Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to S. B. M. Young, George S. Patton, Robert S. Bean, and Henry Lee Higginson
President Roosevelt thanks S. B. M. Young, George S. Patton, Robert S. Bean, and Henry Lee Higginson for the valuable paper that they wrote. Roosevelt has brought the paper to the attention of Secretary of War William H. Taft, and asks them to personally write to Taft to call his attention to the report. Roosevelt agrees with the recommendation for the purchase of property, and says that he is not entirely content with the academic course at either the Military Academy at West Point or the Naval Academy at Annapolis. He thinks there might be too much emphasis placed on academics in the military, and says that if he needed to pic someone to lead a cavalry division, he would not care if the person was good at math.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1908-06-19