Letter from Secretary of Theodore Roosevelt to Lafayette Young
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1918-02-21
Creator(s)
Secretary of Theodore Roosevelt
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1918-02-21
Secretary of Theodore Roosevelt
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1917-12-07
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Theodore Roosevelt appreciates Lafayette Young, but he cannot give a speech. He is trying to speak as little as possible on current issues. President Woodrow Wilson is “utterly despised” in Europe and Roosevelt does not understand how Americans can support him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1916-04-12
Theodore Roosevelt is happy to send letters of introduction to the ambassadors in England and Germany on Lafayette Young’s behalf. He does not know the ambassador to France but will still send a letter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-01-15
President Roosevelt thanks Lafayette Young for writing, but says that Young did explain himself well enough at dinner. Roosevelt was pleased about what Young said about Iowa being solidly for William H. Taft.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-02-02
President Roosevelt is interested in what Lafayette Young writes about Panama. He agrees there should be changes in the Isthmian Canal Commission.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-02-15
President Roosevelt will appoint Lafayette Young’s son as Secretary of Puerto Rico if he is able. However, he fears that he may be “a little to young for such a responsibility” and asks Young to send a more detailed statement of his son’s career so far.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-08
President Roosevelt will be unable to make it to Des Moines so he must decline Lafayette Young’s invitation.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-06-03
President Roosevelt will be unable to attend the wedding of Lafayette Young’s daughter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-05-24