TLS as president signed “Wm. H. Taft,” one page, 7 x 8.75, White House letterhead, June 11, 1912. Letter to Oswald Garrison Villard, publisher of New York’s Evening Post. In part: “I have yours of June 10th in respect to Cuba and General Crowder. There is another man who is anxious to go to Cuba, and that is Beekman Winthrop. He is the one whom I attempted to put into Cuba when Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Root overruled me under circumstances that were rather humiliating to Winthrop. He would have made a better governor than Magoon…I recognize very fully the many qualifications of Crowder for a temporary governorship there…I am very hopeful that he may go through without the necessity for going into Cuba during my administration. I hate to think of the possibility.” In fine condition. The United States had intervened in Cuba during the Roosevelt administration while Taft was secretary of war in order to suppress revolts and protect American economic interests; Taft himself was temporarily made the provisional governor. Just as he hoped, there were peaceful relations during his term as president before the US intervened again in 1917. Interestingly, Crowder went on to become the first US ambassador to Cuba in 1920. Pre-certified PSA/DNA.
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