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Douglas Robinson wants to help Henry Corn, president of the Improved Property Holding Company. Corn wants to get his son transferred from Troop E to Troop H of the cavalry, so that his two sons can be together.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-10
Theodore Roosevelt declines to advise the War Department on the selection of Army Posts. He emphasizes that such decisions should be made solely based on the needs of the Army and not influenced by individual or local interests.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-07
Theodore Roosevelt tells Anthony Fiala that if there comes a war, he shall try to raise a division. Archibald Roosevelt will also try to raise a troop in Arizona. Roosevelt agrees with Fiala about the need for preparedness. Roosevelt has done all that he can, but it has been hard to make the people realize “how things are.”
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1916-07-04
Theodore Roosevelt writes to Fred P. Barnett that it is vital the United States make preparedness a priority. Other issues, such as who would supply arms and munitions, are of less importance.
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1915-12-31
Theodore Roosevelt writes to William J. Lee that he is glad that President Woodrow Wilson has abandoned his opposition to military preparedness, “although terribly late.”
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1915-10-20
Theodore Roosevelt hates to decline Captain Eldred’s request for him to take charge of the Reserve Brigade, but Roosevelt simply does not have the time. Roosevelt would like to meet Eldred and General O’Ryan later to hear more about the plan.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-10-16
Theodore Roosevelt believes that in the event of a war breaking out with Mexico, raising a division would be useless. The best men could not go, nor could Roosevelt himself go. He did, however, outline John Campbell Greenway’s plan in a recent speech.
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1915-08-04
Theodore Roosevelt tells Brigadier General Greenway his plan is “absolutely right.” There is a remote possibility the United States will engage in a war with Germany, and if there is a war with Mexico, Roosevelt will not go if it can be honorably avoided. Roosevelt believes that the United States should cut off the importation of warms into Mexico, put militia on the Mexican border, and trust the regular army to handle the work of conquest.
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1915-07-08
Theodore Roosevelt does not believe there will be trouble but wants Fitzhugh Lee in charge of the regiment and makes recommendations for Lee’s first and second in command. Roosevelt reminds Lee that the letter is confidential.
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1915-06-22
Theodore Roosevelt writes that while he is glad to meet another naval militia man in Arthur R. Pardington, he does not think Pardington’s plan would work.
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1915-01-19
President Roosevelt found Robert Lee Howze’s letter interesting. He did not know that Venezuela would need so “formidable” a force and will take the matter up with the General Staff at once.
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1908-04-21
President Roosevelt asks the General Staff of the War Department if a plan has been developed for the campaign against Venezuela. He directs any such campaign to be carried out with a force large enough to minimize the chance of resistance.
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1906-01-22
President Roosevelt will answer Emilio Aguinaldo if he writes. Roosevelt feels he has good reason to fear the Democrats are allowing the insurgency in the Philippines to continue for political reasons. He wants Lyman Abbott to meet with William Howard Taft as soon as Taft arrives.
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1901-12-24
Secretary of State Root returns President Roosevelt’s write-up on the Navy with some edits suggesting the postponement of war until they obtain the four battleships. Root says that it is “a bully spiel.”
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1908-04-13
Representative Hobson of Alabama writes to President Roosevelt that due to the probability of war with Japan, he feels they must maintain permanent control of the Pacific. After attempting to warn others at the Resolutions Committee at Denver, Hobson now asks Roosevelt if he will consider raising the issue in the next message to Congress, to secure the building of additional battle ships and the creation of an emergency fund, and to make his feelings on the matter clear.
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1908-07-21
Secretary of War Taft returns a letter from General Leonard Wood to President Roosevelt. He comments on some aspects of Wood’s character that he feels that the letter illustrates, as well as some of Wood’s observations about the state of the Philippines. Taft thinks that Wood is correct regarding the necessity of completing fortifications in the Philippines, and agrees with the desirability in keeping the United States’ fleet in the Pacific, but realizes that it may be impractical. He thinks that Wood is perhaps overly suspicious of the Japanese.
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1908-03-10
The positions of the Manchurian armies are as shown on the April 8 map. Interest has focused on the movements of Admiral Zinoviĭ Rozhestvenskiĭ’s combined divisions of the Pacific fleet.
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1905-05-19
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt has recommended that Captain Evans represent the Navy Department on a proposed “Board of Defense” that will form plans for a campaign. Roosevelt is confident that Secretary of the Navy Long will appoint Evans.
1898-03-19
Secretary of War Root encloses a confidential statement from the Joint Army and Navy Board regarding possible military operations on the Isthmus of Panama.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-23
John Addison Porter acknowledges to Max Schiemangk receipt of his letter addressed to President William McKinley. The letter tenders the services of a regiment of German soldiers, and has been forwarded to Secretary of War Russell A. Alger for consideration.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1898-05-13