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President Roosevelt introduces George W. Smalley of the London Times and requests that Attorney General Knox speak with him.
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1902-05-06
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt received Henry White’s letter. He and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt have become fond of White and his wife, Margaret Stuyvesant Rutherford White. Roosevelt wants to visit England to research naval matters. He was amused at George W. Smalley’s comment about his “supposed jingoism,” especially as he wishes “we were more jingo about Cuba and Hawaii.”
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1897-04-30
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt chides Cecil Spring Rice for not replying to his or Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt’s letters and suggests possible reasons why. Roosevelt enjoys his new position, although he will not see much of his family. He is proud of what he accomplished as police commissioner but reached a point where he could not do anything else.
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1897-04-28
Ambassador Reid speculates on the future of correspondent George W. Smalley.
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1905-11-01
Thomas St. John Gaffney congratulates Theodore Roosevelt on his recent proclamation warning government officials to abstain from commenting on international matters in speeches and in writings. Gaffney also discusses Russia and Japan.
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1904-03-21
Theodore Roosevelt writes his sister Anna Roosevelt Cowles about his and Edith’s visit to Washington, D.C. No society in New York compares to his circle of friends in Washington. He has seen a lot of Representative Reed and criticizes a speech by Wolcott. He compliments Secretary of State Richard Olney and says Smalley has no idea how the people of the United States really feel. Senator Lodge made a good speech about the Venezuela matter.
1896-01-26
Henry Cabot Lodge discusses the impact on the Republican and Democratic parties of the debate over the gold vs. silver standard. He also considers the level of support in various regions of the nation for several likely presidential candidates. Lodge responds to Theodore Roosevelt’s critique of Representative Thomas B. Reed for not speaking out firmly enough in support of the gold standard when he cast a vote on legislation dealing with gold bonds. Lodge asks Roosevelt to “straighten out” George W. Smalley, the American correspondent of the London Times and a personal friend and promoter of Roosevelt’s, on the true American sentiment regarding the Monroe Doctrine.
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1895-08-10
Senator Lodge writes Police Commissioner Roosevelt about an article by George W. Smalley. The article indicates that public opinion on Roosevelt’s enforcement of the excise law has shifted in his favor and gives an account of his reply to Senator T. C. O’Sullivan.
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1895-08-11