Americans--Politics and government

President Roosevelt discussed the matter with Whitelaw Reid, who has strongly advised the Governor.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1903-01-21

President Roosevelt will discuss the matter with Governor Benjamin B. Odell. He has advised Odell to consult with Whitelaw Reid and St. Clair McKelway.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1903-02-18

Assemblyman Roosevelt is unaware where a sketch of his life could be found. He provides a brief outline of his life with particular emphasis on his political activities.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1884-05-01

Theodore Roosevelt is astonished at the newspapers defending William Barnes in the Whitman matter. Roosevelt is considering making a public statement on how the newspapers speak out against “bossism” between elections but “leap to the service of the bosses” when they are in danger. Roosevelt asks William Loeb not to forget about Frank Harper who will need a new position when Roosevelt no longer needs a private secretary.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1914-07-22

Theodore Roosevelt will continue to support Canadian reciprocity. He is not surprised that New York supported Charles Francis Murphy and William Barnes. Roosevelt informed Barnes that he “had no intention of making war upon him,” and that he hoped Barnes would act decently.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1911-02-03

Theodore Roosevelt just received William Loeb’s letter and sends his love to Mrs. Loeb. He is proud of Loeb’s work as Collector of the Port of New York. Roosevelt is refusing to make any public comment on American politics. He is disappointed with the Republican leadership in New York and has no intention of becoming a state party leader.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1910-03-10

Theodore Roosevelt wishes William Loeb a merry Christmas and will have much to tell him on his return to the United States. Roosevelt has killed around two hundred animals on safari, from an elephant to a dik-dik. Kermit Roosevelt has grown to become a better hunter than his father. Roosevelt refused Herbert Parsons’s request to publicly support Otto T. Bannard. He supports Bannard, but is not fully informed of the issues and thinks it would look foolish to try and advise voters from Africa. In the Peary-Cook controversy, Roosevelt believes that Frederick Albert Cook “has all the earmarks of a fake” and that Robert E. Peary reached the North Pole.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1909-11-12

Theodore Roosevelt is concerned about Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt’s “fright” and would come home if he were not on a scientific expedition pledged to work for the Smithsonian Institution. He has moved up his arrival in Khartoum as early as is feasible. Roosevelt is puzzled by the information he is receiving regarding American political affairs. It seems like he will be in a “scrape” as soon as he lands. He loved Ethel Roosevelt’s last letter and wishes they were together at Sagamore Hill.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1909-12-12

Theodore Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt enjoyed Admiral Cowles’s letter and William Sheffield Cowles’s note. Roosevelt feels that he will soon need to make a public statement due to the “boiling in the political pot.”

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1912-01-22

Theodore Roosevelt appreciates Admiral Cowles’s letter and friendship. For some time Roosevelt and Senator Lodge have been moving in different directions on several domestic policy issues.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1912-02-29

Governor Roosevelt has been busy with “parochial politics” and is in a fight over the “Payn business.” He believes that Louis F. Payn “is a crook, pure and simple.” Roosevelt has been wrestling for exercise but his various injuries have him considering a switch to boxing.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1900-01-22

At center a man speaks on the floor of the House chamber while other legislators attend to their own business. The audience in the gallery above strains to hear without realizing that the process of legislation takes place in committee rooms and not on the House floor. Caption: A sample session in these days of legislation in committee rooms. Just a little side-show for the gallery.

Comments and Context

Albert Levering’s brilliant and complicated cartoon — he seemed incapable of ever designing a simple or uninteresting drawing — provided readers with a humorous but actually fairly realistic depiction of “action” on the floor of the United States House of Representatives. Except for relatively few visitors to the House galleries through the years, it was not until C-SPAN that citizens could see how realistic this scenes was. Alternatively, how empty the House chamber often is during debates.

It is clear that Levering was not offering a civics lesson, that legislation was effected in committee rooms. More, his cynical point was that legislation is not introduced nor considered nor dispatched and voted upon in the well of the House. Then, as now, business is conducted more in cloak rooms than in committee rooms.

Uncle Sam, wearing royal robes and a crown, sits on a throne. At his feet is a court jester labeled “Andy” sitting with his legs crossed and holding a short staff with two balls attached labeled “Bluff” and “Guff.” Nearby is a book titled “Skibo Joke Book.” Caption: Sometimes his prattle becomes a trifle wearing.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1912-12-18

Theodore Roosevelt reflects on the state of the country and the reasons why the Republican party is unlikely to nominate him for president.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1916-04-27

Mount Vernon, George Washington’s home, appears as it might have looked as the official summer capital, with a tennis court (a reference to the French Revolution), petitioners, government offices, and a small building on the left labeled “Executive Office.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1911-08-16

The Republican elephant labeled “G.O.P.” is about to drink from a cup labeled “Reciprocity.” With him are several men labeled “Root, Sherman, Cannon, La Follette, Crane, Lodge, Payne, Dick, Gallinger, Penrose” and one unidentified man. Some are distraught, while others are merely watching.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1911-08-09

An unidentified individual gives journalist Frank Andrew Munsey his opinion on Theodore Roosevelt’s 1912 campaign against William H. Taft.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1912-04-26

Theodore Roosevelt discusses the concept of popular rule and government and Herbert David Croly’s book, The Promise of American Life.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1911

In a speech titled “Elementary Honor, Theodore Roosevelt responds to President William H. Taft.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1912

Theodore Roosevelt thanks Amy Gordan Galt Grant, wife of Robert Grant, for his recent visit and jokes about the Progressive Party. Roosevelt also encourages the Grants to visit him at the Sagamore estate in the spring.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1911-01-31