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Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 13:44:17 -0400
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From: "James M. Pfundstein" <jmpfund@bgnet.bgsu.edu>
Subject: Re: Not even TAN though possibly a Greek connection
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At 12:59 PM -0400 9/28/01, Diana Wright wrote:
>I know of no one else to whom I can turn . . .
>
>Will someone refresh my memory with the essential narrative & winning
>answer to "Perdicaris alive or Rasuli dead"?
>
>DW

The story is from Theodore Roosevelt's presidency. Raisuli [sic], a 
Moroccan, had a habit of kidnapping Europeans for ransom. In 1904 he 
abducted a guy named Ion Perdicaris, and TR had John Hay, the 
Secretary of State, telegraph to the Consul-General at Tangier, "[We 
want either] Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead." Perdicaris may not 
have been an American citizen, and a deal for his return may have 
been made before Roosevelt sent his message, but it made a nice 
splash in the papers, which was useful for TR's ongoing re-election 
campaign.

For what it's worth, I found this apparently scholarly reference on-line:

	Tyler Dennett, _John Hay_ (N. Y., 1933), pp. 401-2.
	Henry Pringle, _Theodore Roosevelt_ (N. Y., 1931), pp. 388-9

http://www.ukans.edu/~libsite/wwi-www/investor/Staley04.html

but I couldn't verify it, as all my American history stuff is at 
home, and I am e-writing from my office.

JMP("Perambulans leniter")
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