168 THE POLITICS OF INTERVENTION- The findings and recommendations produced by Taft's visit are
contained in the Secretary's open letter to Magoon, reprinted in Magoon,
Report, 1906-1907, pp. 23-26. - Memoranda of conference held with Faustino Guerra, Jose
Miguel Gomez, Jose de Jesus Monteagudo, and Enrique Loynaz del
Castillo, April 8-10, 1907, File 078, CC/PGoC, RG 199. Guerra recom
mended that the Army of Cuban Pacification stay on six months after
the new government was inaugurated and that Magoon appoint the
President-elect's cabinet choices to insure a smooth transition. - Taft press conference as reported in the New York Times, April
11, 1907. - New York Times, April 9 and 11, 1907.
- Magoon to Taft, January 20, 1907, Taft Papers.
- Col. E. H. Crowder to Taft, January 12, 1907, Crowder Papers.
- Col. E. H. Crowder, "Report of Department of State and Justice,"
in Magoon, Report, 1906-1907, pp. 119-39. For a summary of Crow
der's service in Cuba, see David A. Lockmiller, Enoch H. Crowder:
Soldier, Lawyer, Statesman, University of Missouri Studies No. 37 (Co
lumbia, Mo., 1955), pp. 107-20. - Taft to Roosevelt, April 10, 1907, Roosevelt Papers; Magoon,
Report, 1906-1907, pp. 214-26. The three month period (i.e., 100
days) from the election of the president to his inauguration conformed
with the Cuban Constitution. - Roosevelt to Taft, April 10, 1907, Roosevelt Papers.
- New York Times, April 10, 1907; Chapman, A History of the
Cuban Republic, p. 260; Lockmiller, Magoon in Cuba, pp. 174-75.