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President Roosevelt sends Mexico Secretary of Finance Limantour his thanks and reports that Alice Roosevelt Longworth is doing well.
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1907-12-14
Alice Roosevelt Longworth is doing well. President Roosevelt sends his sympathies to William Emlen Roosevelt’s wife, Christine Griffin Kean Roosevelt. Roosevelt agrees with his cousin Emlen regarding speaking out about his decision to not run for a third term. He heard from Edward King, and has asked Secretary of the Treasury George B. Cortelyou about his proposal. The Western banks are complaining that the government gave too much money to the New York banks.
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1907-12-15
President Roosevelt writes his son Kermit Roosevelt about the events of Thanksgiving week. His son Archibald B. Roosevelt has taken extremely ill, although he has had a good time at the Groton School. Roosevelt has gone on several outings with friends and plans to go riding with Henry Cabot Lodge the next day.
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1907-11-30
Replying to Representative Longworth, President Roosevelt views the election of Republican Augustus Everett Willson as Governor of Kentucky as a positive and seeks to support him. While he likes Richard Pretlow Ernst, Roosevelt does not want Willson to feel attacked. The chance Kentucky votes Republican in next year’s election will disappear if the national administration gives the impression of disagreeing with the state administration. Roosevelt hopes Alice Roosevelt Longworth feels better and wishes to visit soon. In a postscript, Roosevelt outlines Ernst’s options and advises he not make himself an opponent of the newly elected Republican governor.
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1907-11-11
President Roosevelt informs Representative Longworth that he has given Longworth’s letter to Secretary of War William H. Taft. He warns Longworth to consider the consequences before deciding to get in the fight over the collectorship. Roosevelt directs Longworth to tell his daughter, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, that he never received the letter. He asks if Aunt Ia (Maria Longworth Storer) has published a fresh collection of correspondence. In a post-script, Roosevelt relays that Taft thinks that changing the collectorship “would cause more harm than good.”
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1907-05-14
President Roosevelt updates his son Kermit Roosevelt on the condition of his brother Archibald B. Roosevelt, who has been ill with diphtheria, and all the gifts and good wishes he has received from his classmates and brother Quentin Roosevelt. Roosevelt does not think it is a good idea for Kermit to come to Washington to visit, as he may not be allowed to return to Groton School because of exposure.
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1907-03-07
President Roosevelt discusses his upcoming Harvard visit with his son Ted, who is considering moving for the coming school year. Roosevelt believes Ted should move into a boarding house outside campus, where he could better enjoy Cambridge’s social life, and save on rent. If Ted will accompany his father to Riverside Press and Chestnut Hill, they can have time to talk during the drive there.
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1907-02-14
President Roosevelt writes his son Kermit Roosevelt at the Groton School with news of home, including details about his sister Alice Roosevelt Longworth and mother Edith Roosevelt. He also mentions several pending commissionership appointments and shares news about his pending Nobel Peace Prize award.
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1906-12-01
President Roosevelt sends his congratulations to Representative Longworth.
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1906-11-05
President Roosevelt tells his sister, Anna Roosevelt Cowles, that he will write to her husband, William S. Cowles to see if he would be willing to come up for a day to join them at the naval review. He is looking forward to having Cowles and her son, William Sheffield Cowles, visit them soon. They recently were visited by Nicholas and Alice Roosevelt Longworth, and had a pleasant time. Roosevelt was very interested about what Cowles wrote about Joseph W. Alsop and his friend, and would like to see them sometime next winter, because he is scheduled to give an address in the spring that touches on some of the topics they work on.
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1906-08-21
President Roosevelt invites his brother-in-law, Rear Admiral Cowles, to join him on the presidential yacht for an upcoming naval review. He apologizes that he cannot invite Cowles to stay with him at his house because the do not have any vacant rooms at the moment, and so proposes that Cowles could come up on a night train, stay the day, and then return on another night train.
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1906-08-21
President Roosevelt sends his sister, Anna Roosevelt Cowles a deed to some land, and explains that he has agreed to get permission from his cousin, William Emlen Roosevelt, to build some buildings on the southernmost portion of his beach. Roosevelt would be happy to pay Cowles any price she wishes, and wants her to talk it over with her husband, William S. Cowles. Roosevelt mentions several people who have visited him recently.
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1906-08-15
President Roosevelt recently received a copy of French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau’s recent speech, responding to Jean Jaurès, and asks French Ambassador Jusserand to tell Clemenceau of Roosevelt’s admiration of the speech. Roosevelt agrees with nearly everything Clemenceau said, and was interested to see that Clemenceau’s policies are very similar to Roosevelt’s own. He comments that if anything he would have been more extreme in his insistence of putting down mob violence, and reflects on situations in France and Russia, believing the Russian Duma is acting improperly by currently working to abolish the death penalty while at the same time assassination is rife in Russia. Congressman Nicholas Longworth is having Clemenceau’s speech translation and printed.
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1906-08-16
President Roosevelt tells Gilbert John Murray Kynynmond Elliot, Earl of Minto and Viceroy of India that his daughter, Alice Longworth, has wished to travel to India for some time, but because her husband, Nicholas Longworth is a member of Congress they are not able to travel at the usual time. He asks Minto for advice regarding which dates it would be possible to see something of Southern India between late spring and early fall, in case they are able to make a trip there.
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1906-08-17
President Roosevelt writes to his son Kermit Roosevelt, who is currently on a trip in the Dakotas, and reminisces about his own time there. Life at Sagamore Hill is pleasant, and Roosevelt updates Kermit on the comings and goings and activities happening around the place.
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1906-08-18
President Roosevelt asks German Ambassador Sternburg to pass along his thanks to German Emperor William II, Empress Auguste Viktoria, Crown Prince August Wilhelm, and Crown Princess Cecilie for the messages they sent him, and for the courtesy they showed to Roosevelt’s daughter and son-in-law Alice Longworth and Representative Nicholas Longworth during their recent European honeymoon. Roosevelt also appreciated the Emperor’s courtesy towards American Special Ambassador Frederick W. Whitridge in granting him an interview.
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1906-07-21
President Roosevelt believes Ambassador Reid has acted admirably in every case, and treated William Jennings Bryan well while he visited England. Roosevelt reflects on the Democratic party and Bryan’s role in it, and believes that Bryan will be the party’s presidential candidate in 1908. Because of Bryan’s travels around the world, however, he has been “broadened,” and “would be a far less dangerous man now then he would have been ten years ago.” While Roosevelt feels that Bryan is shallow, he admits that he is also kind and well-meaning, and while he would be a poor president, he would not be such intentionally. Roosevelt additionally thanks Reid for the consideration he paid Silas McBee during his visit to England, although he wishes there were not so many Americans who were enthusiastic to meet royalty.
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1906-07-27
President Roosevelt thanks former Secretary of the Navy Paul Morton for the suggestion about good roads, and will do what he can to act on it. He agrees with Morton about Attorney General William H. Moody’s character, but does not feel that he can put another person from Massachusetts on the Supreme Court bench at this time.
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1906-07-30
President Roosevelt was only concerned about the letter he had sent Ambassador Reid because of its nature, but permits him to show any portions he deems proper to King Edward VII of Great Britain or Sir Edward Grey. He also recommends Reid make Roosevelt’s dislike of British Ambassador H. Mortimer Durand known, emphasizing that if he had been a man Roosevelt liked, he would have consulted with him more. Roosevelt reflects on the strategies he uses in foreign relations, particularly with the Germans and German Emperor William II, but also with the English and Japanese, which he describes as “to be scrupulously polite, to show a genuine good-will toward her, but to keep our navy in such shape” so as to deter any aggression. He sends his greetings to Reid’s wife, Elisabeth Mills Reid, and remarks that he enjoyed reading about the social news from England.
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1906-06-27
President Roosevelt tells Ambassador Reid that it is not necessary to change Alice Roosevelt Longworth’s plans.
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1906-06-15