Jusserand, J. J. (Jean Jules), 1855-1932

President Roosevelt tells his son Kermit Roosevelt that he is visiting New Orleans and believes the risk of infection from the yellow fever outbreak there is small. He is interested to hear that Kermit is playing the same position in football that his older brother Ted played two years ago. He updates Kermit on what has been going on at the White House, where the rest of the family is settling in after the summer in Oyster Bay.

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1905-10-05

President Roosevelt tells Ambassador Reid that he sent British Ambassador H. Mortimer Durand communications relating to the peace negotiations between Russia and Japan. He explains to Reid that he did not communicate with Reid because he was communicating freely with the British, French, and German ambassadors and legations directly.

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1905-09-29

President Roosevelt thanks Theodore Ayrault Dodge for sending him the “awfully nice phrase” from French Ambassador J. J. Jusserand.

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1905-10-02

President Roosevelt asks whether or not Brander Matthews knows French Ambassador J. J. Jusserand personally. He will read Howell’s article and Matthews’s speech on recently deceased Secretary of State John Hay. Roosevelt comments on how “mean and foolish” the novel Democracy is.

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1905-09-02

On behalf of President Roosevelt, William Loeb asks French Charge d’Affaires Des Portes de la Fosse to send a copy of a telegram Roosevelt sent to Ambassador George von Lengerke Meyer to French Ambassador J. J. Jusserand for his information.

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1905-08-27

President Roosevelt’s acting secretary, Benjamin F. Barnes, sends French Chargé d’Affaires Henri Jacques André Des Portes de la Fosse a message addressed to Ambassador J. J. Jusserand, and asks for it to be put in cipher and cabled to him.

A handwritten note indicates that this message was cancelled, and a copy sent to Newport, Rhode Island.

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President Roosevelt wishes he could see French Ambassador Jusserand, as he recently received a cable from an unnamed friend (almost certainly German ambassador Herman Speck von Sternburg). The message is in relation to the choice of negotiators and proposed location for an upcoming Moroccan conference. Roosevelt will wait to hear from Jusserand and the French government before responding.

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1905-07-24

President Roosevelt tells Senator Lodge of his sorrow at the death of John Hay, who, while not flawless as Secretary of State, he greatly respected. He believes Elihu Root will be a good Secretary of State. Roosevelt updates Lodge on the progress of arranging peace talks between the Japanese and Russians, as well as his part serving as an intermediary between France and Germany. Newspapers are speculating that Root agreed to join the cabinet as a step towards the presidency, but Roosevelt feels that Secretary of War William H. Taft may make a better candidate.

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1905-07-11

President Roosevelt has requested a special report from Secretary of the Treasury Albert M. Shaw, and will communicate further with German Ambassador Sternburg once he receives it. He hopes that France will act along the lines Sternburg outlined in a previous telegram, and will speak with French Ambassador J. J. Jusserand about it.

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1905-06-30

President Roosevelt shares with Senator Lodge the in-depth details of how he worked to arrange a peace conference between Russia and Japan, including substantial quotations from letters and telegrams between himself and officials of both governments, as well as with Ambassador George von Lengerke Meyer and Ambassador Lloyd Carpenter Griscom. He writes frankly of his views of the two nations, and is not sure whether the negotiations will be successful.

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1905-06-16

President Roosevelt asks Secretary of Commerce and Labor Metcalf to prepare a full report on an enclosed memorandum he received from French Ambassador J. J. Jusserand. He requests the names of the immigration officials “who seemingly perpetrated the outrage on those three French engineers,” and says that they should be punished if they cannot explain their conduct.

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1905-06-19

This memorandum draft tells Ambassador Reid to have Henry Charles Keith Petty-FitzMaurice Lansdowne show him the dispatch received from British Ambassador H. Mortimer Durand about Russia. Additionally, President Roosevelt has informed German Ambassador Hermann Speck von Sternburg he does not believe the United States could join a conference about Morocco, unless France acquiesced. Roosevelt also spoke with J. J. Jusserand, but does not want any publicity.

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1905-06-06

Before he leaves for six weeks of travel, President Roosevelt updates Secretary of State Hay on a number of foreign relations issues. In particular, he discusses his efforts to begin peace talks between Russia and Japan, and the worries of the German emperor.

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1905-04-02

President Roosevelt writes to Speaker of the House Cannon, enclosing a letter from Wayne MacVeagh and asking that Cannon makes the arrangements that MacVeagh desires. He mentions that the French Ambassador is feeling some chagrin at the apparent neglect.

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1905-01-10

Gifford Pinchot advises Theodore Roosevelt that “the man who wore gloves while swimming” may be able to help “allay executive opposition.” The man referred to by Pinchot may be Ambassador Jusserand who famously wore gloves while swimming across the Potomac River with Roosevelt and Pinchot.

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1910-1919

President Roosevelt thanks Henry White for the book and stockings.

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1903-02-25

President Roosevelt has enjoyed Shakespeare and Voltaire and would like Professor Lounsbury to meet the new Ambassador J. J. Jusserand from France.

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1903-02-11

Gifford Pinchot provides a forecast to Theodore Roosevelt on an upcoming vote in the United States Senate on the issue of selective service. Henry Cabot Lodge believes that James Wolcott Wadsworth will “vote right” and that only Robert M. La Follette and Asle J. Gronna among the Republicans will fail to do so. The Harding Amendment is expected to pass. Pinchot is trying to arrange a voice for Roosevelt with Jean Jules Jusserand and Joseph Joffre, French officials consulting with Congress on the incorporation of American forces into the war. Lastly, Pinchot is glad that Roosevelt spoke out against the brewers and distillers, as grain is needed for the war effort.

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1917-04-26

Assistant Secretary of the Navy Winthrop and his wife Melza Riggs Wood Winthrop were distressed to hear of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt’s horse-riding accident. They are glad to hear she is recovering. Winthrop is sure Theodore Roosevelt was anxious. He recalls the pleasant time spent in the “Tennis Cabinet,” although playing tennis, especially with Ambassador J. J. Jusserand, reminds him of the White House court. 

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1911-11-12

Charles D. Walcott signed a letter to Henry Fairfield Osborn notifying him of the transfer of two white rhinoceros skins that Theodore Roosevelt collected. He was sorry to hear of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt’s accident and hopes she is recovering, especially as he knows what it is like to have someone close experience a serious accident. Childs Frick and Edmund Heller are in Abyssinia (Ethiopia) to augment the specimens collected while on safari with Roosevelt. Walcott will soon be in New York City and hopes to see Roosevelt.

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1911-11-03