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Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary acknowledges receipt of John E. Boos’s letter and explains that Roosevelt cannot comply as he receives numerous similar requests for messages and that if he were to accept, he would have to accept all the others out of fairness.
Theodore Roosevelt explains to French Ambassador Jusserand why he communicated differently with Mr. Reed than he did with Mr. Clark. Roosevelt believes Reed will “act with entire justice and impartiality” and that he should make a personal visit to the French lines.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-03-12
President Roosevelt informs Secretary of War Wright that it was unethical to allow Fassett to re-take the exam, as the War Department knew he was colorblind. Any single waiver of a disqualifying condition only leads to bitterness from others who have been turned down.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-10-02
President Roosevelt agrees with Census Director North that a statistical report on crime that Congress directed him to make would be useful. Roosevelt does not think North should exclude any crimes from the report since facts need to be known about all types of crime, namely lynching. Roosevelt expects the statistics to be free from bias.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-11-05
President Roosevelt expresses his support of Merrill E. Gates, Jr. for the Legal Aid Society, of which Arthur von Briesen is the president. Roosevelt acknowledges that he himself is not a lawyer, but that Gates’s professional qualifications are excellent. Roosevelt comments on some of Gates’s qualifications, but ultimately tells von Briesen that he will support whatever decision is made, as long as von Briesen gives proper consideration to Gates’s qualifications himself.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-10-23
President Roosevelt approves of the motto “fair play for the workingman and a square deal to every American whether employer or employee.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-07-27
Charles W. Eede asks Theodore Roosevelt how he would feel about being robbed by corporations. He wants fair play and a square deal, but cannot compete with corrupt corporations. He includes the clipping entitled, “A Plea for Fair Play,” which states that the man who thinks he knows has more opportunity to spread lies than the man who knows. He uses the editor of Leslie’s Weekly, John A. Sleicher, as an example. Sleicher spreads information about corporations to millions of readers weekly, yet the information is not correct.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-27