Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to John Hay
President Roosevelt suggests that Secretary of State Hay write to Kentucky Governor John Crepps Wickliffe Beckham suggesting that Inspector General Noel Gaines is “obviously of unsound mind,” and should not be in a military position. Roosevelt writes that Gaines’s statement “reads like the utterance of a lunatic Fifth Monarchy man in the days of the Cromwellian Commonwealth.”
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-11-03