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Benjamin D. Bewan, speaking on behalf of Prince Stephan of Serbia, informs William Loeb that the prince would like to call on President Roosevelt before leaving the United States. Bewan prefers meeting in Oyster Bay since the visit is unofficial and the Prince is travelling incognito under the name Count de Kragujevac.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-09-19
Uncle Sam stands on steps, holding a large folder labeled “Root’s Portfolio” containing papers labeled “Army War College, Insular Policy, Modernized Military, Coast Defenses, [and] General Staff.” He is tipping his hat and saying goodbye to Elihu Root who is holding his hat, coat, and gloves.
The short comment on this cartoon is that Elihu Root served as Secretary of War under presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. A man of credentials, accomplishments, and universal respect, he was only back in private life for a year and a half after this cartoon was drawn. Upon the death of Secretary of State John Hay in July, 1905, Roosevelt persuaded Root to serve in the cabinet’s premier seat.
President Roosevelt thanks Ambassador Reid for his letter and for the letter Mrs. Whitelaw Reid sent to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt. Roosevelt thanks Reid for his public service and personal courtesy.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-03-01
President Roosevelt thanks Marion L. Oliver for the tie she sent him. He intends to bring it with him to Africa. Roosevelt expresses gratitude for having the Oliver family with him in Washington.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-03-01
Theodore Roosevelt wants to make sure that he says good-bye to C. Hart Merriam. Merriam is one of the men in Washington, D.C., that Roosevelt most hates to leave.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1898-05-10
Lawrence F. Abbott praises President Roosevelt for being a true friend to the American people during his presidency. Abbott further praises Roosevelt’s farewell speech to his “Tennis Cabinet” and considers it the finest speech of Roosevelt’s career.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-03-02
Joseph Bucklin Bishop reports on the general feeling of the people he has recently met regarding a third term for President Roosevelt. In Falmouth, Massachusetts, there are many men of wealth touring the country, and they all support Roosevelt unequivocally. One Boston merchant said Roosevelt must run for another term because the people will have no one else, and that no one knows or cares about William H. Taft. A “retired Chicago millionaire” has been trying to convince his peers that Roosevelt stands “between them and destruction.” Bishop says that no president since George Washington has had such faith from the people. Bishop bids farewell to Roosevelt, as he is leaving soon for Panama, and tells the president not to forget him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-07-28
Ambassador Nabuco informs William Loeb that he and Mrs. Nabuco will be leaving Washington, D.C., soon. Nabuco hopes to see President Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt before leaving for Europe.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-05-25
Henry S. Pritchett explains to President Roosevelt that he has spent his time as president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology promoting respect for government positions. Pritchett encloses a copy of his farewell address, indicating that Roosevelt may wish to read it. He commends the president on his ongoing efforts to improve government administration.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-06-14
As Ambassador Cassini prepares to leave the United States, he respectfully bids farewell to President Roosevelt and wishes Roosevelt and the nation happiness and prosperity.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-07-10
Postcard with image of Theodore Roosevelt waving from the rear of a train.
1909-1914
“James Hazen Hyde, Abdul Hamid, [and] Castro” step off the earth hand in hand.
Puck took a bit of vacation in late May 1909 and devoted its front cover, tabloid-like, to three odious personalities in the news.
William H. Taft, as Dido, weeps as the ship of Aeneas labeled “T. R.” sails away toward the horizon.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1909-03-10
Theodore Roosevelt departs from the White House, leaving an infant labeled “My Policies,” wearing the same spectacles as Roosevelt and holding a small stick, in the care of William H. Taft as the maid. William Loeb, as the butler, is carrying Roosevelt’s big stick.
Cartoonist S. D. Ehrhart commemorated Theodore Roosevelt’s retirement from the presidency, and William H. Taft’s assumption of duties, with an accurate but somehow jaundiced view of the situation, for instance the depiction of President Taft as a mere nanny.
A young woman wearing bloomers says good night to a young man at the front door. The young man’s mother, also wearing bloomers and holding a newspaper or magazine called “The Advanced Woman,” has come down the stairs to ask when the young woman will be leaving. Caption: Stern Parent–Willy, isn’t that Miss Bloomers going soon? – it’s nearly eleven o’clock! / Son–Yes, Mama; she’s just saying good night!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-12-25
At a gathering of “The Undiscovered Club,” the North Pole, recently discovered by either Frederick A. Cook or Robert E. Peary, is making a tearful departure. Those gathered and awaiting discovery are “The Man in the Iron Mask, Perpetual Motion, The man who wrote Shakespeare, Fountain of Youth, South Pole, The Lost Lenore wearing a pin labeled ‘Poe’, Universal Peace, Captain Kidd’s Treasure, Honest Graft, The Great American Novel, [and] Something for Nothing.” Caption: The North Pole leaves the ranks of the Undiscovered.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1909-10-13
At the front doorstep of a house, a young man is headed for college. He is wearing a sweater with a large “Y” on it and is carrying a suitcase labeled “Harold Halfback Yale” and a football. His sobbing mother hands him a football helmet and shoulder-pads, and a little girl hands him a “First Aid Kit” and shin-guards. A dog standing with the mother and sister is also crying. In the background, a man sitting in a small horse-drawn carriage waits for the young man to finish his goodbyes. Caption: The Spartan Mother — Go, my boy!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1913-09-24
A mermaid rides on the back of a sea serpent headed out to sea at the end of the summer season at a resort. She has turned to wave goodbye to the resort staff on shore, who are in turn waving goodbye to her.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1913-09-17
Theodore Roosevelt and William H. Taft stand in the center of a gathering of Roosevelt’s “officers.” Most are dressed as colonial army officers, with Charles J. Bonaparte dressed as Napoleon and John Burroughs as a frontiersman. All but Roosevelt are crying. Caption: Repetition, one year hence, of a famous scene in Fraunce’s Tavern.
Cartoonist Louis M. Glackens drew this prophetic cartoon in March of 1908, interesting for what it does not outright say, and significant for who it does and does not show, in the group gathered around President Roosevelt.
Theodore Roosevelt tells his sister Anna Roosevelt he has been to Philadelphia to examine the Post Office and Internal Revenue Service. He also attended a farewell dinner for Bellamy Storer where he conversed with Rudyard Kipling and dined with many others as well.
1895-03-10