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President Roosevelt prizes Agriculture Secretary Wilson’s judgement above all the members of his cabinet and is highly interested in what Wilson tells him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-07-31
President Roosevelt denies the rumors of his seeking renomination at the convention, and points out that he has steadfastly supported Secretary of War William H. Taft. He also tells Lyman Abbott that he approves of the articles on immigrants that Edward Alfred Steiner has written in The Outlook. Roosevelt has tried to make his Cabinet representative of all types of Americans.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-05-29
President Roosevelt thanks Sydney Brooks for the article he wrote in praise of Secretary of War William H. Taft and the other men who serve in his administration. He wishes there were some way he could better show his pride in, and appreciation of, the people in his cabinet.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-05-23
President Roosevelt quotes an excerpt from the English Fortnightly Review which praises the quality of men in his administration.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-05-23
President Roosevelt quotes an excerpt from the English Fortnightly Review which praises the quality of men in his administration.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-05-23
President Roosevelt quotes an excerpt from the English Fortnightly Review which praises the quality of men in his administration.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-05-23
President Roosevelt quotes an excerpt from the English Fortnightly Review which praises the quality of men in his administration.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-05-23
President Roosevelt quotes an excerpt from the English Fortnightly Review which praises the quality of men in his administration.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-05-23
President Roosevelt quotes an excerpt from the English Fortnightly Review which praises the quality of men in his administration.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-05-23
President Roosevelt quotes an excerpt from the English Fortnightly Review which praises the quality of men in his administration.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-05-23
President Roosevelt quotes an excerpt from the English Fortnightly Review which praises the quality of men in his administration.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-05-23
President Roosevelt thanks Clinton Rogers Woodruff for sending the cartoon, which he had not seen and is forwarding to Secretary of War William H. Taft.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-04-14
President Roosevelt invites the recipient to attend the upcoming Conference of Governors on the Conservation of Natural Resources as a representation of their organization. Roosevelt says that practically all the governors will attend and that, in addition to these, Senators and Representatives of the Sixtieth Congress, Justices of the Supreme Court, and members of the presidential cabinet have also been invited. Accompanying the letter is a list of the people to whom this letter was sent, representing a number of national trade associations.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-03-14
President Roosevelt describes his jumping Roswell over a big hurdle to his son, Theodore Roosevelt. He is glad that Theodore is assistant manager of the crew team. He notes that Louis Adams Frothingham visited yesterday. Archibald B. Roosevelt caught tadpoles, turtles, and a small alligator that he put in the bathroom.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-05-12
President Roosevelt reports to Kermit Roosevelt that his week has been busy yet uneventful, but he wishes he had more time to exercise. He almost feels ashamed for leaving detailed work to the department heads, but it is the only way he has time to “develop the really big policies.” It was a beautiful, “real spring” day.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-05-04
President Roosevelt notes that he has sent Dr. Fisher his public letter on the Committee of One Hundred regarding public health. He advises that the public letter not be used if the committee decides to publicly argue for the creation of a new Cabinet officer at the head of a Department of Health. He expresses his strong disapproval of a Cabinet officer leading a new Department of Health. He explains that he approves of creating a Bureau of Health under an existing federal department but does not approve of creating a new Cabinet officer nor an independent bureau not under a Cabinet officer. He acknowledges that a rearrangement of the existing bureaus and divisions of the Cabinet are needed.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-05-08
President Roosevelt apologizes to President Jones of Wilberforce University that it is not in his power to do as Jones desires. Roosevelt tells Jones that he has “had to make a rule” of not sending members of his Cabinet to such occasions, although they are very interesting.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-04-19
President Roosevelt thanks John St. Loe Strachey for remembering the upcoming wedding of his daughter Alice to Congressman Nicholas Longworth. Roosevelt is pleased with Longworth and hopes that he will have a successful career in politics. He reflects at length about politics in both Great Britain and the United States. In particular, Roosevelt discusses the function and manner of the United States Senate, and envies that a labor man is in Great Britain’s Cabinet.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-02-12
President Roosevelt will not answer Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte until he sees him, but reminds him that he always intended to make him Attorney General and is expecting to appoint him in July of this year.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-01-15
President Roosevelt was pleased to see that Viscount Bryce is in the Cabinet.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-12-12