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Theodore Roosevelt found Charles C. Bull’s letter interesting in every respect. He does not want to be nominated. Bull’s talk with John Avery McIlhenny amused Roosevelt. He comments on his average drinking habits and responds to Andrew B. Hammond’s charges that he was not at the Battle of San Juan Hill and drinks heavily.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-11-24
Theodore Roosevelt instructs Charles C. Bull to meet with Colonel George W. Goethals about the railway matter and to use this letter as an introduction. He agrees with Bull about his nomination in 1912 and has told his “friends” that there is not to be any movement toward nominating him. Roosevelt does not know what to say about the Porto Bello matter, especially as it relates to getting support for the Panama Canal fortifications. The issues of the “White Slave traffic” and prostitution seem nearly insoluble.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-28
Theodore Roosevelt suggests that Charles C. Bull write to Frank Riggs first to see if he can “bear witness to the truth.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-11-01
Theodore Roosevelt writes to Charles C. Bull, expressing his opinion about Woodrow Wilson whom he calls “the most wretched creature we have had in the presidential chair.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1916-02-04
Theodore Roosevelt assures former Rough Rider Charles C. Bull that he will definitely be included if there is a war. Roosevelt thinks Bull’s article is “of great interest and importance,” but it cannot be published without including at least Bull’s name, and preferably the Goelet’s names as well.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-10-16
Theodore Roosevelt feels sickened by the way “good people of the emotional temperance type and of the loose-minded reformer type” seem to worship William Jennings Bryan. Roosevelt is equally frustrated with President Wilson.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-03-23
Theodore Roosevelt agrees with Charles C. Bull and is also utterly sick of the Wilson administration. Roosevelt is writing articles on the war, and they are Pro-Belgium rather than being anti-German or Pro-English. Roosevelt signs it “your old Colonel.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914-12-22
Theodore Roosevelt writes that he would like to read Charles C. Bull’s full conversation with the Kaiser, if he would write it out. Roosevelt thinks that Woodrow Wilson and William Jennings Bryan have made a dreadful spectacle of foreign policy.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914-11-24
President Roosevelt thanks Charles C. Bull for writing to him about the orphans.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-12-03