Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William H. Taft
President Roosevelt sends Secretary of War Taft an engineering report by Lindon W. Bates regarding the Panama Canal. Roosevelt is very impressed with the work, and wants to get together the best engineers in the country to evaluate the proposals therein. Payment for Bates’s work is at the judgement of the board of engineers.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1905-03-10