Bush, George, 1924-2018

William N. Tilchin highlights some of the items in this issue of the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal, including letters from two former presidents, George Bush and Theodore Roosevelt, and a focus on Michael Patrick Cullinane’s Theodore Roosevelt’s Ghost. Tilchin also notes how the Theodore Roosevelt Association is trying to negotiate the highly partisan political atmosphere in the nation and that it is a “nonpartisan” organization whose members are free to express their beliefs in a variety of forums.

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Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2018

Creator(s)

Tilchin, William N., 1950-

The Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) announces that this issue of its journal is dedicated to the memory of former President George Bush who served as an Honorary Trustee of the TRA and won its Distinguished Service Medal. The TRA also lists the latest additions to its Board of Trustees. A text box lists the President and Executive Directors of the TRA, along with those responsible for assembling its journal, guidelines for submitting manuscripts, and information regarding the governance of the TRA.

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Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2018

Creator(s)

Theodore Roosevelt Association

Report on the 80th annual meeting of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) held in Norfolk, Virginia, onboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, and at Pine Knot, Theodore Roosevelt’s retreat in rural Virginia. The report details the annual dinner, noting its ceremonies and speakers, including the conferring of the TRA’s Junior Officer of the Year Award for the USS Theodore Roosevelt and recognizing John A. Gable’s twenty-five years as Executive Director of the TRA. The report highlights the association’s visit to the aircraft carrier, including an air show and the results of the various TRA elections for members of the Advisory Board, Board of Trustees, and Executive Committee. The report provides brief biographies of some of those elected to various capacities, and it highlights the presentation of Theodore Roosevelt’s naval flag to the USS Theodore Roosevelt for display in its museum.

The report highlights the speech given by Tsakhia Elbegdorj, a former Prime Minister and President of Mongolia, and it provides coverage of the TRA’s visit to Pine Knot, including a history of the property and plans for its upkeep and use. Thirteen photographs populate the report, including four of Pine Knot and two of the aircraft carrier.

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Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2000

The front cover of this issue of the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal features a photograph of President George Bush and his wife Barbara Bush, winners of the 1998 Theodore Roosevelt Distinguished Service Medal. The back cover has a photograph of some of the officers of the Rough Riders assembled to eat in San Antonio, Texas in 1898.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1999

Creator(s)

Theodore Roosevelt Association

Listing of four foundations, one corporation, and seventy-nine individuals who served as patrons of the 79th annual meeting of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA). Two photographs of President George Bush with leaders of the TRA appear at the bottom of the listing.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1999

Creator(s)

Unknown

John A. Gable provides a brief history of the Theodore Roosevelt Distinguished Service Medal, “the highest honor given by the Theodore Roosevelt Association.” Gable highlights some of the past winners, notes the various locations where the medal ceremony has been conducted, and details the design of the medal by James Earle Fraser. A photograph of Doris Albert Budner and President George Bush accompanies the article as does a text box providing contact information for the Theodore Roosevelt Association.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1999

Creator(s)

Gable, John A.

Theodore Roosevelt, great grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt, remarks upon the career of President George Bush in conferring upon him the Theodore Roosevelt Distinguished Service Medal. Roosevelt highlights Bush’s leadership during the Persian Gulf War of 1991 and his resolution of the savings and loan crisis. A photograph of Roosevelt speaking at the medal ceremony accompanies the text.

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Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1998-10-31

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore

Report on the annual meeting of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) held in San Antonio, Texas, October 30-31, 1998. The report covers the dinner, speakers, tours, TRA elections, and the conferring of TRA awards. The report highlights the presentation of the Theodore Roosevelt Distinguished Service Medal and the TRA Junior Officer of the Year Award, and it details changes made to the governance of the TRA, including the creation of an Advisory Board and changes to the terms and expectations of members of the Board of Trustees. Eight photographs from the meeting populate the text, including five of President George Bush, recipient of the Distinguished Service Medal.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1999

Creator(s)

Unknown

Seven books receive scrutiny in the “Reviews” section, including two biographies of Theodore Roosevelt, specialized studies of the White House and Memorial Day, a collection of Roosevelt’s writings, a look at the Rough Riders of Arizona, and a study of turn of the twentieth-century American foreign policy. John A. Gable notes that Stacey A. Cordery’s biography of Roosevelt serves as a comprehensive historiographical study as it draws on thirty years of Roosevelt scholarship in its quotes and analysis. Gable also offers thoughts on Kathleen Dalton’s biography of Roosevelt, and he provides excerpts from five other reviews of the work that highlight Dalton’s coverage of the role of women in Roosevelt’s life and that affirm Roosevelt as a moderate radical. Of Brian Thomsen’s collection of Roosevelt’s writings, The Man in the Arena, Gable says: “there is no reason to buy this book.”

Gable also reviews Marty F. Feess’s Theodore Roosevelt’s Arizona Boys which examines the life of the Arizona Rough Riders after the Spanish-American War and the many actions taken by their Colonel to help them succeed in their post-war lives. Henry J. Hendrix faults Warren Zimmermann’s First Great Triumph for injecting present day views into his analysis of the makers of foreign policy in Roosevelt’s presidency. Hendrix also examines A History of Memorial Day which traces the transformation of the holiday from a solemn occasion to a day of recreation. Jeremy M. Murphy highlights Gable’s chapter on the Roosevelts in his review of The White House: Actors and Observers, and he also notes the work’s use of the photographs  of Frances Benjamin Johnston.

An illustration and a photograph of Roosevelt supplement the text.

John A. Gable asserts that Theodore Roosevelt’s record as a conservationist and an environmentalist has not been adequately explored by historians and biographers, and he notes the work of Tweed Roosevelt in trying to correct this shortcoming. Gable also argues that Roosevelt, a man of many seeming contradictions, was both a use-conservationist and a preservationist when it came to natural resources, and he quotes Theodore Roosevelt and cites examples from his record as president to bolster his argument. The section also includes a text box with a quote from Theodore Roosevelt, an announcement about the establishment of the Theodore Roosevelt Center for American Civilization at Tulane University, and information about the 2005 annual meeting of the Theodore Roosevelt Association.

The article includes ten photographs of Gable with various figures, including three Presidents of the United States–Jimmy Carter, George Bush, and George W. Bush.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2004-10-23

In “Best Wishes From Oyster Bay,” twenty-six friends, colleagues, and fellow historians offer their thoughts on the life and work of John A. Gable, the Executive Director of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) and the founder and editor of the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal. Some of the themes that recur are Gable’s support and mentoring of historians and biographers in the early stages of their careers, his encyclopedic knowledge of Theodore Roosevelt, and his promotion of membership in the TRA. The authors also note his unsentimental critique of their work and his fostering a truce between the feuding Oyster Bay and Hyde Park, New York factions of the Roosevelt family. Two of the contributors, William N. Tilchin and Gregory A. Wynn, share some of their correspondence with Gable to demonstrate these themes, and almost all of the contributors highlight Gable’s generosity with his time and talents.

The piece includes a table of contents on its first page and it concludes with brief biographies of each of the authors. Twenty-three photographs populate the text, including twenty of Gable.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2005

Alphabetized list of contributors to four fund drives sponsored by the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA): the Teddy Bear, Capital funds, Pine Knot, and USS Theodore Roosevelt fund drives. The largest list of contributors is to the Teddy Bear fund. A photograph of two Roosevelt family members distributing teddy bears joins a photograph of the aircraft carrier, and a picture of TRA President Norman Parson with former President George Bush, as illustrations. 

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2002

Creator(s)

Theodore Roosevelt Association

This section of the journal covers twelve topics including a brief report on the 1998 annual meeting which saw the conferring of the Theodore Roosevelt Distinguished Service Medal to former President George Bush and his wife Barbara Bush. It also highlights a revival of the play Bully! starring actor John Davidson, the results of a survey of historians rating twentieth-century presidents, and the opening of an exhibition on Theodore Roosevelt at the National Portrait Gallery. “News and Notes” also discusses whether Roosevelt believed in the legend of a Sasquatch or Bigfoot creature, relays news from the The Friends of Sagamore Hill cooperating association, and notes the launching of a Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) website. The section closes with a listing of the members of the executive committee of the TRA along with the members of the Board of Trustees classes of 1999, 2000, and 2001, and with a text box indicating that this issue of the journal is dedicated to P. James Roosevelt. 

Five photographs of President Bush at the annual meeting appear in the section. 

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Report on a variety of news from the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA), including obituaries and personnel changes at the TRA office. The passing of former TRA President Howard T. Hogan leads off the report, and the deaths of Roosevelt biographer Carleton Putnam and Mary E. Richard, Director of the Theodore Roosevelt Sanctuary, are highlighted. The addition of a TRA Police Award for Nashville, Tennessee, the history of Youngs Memorial Cemetery, and publicity for the 1998 annual meeting also feature in the report. A photograph of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt appears on the first page of the section.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1998

Creator(s)

Unknown

A journalist, two historians, and a biographer of Theodore Roosevelt address President Bill Clinton’s adulation of Roosevelt. Kenneth T. Walsh joins Edmund Morris, Kathleen Dalton, and Douglas Brinkley in offering insights and criticism of Clinton’s attempt to emulate Roosevelt. The article also touches on the presidency of George Bush and on how each president rotates the portraits of his predecessors that hang in the White House. The article concludes with an excerpt from Clinton’s book Between Hope and History. Small images of Roosevelt and Clinton appear next to each other on the second page of the article.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1997

Creator(s)

Unknown; Walsh, Kenneth T.; Clinton, Bill, 1946-

Robert D. Dalziel speaks on the occasion of being elected 12th President of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA). He recalls the beginning of his interest in Theodore Roosevelt, as well as his involvement with the TRA and how the TRA has developed. The TRA has grown greatly and strengthened its ties with a number of Roosevelt-related sites, and Dalziel hopes to continue growing the membership of the TRA across the country. Other areas that Dalziel hopes to focus on include putting the TRA on a firmer financial footing and enhancing the scholarly reputation of the TRA.

Accompanying Dalziel’s speech is a brief list of recent recipients of the TRA’s Theodore Roosevelt Distinguished Service Medal, and photographs of President George Bush interacting with members of the TRA at a lecture by David G. McCullough.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1990

This edition of “News and Notes” begins with a summary of the events, elections, and speeches at the seventy-first annual meeting of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) which included the selection of Robert D. Dalziel as the twelfth President of the TRA. The report includes a listing of those elected to the Board of Trustees as well as brief biographies of the past presidents. “News and Notes” also details the conferring of annual awards and prizes supported by the TRA including: natural history research grants from the American Museum of Natural History; the Theodore Roosevelt Public Speaking Contest for the New York City public schools; the TRA Police Award for the New York City Police Department; and the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize. The section also notes the passing of Archibald B. Roosevelt, Junior, changes in command of the USS Theodore Roosevelt, and highlights a lecture by David McCullough at the White House on Theodore Roosevelt.

Two photographs from the TRA annual meeting, a photograph of McCullough with President George Bush, and an illustration of both sides of the TRA medallion appear in the section.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1990

Six of the ten pages of this edition of the “News and Notes” column are devoted to the visit of a delegation from the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) to the Netherlands in October 1989. The TRA, for the first time, held its annual meeting and dinner outside of the United States. The column notes the group’s visit to various sites across the Netherlands, describes the activities of the Roosevelt Study Center, and discusses fundraising efforts to support the Center. The column also discusses efforts to increase the endowment for the TRA and to establish an endowment for the Theodore Roosevelt Collection at Harvard University.

The column is illustrated with fifteen photographs from the TRA’s visit to the Netherlands and two more from the fundraising dinner held to support the endowment of the Roosevelt collection at Harvard.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1989

This edition of the “News and Notes” column reports on the success of the 1988 Teddy Bear Drive sponsored by the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) and the National Park Service, and it notes that President George Bush has placed a portrait of Theodore Roosevelt in the White House’s Cabinet Room. The column also covers the Lawrence J. Saunders Awards for essays in American history conferred by the Roosevelt Study Center in the Netherlands, and Dayton Ritt, commander of the USS Theodore Roosevelt, reports on the aircraft carrier’s deployments in 1988. “News and Notes” closes with the announcement of a campaign to increase the endowment of the TRA to fund its own activities and to be able to support the Theodore Roosevelt Collection at Harvard and the Roosevelt Study Center.

Two photographs from the Roosevelt Study Center, a photograph of Theodore Roosevelt at his desk in the library of Sagamore Hill, and an illustration of both sides of the TRA medallion appear in the column.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1989

Awards and grants sponsored by the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) make up much of this edition of the “News and Notes” column and include the conferring of the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize, the TRA Police Award for the New York City Police Department, and the annual research grants  from the American Museum of Natural History. The column also covers a reunion of the two branches of the Roosevelt family comprising the descendants of Theodore Roosevelt from Oyster Bay, New York, and those of Franklin D. Roosevelt from Hyde Park, New York. A letter from Elliott Roosevelt, a son of Franklin D. Roosevelt, to John A. Gable of the TRA recounts some shared episodes of Roosevelt family history, including Theodore Roosevelt’s role in Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt’s wedding and Theodore Roosevelt’s attempt to serve in World War I. “News and Notes” also describes the dedication of a rose garden in honor of Jessica Van Ausdall Kraft at Sagamore Hill, highlights the work of some of the TRA leadership, and promotes the publications of the TRA.

Two photographs of the rose garden ceremonies at Sagamore Hill, two from the luncheon for the Naval History Prize, and one of Theodore Roosevelt join a picture of both sides of the TRA medallion to illustrate the column.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1989