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President Roosevelt informs Representative Diekema that he has received a copy of the petition to establish a Dutch Chair at the University of Chicago, which already has around six hundred signatures. He supports the petition and sincerely hopes the position will be created.
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1908-09-21
With delight, President Roosevelt shares with Senator Lodge the newspaper account of a riot in Brownfield, Texas, over the erection of a Roosevelt statue. He is glad for the invitation from George Nathaniel Curzon, the Chancellor of Oxford, to present the Romanes lecture on his return from Africa. It is an honor, and it gives him a legitimate reason for visiting England. The matter of renominating Governor Charles Evans Hughes grows worse, and Roosevelt worries about the impact it may have on William H. Taft’s election.
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1908-08-18
Edward J. Cox invites Theodore Roosevelt to give a lecture on November 18th about Holland in the latter half of the 18th century. If Roosevelt cannot attend, Cox wonders if he can recommend another “New York Hollander” to come speak.
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1911-10-09
Arnold White writes about the international situation in Europe, addressing first Russia’s desire for a warm water port, and then his impression of Germany’s goals with regards to Europe. Germany, White says, is the only nation with something to gain from a European war, and that the push for war is coming from the Jewish influence in Germany. With President Roosevelt’s election and friendship towards Germany, the United States has been removed as a potential deterrent toward German aggression. White ends with a prediction that if war happens, it will come through German aggression towards the Netherlands moving towards a collision with Great Britain, and he admonishes his reader that Germany must be watched.
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1905-04
Theodore Roosevelt writes to his sister about his and Alice Lee Roosevelt’s short trip through the Netherlands. Roosevelt writes about his impressions of the art he has seen in the country.
1881-08-24
A bull dog labeled “England,” a whippet (or greyhound) labeled “Italy,” and a dachshund labeled “Germany” gather around a dish labeled “Preferred Claims” full of food labeled “Venezuela.” Sitting above them on a fence are four cats labeled “Belgium, Spain, France, [and] Holland” with the fur on their backs raised. Both cats and dogs are seeking payment from Venezuela for its international debts.
This cover cartoon expands upon Joseph Keppler’s cartoon of the previous week in Puck, which showed only England, Germany, and Italy as animals hungry to collect financial claims again the outlaw government in Venezuela. Here, Pughe adds four cats, on the fence, howling for their own just claims. The only nation both cartoons ignored was the United States, which had its own claims. Cartoons on the same topic in the weekly magazine indicate what a hot topic the Venezuelan debt crisis was, and it led to President Roosevelt formulating the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.
President Roosevelt provides Secretary of State Hay with a list of appointments in the diplomatic and consular service after March 4, 1905. Roosevelt includes a handwritten note, “All this is tentative.”
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1904-12-17
President Roosevelt is interested in the conversation with Henry White regarding the Danish Islands. Roosevelt believes that the Dutch and Danish possessions in the Americas will be a constant temptation for Germany until the United States takes possession of them. A strong navy will also deter Germany. Roosevelt enjoyed his time in Yellowstone but is not looking forward to the next six weeks of travel.
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1903-04-22
Theodore Roosevelt writes to John H. Bernhard to thank him for the letter and the $50 check. He encourages Bernhard to become a United States citizen.
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1912-07-01
Theodore Roosevelt thanks P. J. N. Van Doornidt for the book and portfolio with the Dutch lullaby which he is fond of. He enjoyed his visit to the Netherlands and is glad his friends there remember it with pleasure.
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1911-03-03
Theodore Roosevelt enjoyed his visit to the Netherlands Pavilion at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
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1915-08-06
Theodore Roosevelt writes to Lauro Müller, Minister of Foreign Affairs in Brazil, on behalf of Major George Patrick Ahern, who was formerly the head of the U.S. Forest Service in the Philippines. Ahern has been asked to assist the British and Dutch governments in the development and use of their forests and Roosevelt knows no one so progressive and far-sighted as Müller who might assist Ahern in his work.
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1915-07-02
Theodore Roosevelt thanks W.P. Hamilton for his letter and compliments Hamilton’s editorial regarding Dutch neutrality during World War I.
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1915-05-13
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Robert Harry Munro Ferguson for the letter and conveys greetings from his family. Roosevelt is sending Ferguson a book, and asks that he share it with Ronald Craufurd Munro Ferguson once he is finished with it. Roosevelt tells about a conversation he had with a German friend who said that the way the United States neglected its duty in Mexico had caused as much suffering as Germany’s actions caused in Belgium, and that Roosevelt thinks he is right. Roosevelt also comments on many people who want to keep America out of the war, and says that England suffers because of the current prominence of their point of view.
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1915-01-22
Theodore Roosevelt believes the Wilson administration has behaved scandalously. Roosevelt complains about Henry Van Dyke praising Woodrow Wilson and William Jennings Bryan.
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1914-11-28
President Roosevelt asks Minister of Colonial Affairs Idenburg if the Dutch government would be able to aid Roger S. Warner in an upcoming project. Warner, on behalf of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, hopes to conduct excavations in Java to learn more about its artistic and archaeological history, a venture which Roosevelt supports.
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1909-02-15
President Roosevelt introduces Ernest Louis Leopold van Tuyll van Serooskerken, a diplomat and wildlife conservationist, to Yellowstone Superintendent Pitcher.
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1905-03-02
President Roosevelt believes that the Danish and Dutch possessions in America will be a constant temptation to Germany. Roosevelt wants to keep expanding the navy to dissuade German ambitions. Roosevelt has enjoyed his time in Yellowstone but is not looking forward to the next six weeks of the trip.
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1903-04-22
Wayne MacVeagh reports on the events leading up to his suggestion that the Venezuelan blockade by Great Britain, Italy, and Germany be resolved through arbitration at the Hague. MacVeagh believes that the nations’ willingness to use the court and abide by its decision bodes well for continuing international peace.
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1903-1904
Frank A. Harrison sends Theodore Roosevelt a six-volume history of the Netherlands written in Dutch and printed in 1621.
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1911-10-30