Conrad, Kent, 1948-

Brief report and photo album from the 2012 annual meeting of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) held in Chicago, Illinois. The report notes the highlights of the weekend meeting, including the various tours of sites in Chicago, the conferring of awards, and information on the symposium. The report is supplemented by forty-three color photographs of the Chicago skyline and the guests, speakers, and dignitaries at the meeting. 

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Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2013

Tweed Roosevelt recounts his role, beginning in the fall of 1998, to secure the Medal of Honor for Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt admits that he was initially skeptical about the effort, but he decided to volunteer and became a lobbyist to secure passage of the necessary enabling legislation. Roosevelt highlights the various members of the House and Senate who helped secure the bill’s passage, highlighting the roles of Congressmen Rick A. Lazio, Paul F. McHale, Steven E. Buyer, and especially, Senator Kent Conrad of North Dakota. He also notes how the bill’s passage was threatened by the impeachment proceedings swirling around President Bill Clinton. Roosevelt describes several White House visits, including meetings with Clinton and President George W. Bush.

Twelve photographs appear in the article, nine of which include Tweed Roosevelt, and three each featuring Clinton and Bush. A Frederic Remington painting, a letter, and two documents related to the conferral of the Medal of Honor also accompany the article.

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Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Report on the Theodore Roosevelt Association’s Bertha B. Rose Award. The report includes a biography of Bertha Benkard Rose that emphasizes her work in historic preservation, especially at Sagamore Hill. The report also includes brief notices about the twelve past winners of the award dating back to 1982, and it highlights the work of the 2003 recipient, Michael L. Manson. A text box lists all of the winners of the Rose Award, and the report also includes a list of the seventeen colleges and universities that granted Theodore Roosevelt honorary degrees from 1899 to 1917. A paragraph on Roosevelt’s history with New York City concludes the section.

A photograph of Manson with the commander of the USS Theodore Roosevelt accompanies the report.

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Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

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.

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Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Announcement that John A. Gable and William Henry Harbaugh will both be awarded the Theodore Roosevelt Distinguished Service Medal posthumously at the 2005 annual dinner of the Theodore Roosevelt Association. The announcement lists the medal presenters, the honorary chairs for the event, and the menu.

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Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2005

This edition of “News & Notes” opens with the announcement that a conference scheduled to mark the centennial of Theodore Roosevelt’s presidency had been cancelled because of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The section notes that the long awaited second volume of a biography of Roosevelt by Edmund Morris was scheduled for release in November 2001 and that Sylvia Jukes Morris’s biography of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt was to be reissued in paperback. “News & Notes” highlights Roosevelt’s induction into the Hall of Heroes at the Pentagon, the conferring of a historic preservation award to the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA), and the announcement of the winners of the TRA’s Rose Award. Obituaries for Tilly DeVries and Lion DeVries of the TRA and a summary of this issue’s book reviews complete the section.

 

Three photographs from ceremonies celebrating Roosevelt’s Medal of Honor award appear in the section. 

Report on the joint history conference, “The Big Stick and the Square Deal: The Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt,” and annual meeting of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) held in Buffalo, New York, in October 2002. The report has three parts: a report on the conference and meeting; a full-page of thirteen photographs showing speakers, attendees, and dignitaries; and a full-page listing of patrons, supporters, and sponsors of the weekend’s events. The report highlights the conferring of the TRA’s Bertha B. Rose Award and its Distinguished Service Medal. The Rose Award was given to three members of Congress who helped secure Theodore Roosevelt’s Medal of Honor while the Distinguished Service Medal was given to the crew of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt. 

 

An additional photograph on the first page of the report shows eleven of the conference speakers.

Report on the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) held in Buffalo, New York, on October 19, 2002. The article notes the various reports given by officers of the TRA, and it covers the election of a slate of officers as well as members of the Board of Trustees and the Advisory Board. The report highlights the TRA’s approval of efforts to expand the Elkhorn Ranch site in North Dakota, use of the TRA website, and changes to the association’s by-laws.

 

Three photographs supplement the report, including two winners of the Bertha B. Rose Award, Paul F. McHale and Kent Conrad, honored for their work in securing Theodore Roosevelt the Medal of Honor. An advertisement for Liberty Title Agency of Garden City, New York, appears at the end of the report. 

Report on the presentation of Theodore Roosevelt’s Medal of Honor by Tweed Roosevelt to President George W. Bush for permanent display at the White House. The report notes the long effort to secure the medal for Colonel Roosevelt, and it lists some of the key members of Congress who helped secure legislation enabling the conferring of the medal. The report notes the national tour made by Roosevelt’s medal, and it highlights the remarks made by Tweed Roosevelt and Bush at the ceremony. It lists the twenty-two members of the Roosevelt family and sixteen members of the Theodore Roosevelt Association who attended the White House ceremony. 

 

A photograph of Tweed Roosevelt and Bush accompanies the text. 

Report on the successful effort to pass legislation authorizing President Bill Clinton to award the Medal of Honor to Theodore Roosevelt for his actions at the Battle of San Juan Hill, July 1, 1898. The report highlights the diligent efforts of Congressmen Paul F. McHale and Rick A. Lazio to pass the legislation in the House of Representatives and notes the work of Senators Kent Conrad and Robert C. Smith in the Senate. The report also notes the lobbying efforts of the membership of the Theodore Roosevelt Association, in particular that of Tweed Roosevelt, and it details the opposition of the U.S. Army to the conferring of the medal.

 

Photographs of McHale and Lazio, along with two illustrations of the Rough Riders, supplement the text.

Report on the successful effort to posthumously award the Medal of Honor to Theodore Roosevelt for his actions during the Battle of San Juan on July 1, 1898. The report details the history of the efforts to secure the medal for Roosevelt dating back to the aftermath of the Spanish-American War, and it closely examines the renewed efforts since 1996, highlighting the work of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) and numerous members of Congress. The report also covers the White House ceremonies of January 16, 2001 presided over by President Bill Clinton, and it includes coverage of the heroics of Andrew Jackson Smith who was also posthumously awarded the medal for his actions during the Civil War. A history of the Rough Rider regiment, Clinton’s remarks at the ceremony, and the citation accompanying Roosevelt’s medal are included in the report. 

 

Five photographs from the medal ceremony and two of Roosevelt appear in the article.