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Columbia University President Butler invites President Roosevelt to speak at a Teacher’s Conference in Asbury Park, New Jersey, in July of 1905.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-10-11
Abbreviated form of Theodore Roosevelt’s speech at the Fourth of July celebration held in Dickinson, Dakota Territory on July 4, 1886. Roosevelt asks the crowd to remember that Americans have duties as well as rights and privileges, and he makes a point of telling his listeners that he is proud to be a westerner.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1886-07-04
President Roosevelt eats and then speaks to a crowd who have gathered to hear him. From another camera position, the crowd bids him farewell as he and his party enter a horse-drawn carriage and leave the vicinity.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1903-07-04
Film of French actress, Sarah Bernhardt, speaking at Prospect Park, New York, July 4, 1917, on behalf of French-American cooperation in the war effort. Addressing more than 50,000 people gathered around a decorated music platform, Bernhardt stands and speaks from an open touring car parked in front of the platform. Medium close shot of Bernhardt speaking and gesturing, with man who may be her personal physician, Dr. Felix Marot, and woman who is probably her secretary and translator, Miss Elizabeth Ormsby, seated in car.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1917
The New England Society of Cleveland and the Western Reserve requests a proclamation from President Roosevelt that will “renew the lessons in liberty and patriotism associated with Independence Day.” The society is concerned that there is so little made of Independence day and want to encourage patriotism. They argue that even new citizens of foreign birth are really surprised that so little is made of independence.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-04-15
Samuel D. Hodgdon has received Vice President Roosevelt’s denial of the slanderous statement and will attempt to stop the circulation of the statement within his organization. Hodgdon invites Roosevelt to make the principal address at next year’s Fourth of July celebration in St. Louis, Missouri.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-08-24