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President Roosevelt asks Acting Secretary of State Adee to communicate to Japanese Ambassador Kogoro Takahira profound sympathy to the accident on their battleship Kashima. The president remembers the concern that Japanese representatives have expressed to the United States when there have been similar accidents.
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1907-09-18
President Roosevelt expresses his concern about the accident on the Tennessee, and hopes the wounded are recovering well.
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1908-06-06
President Roosevelt would like to do as Admiral Evans desires in the matter of Captain William Swift’s court-martial. However, in speaking with naval officials and thinking over the matter, he cannot pardon Swift without also pardoning Captain Perry Garst. Pardoning both captains would set a bad precedent regarding accidents in which ships run aground.
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1907-05-04
President Roosevelt tells Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte that he believes any investigation into the recent marine accidents will come back in Admiral Robley D. Evans’s favor. It may be worth conducting the investigation anyway, however, in order to have an answer for Congress if it is requested.
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1906-08-18
President Roosevelt tells Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte that he thinks Rear Admiral George Albert Converse’s plan is all right. He agrees with Bonaparte that Admiral Robley D. Evans’s fleet is suffering too many collisions, and that Evans should understand that “the training should be such as to enable people to take risks, and yet the that the risks should not unnecessarily be taken.” Roosevelt asks Bonaparte to send him the official report about the actions of Edward M. Peters, Commander of the New Jersey Naval Militia, as he was impressed by the newspaper report he read.
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1906-08-06
President Roosevelt congratulates and thanks the Navy Department and Admiral Albert Smith Barker for the courage displayed immediately following the explosion aboard the USS Missouri.
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1904-05-14
President Roosevelt is pleased that the British statesman John Morley will be coming to the White House, and thanks Henry White for his kind words about the recent explosion on the battleship USS Missouri.
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1904-05-06
President Roosevelt appreciates Admiral Beresford’s sympathy regarding the fatal fire aboard the USS Roosevelt and takes pride in the “coolness and good conduct” of those aboard the ship. He feels that everything possible should be done to prevent a recurrence of the accident but also that preparing for modern war requires some danger.
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1904-05-06
President Roosevelt cannot believe the “catastrophe,” referring to the explosion on the USS Missouri, and sends his sympathies to Captain Cowles and all his officers and men. The last telegram from Admiral Albert Smith Barker made Roosevelt feel “pride even over sorrow.”
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1904-04-15
President Roosevelt returns Captain William S. Cowles’s letter after showing it to Secretary of the Navy William H. Moody. The USS Missouri tragedy is “well-nigh too dreadful to think of.”
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1904-04-15
President Roosevelt sends a donation for the family members of the men killed in a training accident aboard the USS Missouri. He believes the men “died for their country as much as if the ship had been in action against an enemy.”
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1904-04-14
President Roosevelt expresses his grief and shock after the explosion on the USS Missouri.
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1904-04-14
Carl Theodore Vogelgesang, commander of the presidential yacht USS Mayflower, sends William Loeb an explanation of the circumstances surrounding the recent grounding of the ship to be presented to President Roosevelt.
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1908-03-08
Admiral Beresford thanks President Roosevelt for his letter and explains that he wrote to Roosevelt twice about the accident on the USS Missouri because he was afraid his first letter had not reached Roosevelt.
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1904-06-22
The commanding officer of the USS Missouri notifies the Court of Inquiry that he wishes to be tried before a General Court Martial if it is determined that he is responsible for a recent explosion on board the ship.
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1904-04-29
Rear Admiral Barker reports to Secretary of the Navy Moody that the Court of Inquiry has cleared Captain Wm. S. Cowles of all responsibility regarding the April 13, 1904, fatal turret fire on board the USS Missouri.
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1904-04-29
Henry White informs President Roosevelt that the British statesman John Morley plans to visit Roosevelt in November. Morley also hopes to visit with industrialist Andrew Carnegie in Pittsburgh. White also discusses the recent explosion on the battleship USS Missouri and the Russo-Japanese War.
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1904-04-27
Francis C. Travers was pleased to see in the newspaper the telegram from President Roosevelt’s brother-in-law Captain William S. Cowles to Archbishop John M. Farley in reference to U.S. Navy Chaplain Matthew C. Gleeson. Travers praises Cowles’s bravery amidst hardships. He extends sympathies concerning a recent accident, probably the explosion on the USS Missouri, to Roosevelt and to Anna Roosevelt Cowles.
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1904-04-19
Admiral Beresford expresses condolences to President Roosevelt regarding the April 13, 1904, fatal fire aboard the USS Missouri.
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1904-04-18
Seth Low expresses sorrow concerning the naval explosion on the USS Missouri, which killed 36 of its crew. He commends Admiral William S. Cowles, the commander of the ship and Roosevelt’s brother-in-law, for saving the ship from sinking. Low was presented to French president Émile François Loubet, who asked about Roosevelt’s campaign. He also mentions having met French General Henri Joseph Brugè.
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1904-04-16