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Theodore Roosevelt writes his son Kermit and daughter-in-law Belle to say how proud he is of them and all his children. He criticizes President Woodrow Wilson and says he will do all he can to secure military posts for Kermit, Archie, Ted and Quentin. Roosevelt gives an update on Mother and Ethel.
1917-05-31
Secretary to the President Loeb encloses the requested signed quotations from President Roosevelt. The quotations are on Roosevelt’s opinion of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and national memory of the Civil War more broadly, praise of white backwoodsmen’s use of guns and axes in North American western expansion and imperialism, ideal gender roles for men and women, and the need for national commitment to “the life of strenuous endeavor.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-03-09
President Roosevelt appreciated Bessie Van Vorst’s article entitled “The Woman Who Toils” and compares the women in the article to the “unemployed rich.” Roosevelt believes that these groups threaten the United States with “race suicide” and he advocates traditional values of home and family life.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-10-18
Leather postcard showing Theodore Roosevelt holding two babies. Roosevelt is carrying another two babies in the pockets of a large overcoat that has been colored red.
This postcard addresses Theodore Roosevelt’s views on race decadence and family size. Roosevelt was against birth control and believed that it was the duty of white American citizens to have large families to prevent the decline of the white race in the United States.