Lorimer, George Horace, 1869-1937

President Roosevelt comments on an article that George Horace Lorimer recently published in The Saturday Evening Post, which commented on America’s Envoys Extraordinary. Roosevelt thinks that the article had some good points, but wishes that the article did not also misrepresent several other facts. He acknowledges that there have been some people in the past who have not been fit for their positions, but maintains that ambassadors and envoys currently appointed are by and large good men who are qualified for their positions.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-06-26

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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

After talking with George Horace Lorimer, President Roosevelt went back and read The Plum Tree through all the way, after previously having read only half of it. The ending of the book reconciles Roosevelt to many of the problems he had with it throughout, but he still holds many issues with the book which he lays out for Lorimer. The author, David Graham Phillips, falls into the trap of overstating the sort of corruption that is present in politics, and while Roosevelt freely admits that corruption is present–which, he points out, he is working against–there are also many good people working in politics as well. In a postscript of several days later, Roosevelt comments on several of Phillips’s articles on the Senate, in which he acts similarly by taking “certain facts that are true in themselves, and […] ignoring utterly a very much large mass of facts that are just as true and just as important.” Roosevelt criticizes Phillips for working with William Randolph Hearst to achieve notoriety.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-05-12

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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt asks George Horace Lorimer, editor of the Saturday Evening Post, if he can come have lunch with him on April 27. If Lorimer is able to come, Roosevelt promises to ask Senator Albert J. Beveridge, Secretary of State Elihu Root and Secretary of War William H. Taft to come as well.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-04-21

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt just found out that George Horace Lorimer was the author of Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son. Roosevelt enjoyed the book and gave it to Ted Roosevelt.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-01-11

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Frank W. Coolbaugh received George Horace Lorimer’s reply to his letter to Samuel G. Blythe. Lorimer, the Saturday Evening Post editor, admits to Theodore Roosevelt’s past public service and hopes he will do more in the future. Yet, as Coolbaugh argues, publishing articles like Blythe’s will frustrate Roosevelt’s future success. He makes this request for the public’s sake, not Roosevelt’s.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1910-12-19

Creator(s)

Coolbaugh, Frank W., 1848-1914