United States. Department of State

Secretary of the Navy Morton writes William Loeb after unsuccessfully trying to reach him by phone, and updates him on the situation with the Russian steamer Lena, which is docked in San Francisco. Morton would like President Roosevelt to state which department should handle the matter, but says that everyone involved currently understands that the State Department is in charge.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-09-13

Second Assistant Secretary of State Adee writes to William Loeb about enclosed correspondence from Panama’s Ambassador, John Barrett, and Panama’s Ambassador to the United States, Jose Domingo de Obaldia. Adee requested guidance from President Roosevelt about differences that have occurred.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-09-02

Baron Takahira sends to Assistant Secretary of State Adee, for the information of the United States government, a copy of a telegram from a Japanese diplomat concerning the Russian warships docked in Shanghai.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-08-26

Secretary of the Navy Morton unsuccessfully tried to telephone William Loeb regarding confusing as to which government department should handle the situation with the Russian cruiser Lena, which is docked at San Francisco. Morton suggests to President Roosevelt that if he deems it proper for the Navy Department to handle it, that the State Department, Department of Commerce and Labor, and Treasury Department be notified.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-09-13

Secretary of State Hay references correspondence from William Emlen Roosevelt and James Alexander Scrymser concerning their request to maintain “exclusive concession of the Central and South American Telegraph Company in Central America.” Hay would be glad to obey the instructions of President Roosevelt if anything further is required from the State Department in this matter.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-08-18

Senator Lodge informs Guy Murchie that he has written to the Secretary of State to recommend Murchie for a position at the Shanghai consulate. Lodge explains that a few years ago the Department of State realized Massachusetts had too many individuals in diplomatic relations and so no new appointments from that state had been given. However, Lodge would like to see Murchie in the position and offers to assist in any way he might.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-07-26

The U.S. Minister to Ecuador, Archibald J. Sampson, asks President Roosevelt to send an autographed photo to him, explaining that the Ecuadorians want to see what he looks like. Sampson also requests a photograph of Edith Roosevelt, explaining he had photos of William and Ida McKinley. He wishes Roosevelt a “triumphant election” in November and asks if Roosevelt’s son Archie received the hammock that he sent to him.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-06-05

John McMackin encloses Archbishop Ireland’s response on the Philippine matter. He also requests State Department assistance for an unnamed woman.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-05-30

List of United States government agencies and what they have spent on advertising in the New York Sun.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-05

Secretary of State Hay returns to President Roosevelt a letter from Nicholas Williams McIvor, noting that nothing the Roosevelt administration does may please McIvor.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-05-05

Secretary of State Hay wrote Moroccan Consul Gummeré about how to handle the request of the Gospel Missionary Union that the government extend protection to Moroccans who rent or lease houses to American missionaries. Hay wrote that the treaty with Morocco did not provide such actions. Hay also instructed Gummeré to do everything possible to assist American missionaries in finding suitable housing and to secure immunity from prosecution and all proper protections for the natives who rent to missionaries.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-05-05

Secretary of State Hay wrote to the President of the Gospel Missionary Union about the organization’s request for the American government to extend protection to Moroccans who rent or lease buildings to American missionaries. Hay wrote that the treaty with Morocco did not provide such actions, but the consul had been instructed to do everything possible to assist American missionaries with housing.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-05-05

Secretary of State John Hay encloses a letter he sent to the president of the Gospel Missionary Union and Hay’s directive to the consul general at Tangier. The consul had been instructed to do everything possible to assist United States missionaries and to protect the natives who rent or lease them property.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-05-07

John Hay sends President Roosevelt a copy of a letter from Henry White.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-05-02

Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt informs H. C. Taylor that he will write to Cyrus Edwin Lothrop. He thinks the USS Yantic can be promised to the Naval Militia of the Lakes if the treaty does not prohibit it. Roosevelt will take the matter to the United States Department of State. He is glad that Taylor shares his views of the naval militia, which should be built up. Roosevelt talked to Secretary of the Navy John Davis Long about having Taylor and William Thomas Sampson test the USS Indiana and Iowa.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1897-05-04

Collection

Charles C. Myers Collection

Creation Date

Unknown

Creator(s)

B.S. Reynolds Co.

Language

English

William N. Tilchin examines the foreign policy views of President Theodore Roosevelt and President Harry S. Truman. Tilchin provides an overview of the major crises and decisions faced by both presidents, and he also looks at the administrations between Roosevelt and Truman and how each president approached the practice of diplomacy. Tilchin notes the importance of four Secretaries of State: John Hay and Elihu Root under Roosevelt and George C. Marshall and Dean Acheson under Truman, and he outlines their core beliefs and how they influenced each president. Tilchin concludes by comparing aspects of Roosevelt’s and Truman’s foreign policies and by asserting that each understood the primacy of power in international affairs.

A photograph of Roosevelt on horseback, without an accompanying caption, supplements the text. A listing of the officers of the Theodore Roosevelt Association along with the members of its executive, finance, and Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace committees is found on page two of the essay.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

This article provides a biography of each of the winners of the 1983 Theodore Roosevelt Distinguished Service Medal. Three paragraphs cover the four winners: Captain Edward L. Beach, Ambassador Philip C. Habib, Harold Lyle Schafer, and Sheila Schafer. The paragraphs provide highlights of the careers of each of the winners. Each of the paragraphs is accompanied by a photograph of the medal recipient(s).

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1984

John A. Gable examines the diplomatic career of Ambassador Philip C. Habib, noting his many prominent positions as a career diplomat with the United States Department of State. Gable also lists many of the civil service awards Habib received for his years of government service prior to his receiving the Theodore Roosevelt Distinguished Service Medal.

Photographs of Edith Derby Williams, who read Habib’s medal citation, and of Habib, accompany the citation.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

This memorandum presents a brief history of the various plans surrounding the matter of the debt settlement of the Dominican Republic. An initial plan was prepared by William J. Salomon & Co., with Speyer & Co. being “cognizant of and participants in the proposed ‘plan’.” This plan was ultimately withdrawn, and a more favorable plan was proposed by Kuhn, Loeb & Co., which was accepted. Following this, Speyer & Co. independently approached the government of the Dominican Republic with a proposal, which was rejected.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-08-14