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Theodore Roosevelt made a speech in Philadelphia advocating for preparedness. In a couple of months, things should develop in Congress regarding readiness for war.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-12-29
Theodore Roosevelt has heard from “good newspaper authorities” that the more often he speaks, the less effective his speeches become. Roosevelt has determined that he should speak as little as possible so as not to dilute the effect of his speeches. Roosevelt has canceled speeches at specific organizations and plans to speak at bigger conferences where representatives from all the organizations who have asked him to speak can be present. He asks S. S. Menken to keep in touch with his son, Ted Roosevelt, and with Willard Straight when he is making plans for Roosevelt to speak.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-12-29
President Roosevelt is glad to hear that his son Archie is having a good time. Roosevelt tells Archie about the activities of Quentin Roosevelt and Ethel Roosevelt, and about their pets Ace and Scamp.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-11-27
President Roosevelt asks Acting Secretary of State Bacon to meet with Charles H. Tweed, of Speyer and Company, and additionally ask him to meet with Jacob H. Hollander in order to discuss the Santo Domingo debt matter. Speyer and Company understood that the matter would not be addressed without their bankers being given an equal opportunity to make proposals. Roosevelt additionally asks Bacon to arrange for Willard Dickerman Straight to go through Siberia on his way to assume his post as Consul-General at Mukden, Manchuria.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-08-13
President Roosevelt tells Richard Harding Davis that he had coincidentally already written to Secretary of State Elihu Root trying to give Williard Dickerman Straight an appointment in China. Roosevelt has forwarded Davis’s letter to Root and believes such an appointment may be able to be arranged.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-05-12
Edwin V. Morgan writes to Secretary of State Root about an incident regarding payment to a Havana hotel keeper. He says that the innkeeper’s account has been settled in full and accuses the person of attempting to swindle him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-06-12
Theodore Roosevelt is amazed that Ethel Roosevelt is now nineteen years old. Things have been quiet at Sagamore Hill and Roosevelt has been kept busy with work. Willard Dickerman Straight has been trying to visit but Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt has avoided him. Edith rode Pineknot, the horse, one day and found his gait distressing so that she could hardly move for two days afterward.
1910-08-14