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Theodore Roosevelt writes to Professor Kofoid of the University of California, Berkeley, regarding articles and pamphlets written by Henry Chester Tracy, Abbott Handerson Thayer, J. A. Allen, and Edward William Nelson on the topic of birds, plumage, and biological research.
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1911-02-02
Theodore Roosevelt tells Tracy I. Storer, assistant curator of birds at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at Berkeley, that he thinks Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Vernon Bailey, Florence Merriam Bailey, George Shiras, and Edward William Nelson could write a “monumental” and “genuine” natural history of land vertebrates in North America.
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1915-02-06
President Roosevelt hopes that Gifford Pinchot will represent the United States as a commissioner at the conference on the conservation of natural resources in North America. Roosevelt has also selected Secretary of State Robert Bacon and Secretary of the Interior James Rudolph Garfield to serve as commissioners.
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1909-02-11
President Roosevelt has invited Canada and Mexico to a conference in Washington, D.C., on the conservation of natural resources in North America. The three commissioners he would like to represent the United States government are Secretary of State Robert Bacon, Secretary of the Interior Garfield, and Gifford Pinchot, chief of the United States Forest Service. Roosevelt encloses to Garfield a copy of his letter of invitation in lieu of instructions.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-02-11
President Roosevelt has invited Canada and Mexico to a conference in Washington, D.C., on the conservation of natural resources in North America. The three commissioners he would like to represent the United States government are Secretary of State Bacon, Secretary of the Interior James Rudolph Garfield, and Gifford Pinchot, chief of the United States Forest Service. Roosevelt encloses to Bacon a copy of his letter of invitation in lieu of instructions.
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1909-02-11
President Roosevelt thanks Earl Grey for his letter and hopes for the opportunity to see him. The president remembers Grey’s previous visit with pleasure.
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1904-11-21
Theodore Roosevelt tells George Bird Grinnell that the title of General A. W. Greely’s book is Three Years of Arctic Service. Roosevelt agrees with putting the moose head on the cover of the book and if Grinnell gets short of copy, Roosevelt can give him some writing. Another idea if they are short of copy is for Grinnell and Roosevelt to write a composite article on the distribution of “big game animals of temperate North America.”
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1897-08-03
Virginia Elizabeth Gosnell Merriam informs President Roosevelt that her husband, C. Hart Merriam, cannot quickly finish his manuscript on Mammals of North America as his current salary is not enough for him to hire clerical assistants.
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1909-01-21
President Roosevelt wears his “grab policy” boots to walk from the United States to South America.
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1903-12-20
President Roosevelt stands with one foot on South America and the other foot on North America as he straddles the Panama Canal. Caption: Ready for Panama, Mr. Roosevelt will fulfill all his machinations and the universe will see another Colossus of Rhodes. Dominating the South and the North, he can look across without caring about the right, and give the last cut to the isthmus that is at his feet.
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1903-11-21
President Roosevelt wears a papal crown with dollar signs and holds a globe with a line down the middle. Caption: Pope Roosevelt: What lies to the left of this chalk line belongs to American politics, and what lies to the right of it belongs to American world trade! [After Columbus’ first trip to America, Pope Alexander VI. divided the world through a demarcation line and determined sovereignty in both halves of the world.]
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1903-05
Henry Fairfield Osborn comments on portions of a draft of President Roosevelt’s planned Romanes lecture that he will give when visiting Oxford University after finishing his safari. Osborn corrects some statements that Roosevelt made regarding megafauna and the evolution of animals in North and South America. He also raises some questions about Roosevelt’s statements regarding the development of different races and nationalities.
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1908-12-15
Secretary of State Root speaks to the Third Conference of the American Republics about popular self government and democracy, praising especially the progress that Latin American countries have made. Root emphasizes that this progress has come and must continue to come as a result of international interaction and assistance between the various nations, and that the conference he is now speaking at has further cooperation as its goal. He affirms the United States’s commitment to peace and independence of the various nations, and presents a wish for all the nations of the Americas to work together.
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1906-08-01
Theodore Roosevelt tells Horace G. Knowles that he agrees with his views on both the North American and President Woodrow Wilson’s policies. Roosevelt asks Knowles to give his heartiest regards to Mr. Forbes.
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1915-06-01
Newspaper article arguing in favor of a North American zollverein, a type of customs union, led by the United States.
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1902-10-31
John J. McCook believes that the United States is in a position to “dominate the American continent.” The country’s growing power will help “compel peace” and may even lead to expanded borders under the Roosevelt administration.
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1901-10-16
Secretary of State Seward recounts to the United States Minister to Colombia, Allan A. Burton, the details of an incident in Panama regarding the burial of the United States Consul Alexander McKee. Embarkation of U.S. naval troops for the funeral without prior permission by the president of the state of Panama raised questions of the rights of the U.S. in the region. On review of the facts, Seward concluded that no explanation or guarantees regarding future conduct was warranted by the U.S. government.
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1866-04-30