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Index of President Roosevelt’s speeches from May 14 to June 1, 1903, during his tour to the Pacific Coast. Includes speeches in California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, and Nebraska.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-05-14
Theodore Roosevelt defines the fundamental virtues of American citizenship. Working hard at a profession makes one a good citizen.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-05-18
Index of President Roosevelt’s speeches from May 1 to May 14, 1903, during his tour to the Pacific Coast. Includes speeches in Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and California.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-05-01
President Roosevelt briefly thanks the citizens of Iowa Falls. He also speaks of how California did not develop much under the domain of the Spanish and how “in a decade it was one of the great commonwealths of the world” after being made part of the United States.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-06-02
Eugene F. Ware is leaving for the Grand Army of the Republic national encampment in California around August 8 or 10.
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1903-07
President Roosevelt stands in a carriage with a top hat in his hand.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1903
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Elizabeth (“Lizzie”) C. Seymour Dougherty for her support in the California primary. Roosevelt denies the stories that are circulating regarding his drinking habits. He does not know how to confront this type of enemy and is glad that Dougherty was not “misled by such false and malicious rumors.”
1912-05-28
Theodore Roosevelt sends his thanks to J. Gordon McPherson for the telegram and thanks him for the work and support he and other “colored citizens” did in securing a victory in California.
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1912-05-28
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Bonney Snitjer Armstrong for her letter of support regarding his success in the California primary. He particularly appreciates the votes of women.
1912-05-27
In a speech titled “Elementary Honor, Theodore Roosevelt responds to President William H. Taft.
1912
Theodore Roosevelt informs his sister Anna Roosevelt that it does appear her fiance’s divorce would hold up in court and she can marry him and live in California. He asks if she would like him to see another lawyer about the matter.
1895-07-23
President Roosevelt writes his daughter Ethel about his trip through New Mexico, the Grand Canyon, the Sierras, and California. He is glad she writes him often and wants her to tell mother all the women out there ride astride instead of side saddle and he thinks the side saddle will vanish by the time Ethel is old.
1903-05-10
Paul Morton discusses the status of the Republican National Convention delegate support for President Roosevelt in Illinois, Colorado, California, and Pennsylvania.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-02-01
On behalf of “many prominent Californians,” George C. Pardee asks President Roosevelt to review the recent court martial of Hector A. Robichon, first lieutenant of the U.S. Army.
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1904-01-21
Stewart Edward White offers to start a petition for removal of Charles S. Newhall as Superintendent of Forest Reserves in California. He requests that a circular letter be sent to “all rangers, military commanders and park keepers” informing them that he is “a respectable member of society.” The adventure and travel writer, accompanied by his future wife and co-writer, Elizabeth “Betty” Grant, was planning a visit to national parks in the West.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-01-12
George B. Davis submits his remarks to Secretary of War Root, along with the record, in the case concerning Hector Arsene Robichon, First Lieutenant of the United States Army, who is charged with conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman.
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1904-01-15
Yick Nam Quan describes how much his father and his friend value the cane that has President Roosevelt’s name inscribed on it. Quan is disappointed that his gifts to Roosevelt were returned and asks if he can send them to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt and Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
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1903-12-24
James Jeffrey Roche plans to be in Washington, D.C., in January or February. Though he could not join President Roosevelt in California, everyone he spoke with along the coast admired the president. Roche hopes that Roosevelt will see William Butler Yeats when he visits Washington, D.C. Roche encloses a Boston Pilot article from eight years ago to show that he was “among the first of the prophets.”
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1903-12-04
Representative Edward James Livernash delivered a speech in the House on the hostility of the Republican Party towards labor and President Roosevelt’s acceptance of the open shop in government service.
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1904-04-05
Milton J. Green discusses the outcome of the San Francisco Mayoral election and politics in California, Washington State, Oregon, and other North Western states. Green recommends meeting with leading California Democrat, Gavin McNab. Green also relays his son, Kenneth Green’s, fond memories of meeting President Roosevelt several years before.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-11-19