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President Roosevelt invites Representative Hayes to meet him in Washington, D.C., to go over the matter in Hayes’s letter. The president plans to take the ground that Hayes advocates regarding the Great White Fleet, observing that the Pacific Coast is as much America’s coastline as the Atlantic Coast is.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-09-19
William Allen White presents three plans that will allow him to meet with Theodore Roosevelt while he is on the East Coast.
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1912-02-12
Edwin T. Earl updates Theodore Roosevelt on William H. Taft’s trip to the west coast that did not go well and feels that he is not going to be re-elected as the Republican candidate for the upcoming presidential election. Earl guesses that William Jennings Bryan will be the next president, but expresses his hopes on Roosevelt winning the presidency if he decided to run again.
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1911-10-23
Charles M. Woodbury sends Theodore Roosevelt a framed photograph and biographical sketch of his grandfather, Samuel Woodbury, a pioneer printer. He expresses pride in his family’s history, mentions a past speech he sent, and shares his appreciation for Roosevelt’s book African Game Trails and his family’s love of books and publishing.
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1911-09-07
Retired Rear Admiral Manney outlines the reasons he believes sending the Great White Fleet to the Pacific Ocean is unwise given the tensions between the United States and Japan. Because Japan is not a wealthy nation, Manney believes it will not attack and occupy targets that would be expensive to win and maintain, and that therefore neither the Philippines nor Hawaii are in danger of attack. Rather, Manney describes in detail how the Japanese could gain control of bases from which to attack both the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of the United States, how such attacks would affect the U.S., and how long it would take the fleet to return to the Atlantic as a consequence. Because much more damage can be done to the United States on the Atlantic coast rather than the Pacific, it makes more sense to keep the fleet in the Atlantic, in case of war with Japan.
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1907-07-19
Japanese businessman Kōjirō Matsukata addresses honorary commercial commissioners from the United States Pacific Coast. He expresses the admiration and appreciation that Japan has for the United States, and hopes that the friendship between the two nations can continue. In particular, Matsukata hopes that trade relations between the two countries will improve.
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1908-11-01
Theodore Roosevelt writes to Philip Battell Stewart in response to a letter from Stewart. Roosevelt discusses the development of East versus West America.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1916-05-16