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Martin W. Littleton informs Theodore Roosevelt of certain rumors that he had prevented Littleton’s election. However, Littleton found them to be “groundless and foolish.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-02
Littleton, Martin W. (Martin Wilie), 1872-1934
In a speech reprinted by The Erie Railroad Employees’ Magazine, Martin W. Littleton comments on Theodore Roosevelt’s boundless confidence and self-assurance, saying that “he has never encountered a structure of authority which he would not change; a form of government which he would not alter; a society which he would not transform.” In traveling across Europe, Littleton speculates that Roosevelt contemplated both Frederick II, King of Prussia, and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, and thought that he could have done better.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-03