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President Roosevelt wishes Arthur Hamilton Lee, a member of British Parliament, could have lunch with Secretary of State Elihu Root, Secretary of War William H. Taft and Assistant Secretary of State Robert Bacon and they could discuss various foreign affairs.
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1906-10-13
President Roosevelt thanks Ambassador Reid for the interesting letter. He comments on William Jennings Bryan’s recent speech, uncertain if he should “feel more irritated or sympathetic.” Roosevelt hopes to “persuade the Cubans to act decently” and continue in self-governance.
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1906-09-24
President Roosevelt sends his sympathy to George Otto Trevelyan upon the death of his sister, Viscountess Margaret Jean Trevelyan Knutsford. He thanks him for clarifying why many Englishmen distrust former Prime Minister James Arthur Balfour and discusses corruption and military armament. The foreign affairs regarding Newfoundland fishery regulations and civil unrest in Cuba prove frustrating. Roosevelt shares these frustrations with Trevelyan for “the fact that I have to blow off steam.”
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1906-09-09
President Roosevelt thanks Ambassador to Great Britain Reid for the letter. He finds that Canada’s actions strain foreign relations with Great Britain. Roosevelt asks Reid to deliver the enclosed letter to the hospital that aided the Americans involved in the Salisbury train-wreck.
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1906-08-27
President Roosevelt was glad to hear from Robert Harry Munro Ferguson and Isabella Ferguson, and tells them that his children Kermit Roosevelt and Ethel Roosevelt both enjoyed seeing them. Roosevelt has no objection to Ferguson’s older brother, Ronald Craufurd Munro Ferguson speaking with American ambassador Whitelaw Reid, and says that “there are some ticklish things coming up in connection with the Newfoundland fisheries, and there is always the possibility of its being really important to have a good man here.”
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1906-07-20
President Roosevelt welcomes Secretary of State Root back and “cheerfully” unloads the issues in Venezuela and Santo Domingo on him. He asks what Root thinks of enclosures from Edward Everett Hale and Admiral Colby Mitchell Chester, and also encloses a letter about Newfoundland from Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. Roosevelt says they need to think about who will replace Lloyd Carpenter Griscom as Ambassador to Japan if Griscom leaves. In a postscript, Roosevelt asks if Root, Lodge, and Joseph Hodges Choate can come spend a few nights at Oyster Bay.
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1905-09-05
President Roosevelt is going to try and get Secretary of State Elihu Root and Joseph Hodges Choate to come to Sagamore Hill when Senator Lodge will be there. He tells Lodge about the current situation in the Government Printing Office, where Francis Wayland Palmer was removed from his position and Roosevelt is trying to decide on a replacement. He also discusses the current unrest in Japan and tells Lodge that he has instructed Root to deal with the Newfoundland matter “as soon as possible.”
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1905-09-06
President Roosevelt discusses the timing of Secretary of State Root’s visit to Oyster Bay. He wants to hear what Root did in Labrador, and agrees with the approach Root suggests in dealing with the Spanish famine. Roosevelt also has heard that Root plans to speak in Ohio this fall; if he has not already committed, he would like to speak with Root before he accepts the invitation.
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1905-09-10
President Roosevelt shares his feelings about the recent election with Senator Crane, mentioning that he was pleased to have carried Missouri, but was saddened to learn of Massachusetts Governor John Lewis Bates’s defeat. Having secured victory, Roosevelt notes that he followed the decision he and Crane had come to by announcing immediately he would not be running for a third term. The president explains to Senator Crane he has written to Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Lodge about the Newfoundland reciprocity treaty, which Roosevelt believes needs an honest effort even though he does not think the United States will succeed with Canada.
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1904-11-12
President Roosevelt discusses several matters with Senator Lodge, including his correspondence with Massachusetts Representative Augustus Peabody Gardner, his amazement at carrying Missouri in the presidential election, the Newfoundland reciprocity treaty, and visits with mutual friends. The president hopes to see Lodge and his wife, Anna Cabot Mills Davis Lodge, soon.
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1904-11-12
President Roosevelt is struggling to convince other senators to take a broad-minded view of the Newfoundland reciprocity treaty. Roosevelt will not do anything about the Russian Jews at the moment.
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1904-09-24
In response to a previous letter from Elihu Root, President Roosevelt asks if he should communicate directly with James Speyer or wait until Root returns from Newfoundland.
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1904-09-02
Elihu Root has written to President Roosevelt about appointing a member to the commission that is working out a solution to the Venezuela debt crisis. Secretary of State John Hay has reservations about the proposed arrangement. Roosevelt would like Root, Hay, and himself to discuss Charles H. Tweed’s proposition.
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1904-09-07
After Judge Alton B. Parker’s letter to John G. Milburn, President Roosevelt thought it wise not to use the extract from Elihu Root’s speech in his letter of acceptance. Roosevelt hopes that Root stays in Newfoundland for as long as he can.
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1904-08-26
Acting Secretary of State Adee encloses a copy of a dispatch from Ambassador Whitelaw Reid on the subject of fishery rights in Newfoundland. The note from the Foreign Office states that the divergence of views between the American and British governments makes an immediate settlement impossible. The British government, however, is prepared to work on an arrangement allowing conflicting parties to exist peacefully and will submit relevant proposals in the near future.
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1906-08-28
Ambassador Reid wires President Roosevelt about a proposed temporary agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom regarding fishing vessels along the coast of Newfoundland.
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1906-09-06
L. C. Sanford thanks Theodore Roosevelt for the letter, which was exactly what he wanted. Edward William Nelson unfortunately was not able to come along, due to illness, and Sanford worries that he “is pretty much used up.” He nevertheless went on the trip to Newfoundland alone, but spent much of his time fishing instead of trying to get into the interior as he had previously planned.
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1911-06-30
L. C. Sanford introduces himself to Theodore Roosevelt, and asks him if he might be willing to write a letter of introduction to the government of Newfoundland, Canada, in order to allow himself and Edward William Nelson to travel there for some time to collect biological specimens. Nelson is in poor health, and may stay in the more healthy climate there for some time, but requires a permit from the government in order to do so. Sanford has written to the Newfoundland government previously, but has not gotten any results and hopes that Roosevelt’s influence may help produce an answer.
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1911-06-08
Baron Northcliffe offers Theodore Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt the use of his house if they visit Newfoundland.
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1911-01-16
George B. Clark offers to share moose-hunting tips with Theodore Roosevelt and thanks him for the interview.
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1911-01-11