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Major Mearns and a stream of officials call, and he writes the Kaiser on Speck von Sternberg, a possible Berlin speech, the fleet and China.","significance":1,"location":"Washington, D.C.","location_id":"washington-dc","lat":38.89511,"lon":-77.03637,"tags":["presidency","diplomacy","navy"],"people":["edgar-a-mearns","luke-e-wright","truman-h-newberry","george-von-lengerke-meyer","jonathan-bourne-jr","w-bourke-cockran","william-crozier","peter-augustus-jay","samuel-b-m-young","kaiser-wilhelm-ii","hermann-speck-von-sternberg"]},{"date":"1909-01-03","age":50,"headline":"Sunday with nothing recorded","summary":"The chronology places Roosevelt in Washington but notes no events.","significance":1,"location":"Washington, D.C.","location_id":"washington-dc","lat":38.89511,"lon":-77.03637,"tags":["presidency"],"people":[]},{"date":"1909-01-04","age":50,"headline":"Messages on the Secret Service and Italian relief","summary":"Roosevelt sends Congress a special message defending the Secret Service and another seeking aid for earthquake-stricken Italy, then receives a long line of lawmakers. Taft agrees to put William Loeb in charge of the New York customs house as collector.","significance":2,"location":"Washington, D.C.","location_id":"washington-dc","lat":38.89511,"lon":-77.03637,"tags":["presidency","legislature","diplomacy","navy"],"people":["truman-h-newberry","george-von-lengerke-meyer","robert-bacon","henry-cabot-lodge","william-e-borah","lee-s-overman","oscar-w-underwood","william-s-bennet","george-r-sheldon","joseph-cannon","william-howard-taft","william-loeb"]},{"date":"1909-01-05","age":50,"headline":"A luncheon full of Ethel's friends","summary":"After the Cabinet meets, Roosevelt hosts some 30 at lunch, among them Owen Wister and his family and a daughter of J. P. Morgan, most of them Ethel's society friends. That evening he and Edith dine at the Roots'.","significance":1,"location":"Washington, D.C.","location_id":"washington-dc","lat":38.89511,"lon":-77.03637,"tags":["presidency","society","family"],"people":["george-von-lengerke-meyer","shelby-m-cullom","james-b-reynolds","wilford-b-hoggatt","william-s-sims","owen-wister","ethel-roosevelt-derby","edith-kermit-roosevelt","elihu-root","eugene-hale","garrett"]},{"date":"1909-01-06","age":50,"headline":"Praising Churchill's book, not the man","summary":"Roosevelt sends Congress a message on the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company. China's ambassador, now out of favor at home, dines with him alongside Mrs. Beale and the Lodges, and Roosevelt writes Winston Churchill to praise My African Journey, though he heartily disliked its author.","significance":1,"location":"Washington, D.C.","location_id":"washington-dc","lat":38.89511,"lon":-77.03637,"tags":["presidency","trusts","diplomacy","reading"],"people":["elihu-root","charles-bonaparte","george-von-lengerke-meyer","robert-bacon","henry-cabot-lodge","lee-s-overman","william-dudley-foulke","j-a-stewart","mrs-truxtun-beale","whitelaw-reid","william-howard-taft","william-phillips"]},{"date":"1909-01-07","age":50,"headline":"Franklin and Eleanor at the White House","summary":"Land fraud charges against Senator Tillman go public. Roosevelt holds a reception for 350, Bamie regales Archie Butt with stories of their mother Mittie and Georgia, and Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt are house guests.","significance":2,"location":"White House","location_id":"white-house","lat":38.89764,"lon":-77.03655,"tags":["family","presidency","society"],"people":["benjamin-r-tillman","charles-w-fairbanks","george-von-lengerke-meyer","leslie-m-shaw","eugene-hale","samuel-d-mcenery","augustus-p-gardner","frank-b-kellogg","john-a-mcilhenny","anna-roosevelt-cowles","archibald-butt","martha-bulloch-roosevelt"]},{"date":"1909-01-08","age":50,"headline":"Dancing at Ethel's ball","summary":"Roosevelt works through a Cabinet meeting and visits from senators and Speaker Cannon. That night a ball is given for Ethel, and he and Edith take the floor, his dancing marked by lively little hops.","significance":2,"location":"White House","location_id":"white-house","lat":38.89764,"lon":-77.03655,"tags":["family","celebration","society","navy"],"people":["robert-bacon","james-bryce","lee-s-overman","charles-w-fulton","john-a-mcilhenny","joseph-cannon","herbert-parsons","ethel-roosevelt-derby","edith-kermit-roosevelt","albert-lenoir-key","truman-h-newberry"]},{"date":"1909-01-09","age":50,"headline":"A day of callers","summary":"Roosevelt receives a string of visitors, Cabinet members Meyer and Straus, Senator Lodge, his old Buffalo friend Ansley Wilcox and reformer William Dudley Foulke among them.","significance":1,"location":"Washington, D.C.","location_id":"washington-dc","lat":38.89511,"lon":-77.03637,"tags":["presidency"],"people":["george-von-lengerke-meyer","oscar-straus","chauncey-m-depew","lee-s-overman","henry-cabot-lodge","ansley-wilcox","william-dudley-foulke","vespasian-warner"]},{"date":"1909-01-10","age":50,"headline":"Quentin earns a whipping","summary":"Roosevelt writes Kermit about Ethel's ball and the safari rifles. To Archie he reports that Quentin came home with a cough after crashing through ice, slipping away from school and lying about it, and so got the first real whipping TR ever gave a child.","significance":2,"location":"Washington, D.C.","location_id":"washington-dc","lat":38.89511,"lon":-77.03637,"tags":["family","africa"],"people":["kermit-roosevelt","archibald-roosevelt","quentin-roosevelt","ethel-roosevelt-derby","john-jay-white"]},{"date":"1909-01-11","age":50,"headline":"Conservation Commission report arrives","summary":"The National Conservation Commission hands Roosevelt its three-volume report, and he urges Congress to improve the capital's civic life. He attends a reception for senators at Fairbanks' home and writes Lyman Abbott on Governor Hughes's plan to change how candidates are nominated.","significance":3,"location":"Washington, D.C.","location_id":"washington-dc","lat":38.89511,"lon":-77.03637,"tags":["conservation","presidency","politics"],"people":["george-cortelyou","james-r-garfield","henry-cabot-lodge","francis-e-warren","charles-curtis","oscar-straus","ralph-m-easley","albert-j-hopkins","charles-w-fairbanks","charles-bonaparte","lyman-abbott","charles-evans-hughes"]},{"date":"1909-01-12","age":50,"headline":"Douglas Robinson to testify","summary":"Roosevelt holds a Cabinet meeting and sees senators and congressmen, then is honored at a dinner given by Secretary Wright. He writes his brother-in-law Douglas Robinson, who will be a witness in the libel suits against the World and the Indianapolis News.","significance":1,"location":"Washington, D.C.","location_id":"washington-dc","lat":38.89511,"lon":-77.03637,"tags":["presidency","press","family"],"people":["charles-w-fairbanks","william-e-borah","shelby-m-cullom","herbert-knox-smith","samuel-b-m-young","j-adam-bede","edward-l-vreeland","luke-e-wright","douglas-robinson"]},{"date":"1909-01-13","age":50,"headline":"The ninety-mile ride to Warrenton","summary":"To prove his three-day, 90-mile riding test for officers is fair, Roosevelt leaves at 3 a.m. with his aide Butt, Dr. Rixey and naval surgeon Cary Grayson for Warrenton, Virginia, and back in one day. They push through sleet and reach Washington near 8 p.m., some 17 hours later; the distance was first put at 98 miles and later at 104.","significance":3,"location":"Washington, D.C.","location_id":"washington-dc","lat":38.89511,"lon":-77.03637,"tags":["military","outdoors","presidency","health"],"people":["archibald-butt","cary-t-grayson","presley-m-rixey"]},{"date":"1909-01-14","age":50,"headline":"Labor leaders at the White House","summary":"Roosevelt confers with Newberry on the Navy, meets the American Federation of Labor's executive council, and sees Senator Knox. After a diplomatic dinner he writes Kermit about his long ride and his battles with Congress.","significance":1,"location":"Washington, D.C.","location_id":"washington-dc","lat":38.89511,"lon":-77.03637,"tags":["presidency","labor","navy","family"],"people":["truman-h-newberry","philander-knox","archibald-butt","albert-beveridge","henry-cabot-lodge","robert-j-gamble","edward-l-vreeland","herbert-parsons","f-k-bowers","kermit-roosevelt"]},{"date":"1909-01-15","age":50,"headline":"Admirals talk Navy reform","summary":"Roosevelt hosts a working lunch on reorganizing the Navy Department with Admirals Mahan, Luce and Evans, Captain Sims and others. He also writes a letter of praise for Archie Butt's service record.","significance":2,"location":"Washington, D.C.","location_id":"washington-dc","lat":38.89511,"lon":-77.03637,"tags":["navy","presidency"],"people":["paul-morton","william-h-moody","herbert-l-satterlee","stephen-b-luce","alfred-thayer-mahan","william-m-folger","robley-d-evans","william-sheffield-cowles","alston-g-dayton","william-s-sims","truman-h-newberry","chauncey-m-depew"]},{"date":"1909-01-16","age":50,"headline":"Fighting California's anti-Japanese bills","summary":"Roosevelt confers on the Navy with Senator Hale and receives a stream of callers. He fires off two telegrams to California Governor James Gillett, determined to stop anti-Japanese bills in the legislature, while Archie Butt quietly sorts out an awkward affair involving one diplomat's wife and another envoy.","significance":2,"location":"Washington, D.C.","location_id":"washington-dc","lat":38.89511,"lon":-77.03637,"tags":["presidency","diplomacy","immigration","navy"],"people":["eugene-hale","elihu-root","john-marshall-harlan","william-s-bennet","henry-a-du-pont","william-p-hepburn","ethan-a-hitchcock","frank-s-butterworth","john-gardner-coolidge","archibald-butt","william-howard-taft","james-n-gillett"]},{"date":"1909-01-17","age":50,"headline":"Sunday with nothing recorded","summary":"Roosevelt is in Washington; the chronology lists no events for the day.","significance":1,"location":"Washington, D.C.","location_id":"washington-dc","lat":38.89511,"lon":-77.03637,"tags":["presidency"],"people":[]},{"date":"1909-01-18","age":50,"headline":"Praising British India to missionaries","summary":"On Bamie's 54th birthday, Roosevelt addresses Methodist missionaries in the evening and commends Britain's rule in India. He tells painter Gari Melchers he loves the new portrait, which shows him dressed as he was for his long ride.","significance":2,"location":"Washington, D.C.","location_id":"washington-dc","lat":38.89511,"lon":-77.03637,"tags":["family","religion","foreign-policy","presidency"],"people":["anna-roosevelt-cowles","truman-h-newberry","clarence-d-clark","jonathan-p-dolliver","winthrop-murray-crane","samuel-d-mcenery","john-a-t-hull","lucius-n-littauer","charles-p-taft","gari-melchers"]},{"date":"1909-01-19","age":50,"headline":"Cabinet dinner at Bonaparte's","summary":"Roosevelt holds a Cabinet meeting, sees Congressman Davidson and W. H. Phipps, and attends a Cabinet dinner at Attorney General Bonaparte's.","significance":1,"location":"Washington, D.C.","location_id":"washington-dc","lat":38.89511,"lon":-77.03637,"tags":["presidency","society"],"people":["w-h-phipps","james-h-davidson","charles-bonaparte"]},{"date":"1909-01-20","age":50,"headline":"A Council of Fine Arts and a Nevada forest","summary":"By executive order Roosevelt sets up a national arts council, and Humboldt National Forest in Nevada is established. Knox, Senator Curtis and Mark Sullivan are among his visitors.","significance":2,"location":"Washington, D.C.","location_id":"washington-dc","lat":38.89511,"lon":-77.03637,"tags":["conservation","presidency"],"people":["philander-knox","charles-curtis","w-bourke-cockran","james-w-langley","william-w-cocks","mark-sullivan"]},{"date":"1909-01-21","age":50,"headline":"The Japanese school question","summary":"Roosevelt confers with Senators Flint and Fulton on California's treatment of Japanese schoolchildren, and Moapa National Forest in Nevada is created. He hosts the judicial reception and hears from Bryce that his India speech was well received.","significance":2,"location":"White House","location_id":"white-house","lat":38.89764,"lon":-77.03655,"tags":["immigration","conservation","diplomacy","presidency"],"people":["frank-p-flint","charles-w-fulton","samuel-b-m-young","j-j-mcclure","elihu-root","william-e-borah","albert-beveridge","james-r-garfield","henry-c-corbin","townsend","james-bryce"]},{"date":"1909-01-22","age":50,"headline":"Conservation report goes to Congress","summary":"Roosevelt sends Congress the National Conservation Commission's report with a special message, as the House passes the Navy bill. He enlists Andrew Carnegie and William Kent against California's anti-Japanese bill, seeks backing for ballad collector John Lomax, and stays for the dance after a 30-plus dinner.","significance":3,"location":"White House","location_id":"white-house","lat":38.89764,"lon":-77.03655,"tags":["conservation","immigration","navy","legislature"],"people":["james-d-phelan","samuel-b-m-young","henry-cabot-lodge","herbert-parsons","john-a-t-hull","john-callan-o-laughlin","francis-e-warren","johann-heinrich-von-bernstorff","william-phillips","andrew-carnegie","william-kent","robert-s-woodward"]},{"date":"1909-01-23","age":50,"headline":"Teeth checked before Africa","summary":"Roosevelt meets a California delegation on the Japanese school question, and his essay on national statesmen appears in The Outlook. He tells Kermit he is having his teeth seen to before the safari and asks Bay Lodge to critique his European address.","significance":1,"location":"Washington, D.C.","location_id":"washington-dc","lat":38.89511,"lon":-77.03637,"tags":["immigration","writing","africa","family"],"people":["james-wilson","james-r-garfield","oscar-straus","robert-bacon","albert-beveridge","elmer-j-burkett","james-s-sherman","kermit-roosevelt","george-cabot-lodge"]},{"date":"1909-01-24","age":50,"headline":"Sunday with nothing recorded","summary":"Roosevelt is in Washington; no events are noted for the day.","significance":1,"location":"Washington, D.C.","location_id":"washington-dc","lat":38.89511,"lon":-77.03637,"tags":["presidency"],"people":[]},{"date":"1909-01-25","age":50,"headline":"Edith rules out prize fights at dinner","summary":"Roosevelt sees Fairbanks, Root, Bonaparte and others, plus a group of state dairy and food officials, and takes up the care of orphans in Washington. When boxing comes up at a formal dinner, Edith shuts the topic down, which she thought unfit for the table.","significance":1,"location":"Washington, D.C.","location_id":"washington-dc","lat":38.89511,"lon":-77.03637,"tags":["presidency","family","society"],"people":["charles-w-fairbanks","elihu-root","charles-bonaparte","james-r-garfield","w-bourke-cockran","george-s-nixon","william-w-cocks","reed-smoot","albert-beveridge","edith-kermit-roosevelt"]},{"date":"1909-01-26","age":50,"headline":"Root resigns; Pelican Island grows","summary":"Roosevelt accepts Elihu Root's resignation as Secretary of State, enlarges the Pelican Island bird reservation in Florida, and renames Cleveland National Forest. He sends Governor Gillett legal arguments against California's anti-Japanese bills and speaks at a dinner on the care of dependent children.","significance":3,"location":"Willard Hotel","location_id":"willard-hotel","lat":38.89704,"lon":-77.03241,"tags":["conservation","presidency","immigration","race"],"people":["john-h-bankhead","albert-b-cummins","jonathan-p-dolliver","henry-cabot-lodge","chauncey-m-depew","herbert-knox-smith","james-d-phelan","william-s-bennet","robert-bacon","albert-beveridge","elihu-root","james-n-gillett"]},{"date":"1909-01-27","age":50,"headline":"Bacon takes over at State","summary":"Robert Bacon replaces Elihu Root at the State Department; Root heads to the Senate in Platt's seat, and John Callan O'Laughlin becomes assistant secretary. Roosevelt names a commission to reorganize the Navy, Mahan among its members, and writes Taft denying he ever demanded the Cabinet be kept intact.","significance":2,"location":"Washington, D.C.","location_id":"washington-dc","lat":38.89511,"lon":-77.03637,"tags":["presidency","navy","diplomacy","politics"],"people":["robert-bacon","elihu-root","john-callan-o-laughlin","thomas-c-platt","alfred-thayer-mahan","truman-h-newberry","henry-cabot-lodge","robert-j-gamble","nelson-aldrich","albert-beveridge","isaac-stephenson","c-bascom-slemp"]},{"date":"1909-01-28","age":50,"headline":"Cuba handed back to Cubans","summary":"Government of Cuba returns to Cuban hands, and Pecos National Forest in New Mexico is created. Roosevelt lunches with the Meyers, Alice and Mrs. Frederick Vanderbilt, dines with the Supreme Court, and writes Lodge disputing much in the newly published Letters of John Hay.","significance":3,"location":"White House","location_id":"white-house","lat":38.89764,"lon":-77.03655,"tags":["foreign-policy","conservation","presidency","friendship"],"people":["robert-bacon","oscar-straus","james-s-sherman","jonathan-p-dolliver","reed-smoot","william-e-borah","lebbeus-r-wilfley","frank-b-kellogg","james-c-mcreynolds","james-s-clarkson","george-von-lengerke-meyer","alice-roosevelt-longworth"]},{"date":"1909-01-29","age":50,"headline":"Callers from La Follette to Hoggatt","summary":"After the Cabinet meets, Roosevelt receives Senators La Follette and Borah, editor Albert Shaw and Alaska Governor Hoggatt, among others.","significance":1,"location":"Washington, D.C.","location_id":"washington-dc","lat":38.89511,"lon":-77.03637,"tags":["presidency"],"people":["robert-m-la-follette","william-e-borah","herbert-parsons","beekman-winthrop","albert-shaw","wilford-b-hoggatt"]},{"date":"1909-01-30","age":50,"headline":"Gridiron dinner, poker at Butt's","summary":"Roosevelt sees Woodruff, Cortelyou, Pinchot and others and lunches with family, the Douglas Robinsons and George Sheldon. He spends the evening at the Gridiron Club dinner while Archie Butt hosts Alice and 18 others for poker.","significance":1,"location":"Washington, D.C.","location_id":"washington-dc","lat":38.89511,"lon":-77.03637,"tags":["presidency","family","society","press"],"people":["timothy-l-woodruff","truman-h-newberry","george-cortelyou","robert-bacon","jonathan-p-dolliver","george-r-sheldon","gifford-pinchot","caspar-whitney","douglas-robinson","corinne-roosevelt-robinson","archibald-butt","alice-roosevelt-longworth"]},{"date":"1909-01-31","age":50,"headline":"Packing up the White House","summary":"As the household packs and Roosevelt hands out souvenirs, he writes Ted that he has worked to avoid an outright break with Congress and wires the AP that no reporters go to Africa. His essay \"A Tribute to Lincoln\" appears in the Review of Reviews, and Edith drops her wish to keep a White House sofa after a leaked request stirs a press outcry.","significance":2,"location":"White House","location_id":"white-house","lat":38.89764,"lon":-77.03655,"tags":["presidency","family","press","conservation"],"people":["theodore-roosevelt-jr","whitelaw-reid","melville-e-stone","caspar-whitney","edith-kermit-roosevelt","joseph-cannon","william-howard-taft"]},{"date":"1909-02-01","age":50,"headline":"Stopping by Holy Cross Academy","summary":"Roosevelt sees Bacon, Pinchot, Beveridge and other callers, stops in at Holy Cross Academy, and Prescott National Forest in Arizona is created. He and Edith dine with the Lodges, and he writes Lawrence Abbott about Africa.","significance":1,"location":"Holy Cross Academy","location_id":"holy-cross-academy-dc","lat":38.89511,"lon":-77.03637,"tags":["presidency","conservation","africa"],"people":["robert-bacon","shelby-m-cullom","luke-e-wright","francis-e-warren","albert-beveridge","robert-j-gamble","gifford-pinchot","joseph-h-kibbey","charles-curtis","edith-kermit-roosevelt","henry-cabot-lodge","lawrence-abbott"]},{"date":"1909-02-02","age":50,"headline":"Dinner at the Newberrys'","summary":"Roosevelt and Edith dine at Navy Secretary Newberry's. He writes Senator Aldrich on the Brownsville resolution and Albert Shaw about a postmastership in Fremont.","significance":1,"location":"Washington, D.C.","location_id":"washington-dc","lat":38.89511,"lon":-77.03637,"tags":["presidency","race","society"],"people":["edith-kermit-roosevelt","truman-h-newberry","nelson-aldrich","albert-shaw"]},{"date":"1909-02-03","age":50,"headline":"Hawaiian Islands bird refuge created","summary":"Roosevelt sets aside the Hawaiian Islands Bird Reservation, a vast refuge for seabirds. A crowd of senators, editors and officials call, and he is troubled by the Nevada legislature's stance on a measure the record leaves unnamed.","significance":3,"location":"Washington, D.C.","location_id":"washington-dc","lat":38.89511,"lon":-77.03637,"tags":["conservation","natural-history","presidency"],"people":["robert-bacon","charles-bonaparte","william-e-borah","john-marshall-harlan","moses-e-clapp","george-s-nixon","francis-g-newlands","robert-m-la-follette","john-callan-o-laughlin","charles-e-magoon","franklin-k-lane","walter-hines-page"]},{"date":"1909-02-04","age":50,"headline":"Up to his ears in work","summary":"Roosevelt tells Selous he is buried in the last of his presidential work, wires Governor Gillett that California's anti-Japanese school bill must fail, and informs cousin William Roosevelt that on March 4 he will ride public transit like any private citizen.","significance":1,"location":"Washington, D.C.","location_id":"washington-dc","lat":38.89511,"lon":-77.03637,"tags":["presidency","immigration","africa","family"],"people":["truman-h-newberry","james-r-garfield","george-s-nixon","albert-beveridge","julius-c-burrows","isaac-stephenson","richard-bartholdt","john-j-esch","herbert-knox-smith","charles-p-neill","augustus-p-gardner","f-k-bowers"]},{"date":"1909-02-05","age":50,"headline":"Vetoing the census bill","summary":"Roosevelt vetoes the census bill. Indian Commissioner Leupp, Pinchot and Representative Sulzer are among the day's visitors, and he later meets with Bacon, Cummins and others.","significance":2,"location":"Washington, D.C.","location_id":"washington-dc","lat":38.89511,"lon":-77.03637,"tags":["presidency","legislature","civil-service"],"people":["francis-e-leupp","gifford-pinchot","william-sulzer","william-loeb","herbert-l-satterlee","robert-bacon","jonathan-bourne-jr","albert-b-cummins","endicott-peabody"]},{"date":"1909-02-06","age":50,"headline":"Alice slips off from Ethel's dance","summary":"At a White House dance, Alice sneaks away to Archie Butt's house and throws a dinner party of her own. Roosevelt defends his census veto, praises Governor Gillett's handling of the Japanese school fight while grumbling about Senator Perkins, and wires California's assembly speaker.","significance":1,"location":"White House","location_id":"white-house","lat":38.89764,"lon":-77.03655,"tags":["family","society","immigration","presidency"],"people":["truman-h-newberry","george-cortelyou","frank-p-flint","chauncey-m-depew","william-h-moody","franklin-k-lane","major-slocum","alice-roosevelt-longworth","archibald-butt","elbert-francis-baldwin","james-n-gillett","george-c-perkins"]},{"date":"1909-02-07","age":50,"headline":"Selous gets a second white hunter","summary":"Roosevelt writes Selous that he has cabled R. J. Cunninghame, the safari's professional hunter, to engage a second man. Other letters go to Secretary Wright about the Brownsville bill and Arthur Lee on his closing weeks in office.","significance":1,"location":"Washington, D.C.","location_id":"washington-dc","lat":38.89511,"lon":-77.03637,"tags":["africa","hunting","presidency"],"people":["frederick-selous","r-j-cuninghame","luke-e-wright","arthur-lee"]},{"date":"1909-02-08","age":50,"headline":"Lunch with Henry Adams","summary":"Roosevelt confers with Bacon, O'Laughlin, Franklin Lane and two California lawmakers on the Japanese school question, and Calaveras Bigtree National Forest is declared to protect California's giant sequoias. He lunches with Henry Adams and writes Knox, Taft's coming Secretary of State, on foreign policy.","significance":2,"location":"Washington, D.C.","location_id":"washington-dc","lat":38.89511,"lon":-77.03637,"tags":["immigration","conservation","foreign-policy","friendship"],"people":["robert-bacon","john-callan-o-laughlin","julius-kahn","frank-p-flint","franklin-k-lane","henry-adams","shelby-m-cullom","robert-m-la-follette","stephen-b-elkins","herbert-parsons","sloan-simpson","beekman-winthrop"]},{"date":"1909-02-09","age":50,"headline":"Country Life report to Congress","summary":"Roosevelt sends Congress the Country Life Commission's report on rural America, sees Speaker Cannon, Pinchot and Lodge, and dines with Edith at Secretary Garfield's.","significance":2,"location":"Washington, D.C.","location_id":"washington-dc","lat":38.89511,"lon":-77.03637,"tags":["conservation","presidency","legislature"],"people":["joseph-cannon","john-barrett","james-b-mccreary","gifford-pinchot","henry-cabot-lodge","edith-kermit-roosevelt","james-r-garfield","robert-l-owen"]},{"date":"1909-02-10","age":50,"headline":"California backs down; four forests added","summary":"Roosevelt congratulates Governor Gillett after the California Assembly defeats its anti-Japanese bill. Tonto, Marquette, Nevada and Dixie National Forests are created, and he tells George Turner the fleet he built now ranks behind only Britain's.","significance":2,"location":"Washington, D.C.","location_id":"washington-dc","lat":38.89511,"lon":-77.03637,"tags":["conservation","immigration","navy","labor"],"people":["robert-bacon","john-callan-o-laughlin","william-m-calder","augustus-p-gardner","ernest-f-acheson","william-w-cocks","powell-clayton","henry-l-stimson","joseph-pulitzer","george-turner","james-n-gillett"]},{"date":"1909-02-11","age":50,"headline":"Off to Kentucky for Lincoln","summary":"After talking New Mexico statehood with Governor Curry and creating Michigan National Forest, Roosevelt leaves Washington at 11 a.m. for Kentucky with Edith, Ethel, Secretary Wright, Loeb and Dr. Rixey. He reads the whole way, with stops at Baltimore, Harrisburg and Altoona.","significance":1,"location":"Washington, D.C.","location_id":"washington-dc","lat":38.89511,"lon":-77.03637,"tags":["travel","reading","conservation","presidency"],"people":["george-curry","edith-kermit-roosevelt","ethel-roosevelt-derby","luke-e-wright","william-loeb","presley-m-rixey"]},{"date":"1909-02-12","age":50,"headline":"Lincoln's centennial in Kentucky","summary":"On the 100th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth, Roosevelt speaks in Kentucky and sets the cornerstone for a memorial on the farm where Lincoln was born. Alice celebrates turning 25 far away in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where Nick is giving a speech.","significance":3,"location":"Hodgenville","location_id":"hodgenville-ky","lat":37.57395,"lon":-85.73996,"tags":["presidency","family","celebration","travel"],"people":["abraham-lincoln","alice-roosevelt-longworth","nicholas-longworth"]},{"date":"1909-02-13","age":50,"headline":"Back to Washington; Edith a little sad","summary":"Roosevelt returns to Washington as Klamath and a Minnesota national forest are created. He writes Ted about the California school fight and his Lincoln speech, and Stimson about indicting Pulitzer, while Edith confides to Aunt Lizzie that she is a bit sad to leave the White House.","significance":1,"location":"Washington, D.C.","location_id":"washington-dc","lat":38.89511,"lon":-77.03637,"tags":["presidency","family","conservation","press"],"people":["theodore-roosevelt-jr","henry-l-stimson","joseph-pulitzer","truman-h-newberry","a-h-hopping","william-nelson-cromwell","henry-t-rainey","william-howard-taft","edith-kermit-roosevelt","aunt-lizzie"]},{"date":"1909-02-14","age":50,"headline":"Sunday with nothing recorded","summary":"Roosevelt is in Washington; the chronology lists no events.","significance":1,"location":"Washington, D.C.","location_id":"washington-dc","lat":38.89511,"lon":-77.03637,"tags":["presidency"],"people":[]},{"date":"1909-02-15","age":50,"headline":"Burning the \"mewing cat\" portrait","summary":"Roosevelt sees Bacon, Knox, Aldrich and others, and several national forests in New Mexico and the Dakotas are created, Black Hills among them. Edith has Archie Butt burn a portrait the family mocked as the \"mewing cat\" and smash all the chipped presidential china, and TR goes to a church reception at Grace Reformed.","significance":2,"location":"White House","location_id":"white-house","lat":38.89764,"lon":-77.03655,"tags":["family","conservation","religion","presidency"],"people":["robert-bacon","philander-knox","nelson-aldrich","frank-p-flint","moses-e-clapp","moses-p-kinkaid","clarence-r-edwards","edith-kermit-roosevelt","archibald-butt","cornelius-ton","harry-h-johnston"]},{"date":"1909-02-16","age":50,"headline":"Tafts back from Panama; lunch with the safari team","summary":"The Tafts return from Panama, and Roosevelt confers with the President-elect. He lunches with members of his African expedition, sees Justice Holmes and Hamlin Garland, an Alaska forest is created, and he praises Garfield and Pinchot for their conservation work in letters meant as a foreword to their book.","significance":2,"location":"Washington, D.C.","location_id":"washington-dc","lat":38.89511,"lon":-77.03637,"tags":["conservation","africa","presidency","panama-canal"],"people":["william-howard-taft","oliver-wendell-holmes-jr","nelson-aldrich","joseph-m-dixon","porter-j-mccumber","julius-kahn","william-e-borah","hamlin-garland","adolph-lewisohn","james-wilson","james-r-garfield","gifford-pinchot"]},{"date":"1909-02-17","age":50,"headline":"Taft's Panama report goes to Congress","summary":"On Alice and Nick's third wedding anniversary, Roosevelt meets Taft and sends Capitol Hill Taft's findings from his canal inspection. Colonel Goethals is among his callers.","significance":1,"location":"Washington, D.C.","location_id":"washington-dc","lat":38.89511,"lon":-77.03637,"tags":["panama-canal","family","presidency"],"people":["alice-roosevelt-longworth","nicholas-longworth","william-howard-taft","truman-h-newberry","luke-e-wright","samuel-h-piles","moses-e-clapp","elmer-j-burkett","lucius-n-littauer","george-w-goethals","franklin-k-lane","frank-b-kellogg"]},{"date":"1909-02-18","age":50,"headline":"North American Conservation Conference opens","summary":"Roosevelt addresses the North American Conservation Conference, gathered at the White House to weigh the continent's natural resources, with Pinchot, Bacon and Garfield as the U.S. commissioners. The evening brings a reception and the Army and Navy dinner, and General Wood stays the night.","significance":3,"location":"White House","location_id":"white-house","lat":38.89764,"lon":-77.03655,"tags":["conservation","diplomacy","presidency","military"],"people":["gifford-pinchot","robert-bacon","james-r-garfield","henry-cabot-lodge","albert-b-cummins","george-e-foss","william-w-cocks","john-callan-o-laughlin","e-j-baldwin","walter-f-willcox","robert-watchorn","william-h-andrews"]},{"date":"1909-02-19","age":50,"headline":"Corinne's gift: the Pigskin Library","summary":"As the conservation conference goes on, Secretary Bacon invites 45 nations to a world conservation meeting at The Hague, a plan that died after Roosevelt left office. TR thanks Corinne for the Pigskin Library, a set of his favorite books bound in tough pigskin for the safari, and trades thoughts on Jefferson and Hamilton with William Allen White.","significance":2,"location":"White House","location_id":"white-house","lat":38.89764,"lon":-77.03655,"tags":["conservation","diplomacy","reading","family"],"people":["robert-bacon","shelby-m-cullom","gifford-pinchot","william-austin-wadsworth","henri-s-beland","paul-morton","merrill-e-gates","patrick-j-ryan","corinne-roosevelt-robinson","eugene-hale","william-allen-white","dequerado"]},{"date":"1909-02-20","age":50,"headline":"Starting work an hour earlier","summary":"With the conservation conference still meeting, Roosevelt begins reaching his desk at 9 a.m., an hour earlier than before, and drops his morning walk. Toiyabe National Forest in Nevada is created; he lunches with Wright and Newberry and ends the day at a reception at Senator Depew's.","significance":1,"location":"Washington, D.C.","location_id":"washington-dc","lat":38.89511,"lon":-77.03637,"tags":["conservation","presidency"],"people":["luke-e-wright","truman-h-newberry","herbert-knox-smith","frank-steinhart","edward-a-moseley","knapp","nelson-aldrich","albert-b-cummins","henry-cabot-lodge","reed-smoot","william-p-hepburn","augustus-p-gardner"]},{"date":"1909-02-21","age":50,"headline":"Corinne's son Stewart dies","summary":"Corinne's youngest boy, 21-year-old Stewart Robinson, falls to his death from a Harvard window, and Corinne is shattered. Roosevelt wires condolences to her and Douglas, then boards the Mayflower with Edith and Alice for Hampton Roads.","significance":3,"location":"Washington, D.C.","location_id":"washington-dc","lat":38.89511,"lon":-77.03637,"tags":["family","grief","death","navy"],"people":["stewart-douglas-robinson","corinne-roosevelt-robinson","douglas-robinson","edith-kermit-roosevelt","alice-roosevelt-longworth"]},{"date":"1909-02-22","age":50,"headline":"The Great White Fleet comes home","summary":"Sixteen months after it sailed, the Great White Fleet steams back into Hampton Roads, and Roosevelt reviews it from the Mayflower's deck as some 2,000 small boats look on. He later judged the voyage his greatest service to peace. In Washington the conservation conference closes with a call for an international meeting.","significance":4,"location":"Hampton Roads","location_id":"hampton-roads-va","lat":36.95076,"lon":-76.41142,"tags":["navy","presidency","foreign-policy","conservation"],"people":[]},{"date":"1909-02-23","age":50,"headline":"Lining up the Outlook job","summary":"After the Cabinet meets, Datil and Chugach National Forests are created and Roosevelt leaves that evening for New York. He writes Lawrence Abbott about the Outlook editorship he takes up March 5, and Taft about a push to keep Fowler as port collector, a job Taft had promised Loeb.","significance":1,"location":"Washington, D.C.","location_id":"washington-dc","lat":38.89511,"lon":-77.03637,"tags":["writing","conservation","presidency","politics"],"people":["jeremiah-w-jenks","charles-curtis","isaac-stephenson","frank-p-flint","james-c-mclaughlin","william-m-calder","foster","lawrence-abbott","william-howard-taft","fowler","william-loeb","james-j-walsh"]},{"date":"1909-02-24","age":50,"headline":"Burying young Stewart Robinson","summary":"In New York, Roosevelt, Edith, Ted and Kermit attend the funeral of Corinne's son Stewart Robinson, and TR heads back to Washington. He writes Pinchot in praise of Interior Secretary Garfield.","significance":2,"location":"New York City","location_id":"new-york-ny","lat":40.71427,"lon":-74.00597,"tags":["family","grief","conservation"],"people":["stewart-douglas-robinson","edith-kermit-roosevelt","theodore-roosevelt-jr","kermit-roosevelt","gifford-pinchot","james-r-garfield"]},{"date":"1909-02-25","age":50,"headline":"Seventeen bird refuges in one day","summary":"Roosevelt creates 17 bird reservations across the West, most of them on new irrigation reservoirs, plus Modoc, Ozark and California National Forests. The Naval Commission's report goes to Congress, and he writes Jusserand about John Lomax's cowboy ballads and denies the stories about his drinking.","significance":3,"location":"Washington, D.C.","location_id":"washington-dc","lat":38.89511,"lon":-77.03637,"tags":["conservation","natural-history","navy","presidency"],"people":["charles-bonaparte","luke-e-wright","william-h-moody","george-w-goethals","black","john-f-dryden","simon-guggenheim","richard-wainwright","jean-jules-jusserand","john-a-lomax","william-raines","joseph-cannon"]},{"date":"1909-02-26","age":50,"headline":"Maxim demonstrates a silent rifle","summary":"Roosevelt sends Congress the North American Conservation Conference report. At a lunch for Admiral Sperry, inventor Hiram Percy Maxim shows off his new noiseless rifle. Edith writes Kermit that Corinne's grief is her own.","significance":2,"location":"Washington, D.C.","location_id":"washington-dc","lat":38.89511,"lon":-77.03637,"tags":["conservation","navy","family","grief"],"people":["charles-s-sperry","hiram-percy-maxim","william-crozier","richard-wainwright","william-i-buchanan","paul-morton","w-bourke-cockran","coudrey","frank-p-flint","philander-knox","andrew-carnegie","elihu-root"]},{"date":"1909-02-27","age":50,"headline":"Where to shoot an elephant","summary":"Seth Bullock, Garfield and Pinchot are among a crowd of callers. Roosevelt proclaims Arkansas National Forest, the Fire Island game preserve in Alaska and seven bird reservations from the Bering Sea to Puerto Rico, and asks Carl Akeley where to aim at an elephant's head.","significance":3,"location":"Washington, D.C.","location_id":"washington-dc","lat":38.89511,"lon":-77.03637,"tags":["conservation","natural-history","hunting","africa"],"people":["seth-bullock","james-r-garfield","luke-e-wright","john-marshall-harlan","gifford-pinchot","moses-e-clapp","chauncey-m-depew","robert-m-la-follette","william-p-hepburn","j-adam-bede","winthrop-murray-crane","jonathan-bourne-jr"]},{"date":"1909-02-28","age":50,"headline":"The White House emptied","summary":"Every Roosevelt belonging is now out of the White House, and Edith makes sure the rooms are spotless. Roosevelt makes plain he means to step aside fully, with no wish to cling to past power.","significance":2,"location":"White House","location_id":"white-house","lat":38.89764,"lon":-77.03655,"tags":["presidency","family"],"people":["edith-kermit-roosevelt"]},{"date":"1909-03-01","age":50,"headline":"Farewell lunch for the Tennis Cabinet","summary":"Fortified by his usual eggs and rolls, with saccharin in the coffee, Roosevelt gives a farewell luncheon for 31 friends of his \"tennis cabinet,\" some of them in tears, who present him with a bronze cougar by Alexander Phimister Proctor. He bids Congress goodbye, and he and Edith go on to teas and a dinner at Secretary Bacon's.","significance":3,"location":"White House","location_id":"white-house","lat":38.89764,"lon":-77.03655,"tags":["friendship","presidency","celebration","family"],"people":["william-sewall","seth-bullock","william-h-moody","robert-bacon","truman-h-newberry","william-loeb","herbert-l-satterlee","francis-e-leupp","charles-p-neill","john-c-rose","henry-l-stimson","gifford-pinchot"]},{"date":"1909-03-02","age":50,"headline":"Final Cabinet meeting and a burst of forests","summary":"Roosevelt holds his last Cabinet meeting and greets Haiti's new minister at a full diplomatic reception. In a final sweep he proclaims Mount Olympus National Monument, thirteen national forests from Shasta to Sequoia, and the Bogoslof bird refuge in Alaska, then hosts 50 close friends and dines at the Strauses'.","significance":4,"location":"White House","location_id":"white-house","lat":38.89764,"lon":-77.03655,"tags":["conservation","presidency","diplomacy","friendship"],"people":["oscar-straus","gifford-pinchot","paul-morton"]},{"date":"1909-03-03","age":50,"headline":"Last night in the White House","summary":"The Tafts dine and stay overnight at the White House, a meal Taft later called \"that funeral\"; only Roosevelt seemed cheerful. He leaves Taft a parting warning never to split the battleship fleet between the oceans before the canal is done, and writes final notes of praise for Archie Butt, Garfield and Pinchot.","significance":3,"location":"White House","location_id":"white-house","lat":38.89764,"lon":-77.03655,"tags":["presidency","navy","family","friendship"],"people":["william-howard-taft","helen-herron-taft","anna-roosevelt-cowles","william-sheffield-cowles","alice-roosevelt-longworth","nicholas-longworth","isabella-hagner","elihu-root","mabel-boardman","archibald-butt","alfred-thayer-mahan","luke-e-wright"]},{"date":"1909-03-04","age":50,"headline":"Taft sworn in; home to Sagamore Hill","summary":"A winter storm drives the inauguration indoors, and William Howard Taft takes the oath as the 27th President in the Senate Chamber. Skipping the customary ride back to the White House, Roosevelt and Edith head straight to Union Station with New York Republicans, bands playing \"Auld Lang Syne,\" and return to Sagamore Hill. The National Bison Range is created.","significance":4,"location":"Sagamore Hill","location_id":"sagamore-hill","lat":40.88558,"lon":-73.50107,"tags":["presidency","conservation","family","politics"],"people":["william-howard-taft","edith-kermit-roosevelt"]},{"date":"1909-03-05","age":50,"headline":"Contributing editor at The Outlook","summary":"His first full day as a private citizen, Roosevelt officially joins The Outlook as an editor, contracted for twelve articles a year at $1,000 each.","significance":2,"location":"Sagamore Hill","location_id":"sagamore-hill","lat":40.88558,"lon":-73.50107,"tags":["writing","press","business"],"people":[]},{"date":"1909-03-06","age":50,"headline":"Why he backs The Outlook","summary":"Roosevelt's essay explaining why he believes in the kind of journalism The Outlook stands for appears in the magazine.","significance":1,"location":"Sagamore Hill","location_id":"sagamore-hill","lat":40.88558,"lon":-73.50107,"tags":["writing","press"],"people":[]},{"date":"1909-03-07","age":50,"headline":"Not missing the presidency","summary":"Writing to Archie, Roosevelt guesses Washington was sorry to see the family leave. He does not miss the White House or the office.","significance":1,"location":"Sagamore Hill","location_id":"sagamore-hill","lat":40.88558,"lon":-73.50107,"tags":["family","presidency"],"people":["archibald-roosevelt"]},{"date":"1909-03-08","age":50,"headline":"Woodland walks with Edith","summary":"Roosevelt writes Lodge about rumors that Taft may remove Henry White as ambassador in Paris, and about the African trip ahead. He and Edith enjoy walks together in the Sagamore woods.","significance":1,"location":"Sagamore Hill","location_id":"sagamore-hill","lat":40.88558,"lon":-73.50107,"tags":["family","outdoors","diplomacy"],"people":["henry-cabot-lodge","henry-white","william-howard-taft","edith-kermit-roosevelt"]},{"date":"1909-03-09","age":50,"headline":"Snow and a blazing fire","summary":"Dictating by a roaring fire in the North Room with snow outside, Roosevelt tells Bamie his homecoming was a happy one and that Edith has recovered from readying the White House for the Tafts.","significance":1,"location":"Sagamore Hill","location_id":"sagamore-hill","lat":40.88558,"lon":-73.50107,"tags":["family"],"people":["anna-roosevelt-cowles","edith-kermit-roosevelt"]},{"date":"1909-03-10","age":50,"headline":"First day at the Outlook office","summary":"Roosevelt reports to The Outlook at 287 Fourth Avenue in New York, sets up his office, and at an editorial meeting proposes a piece on the government's case against the Sugar Trust. He writes Cecil Spring-Rice that he has had a great time as President.","significance":2,"location":"The Outlook","location_id":"the-outlook","lat":41.10245,"lon":-72.3649,"tags":["writing","press","trusts","friendship"],"people":["theodore-douglas-robinson","cecil-spring-rice"]},{"date":"1909-03-11","age":50,"headline":"Henry Adams writes Edith","summary":"Henry Adams writes Edith explaining why he could not bid her goodbye in person.","significance":1,"location":"Sagamore Hill","location_id":"sagamore-hill","lat":40.88558,"lon":-73.50107,"tags":["family","friendship"],"people":["henry-adams","edith-kermit-roosevelt"]},{"date":"1909-03-12","age":50,"headline":"Oyster Bay welcomes them home","summary":"The people of Oyster Bay hold a reception for Roosevelt and Edith.","significance":1,"location":"Sagamore Hill","location_id":"sagamore-hill","lat":40.88558,"lon":-73.50107,"tags":["celebration","family"],"people":["edith-kermit-roosevelt"]},{"date":"1909-03-13","age":50,"headline":"Breakfast with Robert Collier","summary":"Roosevelt goes into New York for a breakfast Robert Collier gives in his honor. Robert La Follette praises him in his weekly magazine, and an Outlook piece by TR drawing on judicial experience appears.","significance":1,"location":"New York City","location_id":"new-york-ny","lat":40.71427,"lon":-74.00597,"tags":["writing","press","friendship"],"people":["robert-j-collier","robert-m-la-follette"]},{"date":"1909-03-14","age":50,"headline":"A guest named Von Steiner","summary":"The Sagamore Hill guest book records a visit from Von Steiner.","significance":1,"location":"Sagamore Hill","location_id":"sagamore-hill","lat":40.88558,"lon":-73.50107,"tags":["family"],"people":["von-steiner"]},{"date":"1909-03-15","age":50,"headline":"Carrie Louise Munn signs the guest book","summary":"Carrie Louise Munn is recorded as a guest at Sagamore Hill.","significance":1,"location":"Sagamore Hill","location_id":"sagamore-hill","lat":40.88558,"lon":-73.50107,"tags":["family"],"people":["carrie-louise-munn"]},{"date":"1909-03-16","age":50,"headline":"Mail to Nairobi, then Khartoum","summary":"Roosevelt writes Arthur Lee that he looks forward to seeing him in England in 1910, and gives his forwarding addresses for the long trip: Nairobi until November, then Khartoum.","significance":1,"location":"Sagamore Hill","location_id":"sagamore-hill","lat":40.88558,"lon":-73.50107,"tags":["africa","friendship","travel"],"people":["arthur-lee"]},{"date":"1909-03-17","age":50,"headline":"At Matinecock Lodge","summary":"Roosevelt attends a meeting of Matinecock Lodge, his Masonic lodge in Oyster Bay.","significance":1,"location":"Sagamore Hill","location_id":"sagamore-hill","lat":40.88558,"lon":-73.50107,"tags":["society"],"people":[]},{"date":"1909-03-18","age":50,"headline":"A new Roosevelt baby","summary":"Franklin and Eleanor's son Franklin Jr. is born. Roosevelt receives the Nassau County delegation that attended the inauguration and writes Charles Amidor about flaws in the courts.","significance":1,"location":"Sagamore Hill","location_id":"sagamore-hill","lat":40.88558,"lon":-73.50107,"tags":["family","politics"],"people":["franklin-d-roosevelt-jr","franklin-d-roosevelt","eleanor-roosevelt","charles-f-amidon"]},{"date":"1909-03-19","age":50,"headline":"At home, nothing recorded","summary":"Roosevelt is at Sagamore Hill; no events are noted.","significance":1,"location":"Sagamore Hill","location_id":"sagamore-hill","lat":40.88558,"lon":-73.50107,"tags":["family"],"people":[]},{"date":"1909-03-20","age":50,"headline":"Where he parts ways with socialists","summary":"Alice visits Sagamore Hill, and The Outlook prints Roosevelt's essay on the points where he cannot work with socialists.","significance":1,"location":"Sagamore Hill","location_id":"sagamore-hill","lat":40.88558,"lon":-73.50107,"tags":["writing","politics","family"],"people":["alice-roosevelt-longworth"]},{"date":"1909-03-21","age":50,"headline":"Family gathering","summary":"The family gathers at Sagamore Hill for a reunion before Roosevelt leaves for Africa.","significance":1,"location":"Sagamore Hill","location_id":"sagamore-hill","lat":40.88558,"lon":-73.50107,"tags":["family"],"people":[]},{"date":"1909-03-22","age":50,"headline":"Inspecting the Hamburg","summary":"In New York, Roosevelt visits Mame Ledwith, his children's old nurse, and the Theodore Douglas Robinsons, then crosses to Hoboken to look over the S.S. 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Edith, who thinks him too old for the venture, spends the rest of the day walking the Sagamore woods.","significance":4,"location":"Hoboken","location_id":"hoboken-nj","lat":40.74399,"lon":-74.03236,"tags":["africa","travel","family","writing"],"people":["kermit-roosevelt","william-howard-taft","edith-kermit-roosevelt"]},{"date":"1909-03-24","age":50,"headline":"At sea","summary":"Roosevelt is aboard the Hamburg bound for Europe; nothing more is recorded.","significance":1,"location":"At sea","location_id":"at-sea","lat":null,"lon":null,"tags":["travel","africa"],"people":[]},{"date":"1909-03-25","age":50,"headline":"Shipboard company","summary":"On the crossing, Roosevelt spends time with fellow passengers Emily Putnam and Ruth Dana Draper.","significance":1,"location":"At sea","location_id":"at-sea","lat":null,"lon":null,"tags":["travel"],"people":["ruth-draper","emily-james-putnam"]},{"date":"1909-03-26","age":50,"headline":"Homesick for Edith","summary":"Roosevelt thanks Corinne for the note she handed him at the pier, says he was touched by how many acquaintances came to see him off, and admits he is homesick for Edith.","significance":1,"location":"At sea","location_id":"at-sea","lat":null,"lon":null,"tags":["family","travel"],"people":["corinne-roosevelt-robinson","edith-kermit-roosevelt"]},{"date":"1909-03-27","age":50,"headline":"Two Outlook pieces in print","summary":"The Outlook runs two Roosevelt essays, one on where he can work with socialists and one on his scientific expedition. 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Another African Game Trails installment appears.","significance":1,"location":"Londiani","location_id":"londiani-kenya","lat":-0.16552,"lon":35.59359,"tags":["africa","travel","writing"],"people":["lord-delamere"]},{"date":"1909-12-01","age":51,"headline":"Guest of Lord Delamere","summary":"Roosevelt settles in with Lord Delamere at his Soysambu ranch, farmland where the Mau escarpment begins, and camps in the forested foothills.","significance":1,"location":"Njoro","location_id":"njoro-kenya","lat":-0.33024,"lon":35.94445,"tags":["africa","hunting","ranching"],"people":["lord-delamere"]},{"date":"1909-12-02","age":51,"headline":"An anniversary far from Edith","summary":"Roosevelt and Edith's 23rd wedding anniversary passes with a bongo hunt that finds nothing and an evening of stories. He writes Lawrence Abbott about the dispute over his role at San Juan Hill.","significance":2,"location":"Njoro","location_id":"njoro-kenya","lat":-0.33024,"lon":35.94445,"tags":["africa","family","rough-riders","hunting"],"people":["edith-kermit-roosevelt","lawrence-abbott"]},{"date":"1909-12-03","age":51,"headline":"Colobus monkeys in the treetops","summary":"Roosevelt shoots two colobus monkeys. He reports on Smithsonian specimens to Charles Walcott, and tells Ethel he is sorry Edith heard the death rumors and that Kermit is after bongo with Lady Delamere's brother.","significance":1,"location":"Njoro","location_id":"njoro-kenya","lat":-0.33024,"lon":35.94445,"tags":["africa","natural-history","family"],"people":["charles-d-walcott","ethel-roosevelt-derby","edith-kermit-roosevelt","lord-delamere","kermit-roosevelt"]},{"date":"1909-12-04","age":51,"headline":"Back to Delamere's","summary":"Roosevelt returns to Lord Delamere's.","significance":1,"location":"Njoro","location_id":"njoro-kenya","lat":-0.33024,"lon":35.94445,"tags":["africa"],"people":["lord-delamere"]},{"date":"1909-12-05","age":51,"headline":"Corinne's daughter marries Joseph Alsop","summary":"Roosevelt shoots two more colobus. At home his niece Corinne Robinson weds Joseph Alsop; the couple will farm tobacco in the Connecticut Valley and raise sons who become columnists.","significance":1,"location":"Njoro","location_id":"njoro-kenya","lat":-0.33024,"lon":35.94445,"tags":["africa","family","celebration"],"people":["corinne-douglas-robinson","joseph-wright-alsop-iv"]},{"date":"1909-12-06","age":51,"headline":"Edith worries about Quentin","summary":"Roosevelt camps in the forest. Edith writes Kermit that Quentin is a handful, always busy and on first-name terms with every tough in town.","significance":1,"location":"Njoro","location_id":"njoro-kenya","lat":-0.33024,"lon":35.94445,"tags":["africa","family"],"people":["edith-kermit-roosevelt","kermit-roosevelt","quentin-roosevelt"]},{"date":"1909-12-07","age":51,"headline":"Empty-handed","summary":"Roosevelt hunts without result.","significance":1,"location":"Njoro","location_id":"njoro-kenya","lat":-0.33024,"lon":35.94445,"tags":["africa","hunting"],"people":[]},{"date":"1909-12-08","age":51,"headline":"Sagamore Hill reopens","summary":"Another fruitless hunt. At home, Sagamore Hill's guest book records the house opened up again.","significance":1,"location":"Njoro","location_id":"njoro-kenya","lat":-0.33024,"lon":35.94445,"tags":["africa","family"],"people":["edith-kermit-roosevelt"]},{"date":"1909-12-09","age":51,"headline":"Harriman dies","summary":"Roosevelt shoots a colobus. William Phillips signs the Sagamore Hill guest book, and railroad magnate E. H. Harriman dies.","significance":2,"location":"Njoro","location_id":"njoro-kenya","lat":-0.33024,"lon":35.94445,"tags":["africa","business","death"],"people":["william-phillips","e-h-harriman"]},{"date":"1909-12-10","age":51,"headline":"Praise for William Allen White's novel","summary":"Roosevelt returns to Delamere's and writes William Allen White that he enjoyed his first novel.","significance":1,"location":"Njoro","location_id":"njoro-kenya","lat":-0.33024,"lon":35.94445,"tags":["africa","reading","friendship"],"people":["lord-delamere","william-allen-white"]},{"date":"1909-12-11","age":51,"headline":"Packing up for Uganda","summary":"Back in Nairobi, the naturalists, Cunninghame and Tarlton ready the Uganda leg and start shipping specimens home. New books arrive for the Pigskin Library. Warrington Dawson and Eleanor Alexander, Ted's future wife, visit Sagamore Hill.","significance":1,"location":"Nairobi","location_id":"nairobi-kenya","lat":-1.28333,"lon":36.81667,"tags":["africa","natural-history","reading","family"],"people":["r-j-cuninghame","leslie-tarlton","edgar-a-mearns","edmund-heller","j-alden-loring","warrington-dawson","eleanor-butler-roosevelt"]},{"date":"1909-12-12","age":51,"headline":"Moving up the Khartoum reunion","summary":"Roosevelt dines with the governor. Worried that Edith is fretting over him, he tells Ethel he will reach Khartoum, and Edith, earlier, by March 15.","significance":1,"location":"Nairobi","location_id":"nairobi-kenya","lat":-1.28333,"lon":36.81667,"tags":["africa","family"],"people":["ethel-roosevelt-derby","edith-kermit-roosevelt"]},{"date":"1909-12-13","age":51,"headline":"Dinner with Watts","summary":"Roosevelt dines with Watts in Nairobi.","significance":1,"location":"Nairobi","location_id":"nairobi-kenya","lat":-1.28333,"lon":36.81667,"tags":["africa","society"],"people":["watts"]},{"date":"1909-12-14","age":51,"headline":"Thinking about home and Taft","summary":"Roosevelt dines with Milne. He writes Carnegie again about a peace league with the Kaiser's help, and tells Henry Beach Needham his thoughts on returning home and on Taft's presidency.","significance":1,"location":"Nairobi","location_id":"nairobi-kenya","lat":-1.28333,"lon":36.81667,"tags":["africa","diplomacy","politics"],"people":["milne","andrew-carnegie","kaiser-wilhelm-ii","henry-beach-needham","william-howard-taft"]},{"date":"1909-12-15","age":51,"headline":"Lunch with Sanderson, dinner with Tarlton","summary":"Roosevelt lunches with Sanderson and dines with Leslie Tarlton.","significance":1,"location":"Nairobi","location_id":"nairobi-kenya","lat":-1.28333,"lon":36.81667,"tags":["africa","friendship"],"people":["sanderson","leslie-tarlton"]},{"date":"1909-12-16","age":51,"headline":"A Badelu lunch","summary":"Roosevelt's diary notes a lunch with Badelu.","significance":1,"location":"Nairobi","location_id":"nairobi-kenya","lat":-1.28333,"lon":36.81667,"tags":["africa","society"],"people":["badelu"]},{"date":"1909-12-17","age":51,"headline":"Nairobi says goodbye","summary":"A farewell lunch and dinner close Roosevelt's time in Nairobi. He writes Bamie about the Alsop wedding and his longing to see everyone, and Bridges about a photo of a hyena inside an elephant and Helen Sanderson's African stories.","significance":1,"location":"Nairobi","location_id":"nairobi-kenya","lat":-1.28333,"lon":36.81667,"tags":["africa","family","writing"],"people":["anna-roosevelt-cowles","robert-bridges","helen-sanderson","joseph-wright-alsop-iv","corinne-douglas-robinson","edith-kermit-roosevelt","cecil-spring-rice"]},{"date":"1909-12-18","age":51,"headline":"Leaving for Uganda","summary":"Roosevelt sets off for Lake Victoria and Uganda, and members of Nairobi's American mission come to the station to see the party off.","significance":2,"location":"Nairobi","location_id":"nairobi-kenya","lat":-1.28333,"lon":36.81667,"tags":["africa","travel","religion"],"people":[]},{"date":"1909-12-19","age":51,"headline":"Steaming across Lake Victoria","summary":"From Port Florence in Kavirondo country, the party boards a lake steamer for Entebbe, recrossing the equator. Sagamore Hill's guest book fills with visitors including Hamilton Fish Jr.","significance":1,"location":"Port Florence","location_id":"port-florence-kenya","lat":-0.10221,"lon":34.76171,"tags":["africa","travel"],"people":["nathaniel-simpkins","william-appleton","leroy-king","helene-coster","cornelia-landon","hamilton-fish-jr"]},{"date":"1909-12-20","age":51,"headline":"Arrival at Entebbe","summary":"After a day on the water the party lands at Entebbe, near an outbreak of sleeping sickness. They stay with Acting Governor Boyle, and Roosevelt tours missions.","significance":1,"location":"Entebbe","location_id":"entebbe-uganda","lat":0.05621,"lon":32.47949,"tags":["africa","travel","religion","health"],"people":["boyle"]},{"date":"1909-12-21","age":51,"headline":"Meeting the boy king of Buganda","summary":"In Kampala Roosevelt stays with District Commissioner Knowles, is welcomed by Bishop Alfred Tucker at the Anglican mission, calls on King Daudi Chwa and visits King Mutesa's grave.","significance":2,"location":"Kampala","location_id":"kampala-uganda","lat":0.31628,"lon":32.58219,"tags":["africa","diplomacy","religion"],"people":["knowles","alfred-tucker","daudi-chwa","mutesa"]},{"date":"1909-12-22","age":51,"headline":"Kermit's sitatunga","summary":"On a sitatunga hunt near Kampala, Kermit gets one.","significance":1,"location":"Kampala","location_id":"kampala-uganda","lat":0.31628,"lon":32.58219,"tags":["africa","hunting","family"],"people":["kermit-roosevelt"]},{"date":"1909-12-23","age":51,"headline":"Missing home","summary":"Roosevelt hunts leopard as the safari moves out, and writes Ethel that he misses home, above all her and her mother.","significance":1,"location":"Kampala","location_id":"kampala-uganda","lat":0.31628,"lon":32.58219,"tags":["africa","family","hunting"],"people":["ethel-roosevelt-derby","edith-kermit-roosevelt"]},{"date":"1909-12-24","age":51,"headline":"Catching up with the safari","summary":"Roosevelt overtakes the safari on the trail into Uganda. At Sagamore Hill, his November letters arrive, and Helen Leigh Hunt and Alice and Nick Longworth sign the guest book.","significance":1,"location":"Uganda","location_id":"uganda","lat":1.53336,"lon":32.21666,"tags":["africa","family","celebration"],"people":["edith-kermit-roosevelt","helen-leigh-hunt","alice-roosevelt-longworth","nicholas-longworth"]},{"date":"1909-12-25","age":51,"headline":"Christmas on the march","summary":"Roosevelt spends Christmas Day marching with the safari and sends Helen Sanderson holiday greetings and news of the trip.","significance":1,"location":"Uganda","location_id":"uganda","lat":1.53336,"lon":32.21666,"tags":["africa","celebration","travel"],"people":["helen-sanderson"]},{"date":"1909-12-26","age":51,"headline":"Remington dies","summary":"Roosevelt marches on and shoots a bushbuck. In the United States, artist Frederic Remington dies after his appendix ruptures.","significance":2,"location":"Uganda","location_id":"uganda","lat":1.53336,"lon":32.21666,"tags":["africa","death","friendship"],"people":["frederic-remington"]},{"date":"1909-12-27","age":51,"headline":"Three reedbuck","summary":"Another day's march, with three reedbuck among the animals Roosevelt shoots.","significance":1,"location":"Uganda","location_id":"uganda","lat":1.53336,"lon":32.21666,"tags":["africa","hunting"],"people":[]},{"date":"1909-12-28","age":51,"headline":"A giant bull elephant","summary":"Rain delays the start, but the party makes a long march and camps by mid-afternoon. Afterward Roosevelt and Kermit bring down a huge bull elephant standing 10 feet 9 inches.","significance":2,"location":"Uganda","location_id":"uganda","lat":1.53336,"lon":32.21666,"tags":["africa","hunting","family"],"people":["kermit-roosevelt"]},{"date":"1909-12-29","age":51,"headline":"Taking the tusks","summary":"The tusks are cut from the elephant, and Roosevelt writes in camp.","significance":1,"location":"Uganda","location_id":"uganda","lat":1.53336,"lon":32.21666,"tags":["africa","hunting","writing"],"people":[]},{"date":"1909-12-30","age":51,"headline":"A Uganda hartebeest","summary":"On the march, Roosevelt kills a Uganda hartebeest bull at 80 yards.","significance":1,"location":"Uganda","location_id":"uganda","lat":1.53336,"lon":32.21666,"tags":["africa","hunting"],"people":[]},{"date":"1909-12-31","age":51,"headline":"Guinea fowl to close the year","summary":"Roosevelt ends 1909 marching and shooting two guinea fowl. Isabella Hagner is a guest at Sagamore Hill, and African Game Trails continues as a serial.","significance":1,"location":"Uganda","location_id":"uganda","lat":1.53336,"lon":32.21666,"tags":["africa","hunting","writing"],"people":["isabella-hagner"]}]