelt promises William Allen White he will look into the matter concerning Judge J. T. Dickerson. Roosevelt asks if White received his earlier letter enclosing a note from J. J. Jusserand about White’s book.
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1907-10-23
President Roosevelt would like to know what Ambassador to France Henry White thought about the visit from Haakon VII, King of Norway. Roosevelt is extremely concerned with the race riots in San Francisco. He expects that there will be more trouble, and has arranged troops to be nearby, but he needs to make sure the situation warrants troops. He blames some of the problems on Japanese extremists, but states Japanese are right to want Japanese treated better here. Roosevelt says “every nation has, of course, the right to limit immigration and naturalization according to its own view of public policy.”
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1907-06-15
President Roosevelt again thanks Ambassador Nabuco for receiving the book by Jean Jules Jusserand, ambassador from France to the United States, but is happy that Nabuco signed it.
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1907-05-22
President Roosevelt encloses a letter for his son, Kermit Roosevelt. They have the choice of fishing in Wisconsin or duck and chicken shooting in Minnesota or Dakota. Roosevelt describes the spring weather and scenery on a ride. He is dealing with friends pressuring him to run for a third term, which he does not want to do. Roosevelt thinks the Republican Party will be able to nominate Secretary of War William H. Taft, but it is too early to call since the election is so far off. He plays tennis with J. J. Jusserand and others on days that he does not ride horses.
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1907-05-15
President Roosevelt thanks Joaquim Nabuco, the Brazilian Ambassador to the United States, for a copy of one of Jean Jules Jusserand’s books. Roosevelt wishes to send the books back so Nabuco can inscribe it.
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1907-05-17