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Joseph Bucklin Bishop updates President Roosevelt on matters related to the railroads. Warren G. Harding believes that the president should focus on curbing railway abuses, especially rebates and private cars, stopping short of interfering with railway rates. Bishop also compliments the president on his success in the restoration of peace.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-06-14
Theodore Roosevelt has wired Warren G. Harding and Gardner with instructions not to press the amendment.
1917-05-11
Theodore Roosevelt wishes he could help but he is too busy and cannot go to Ohio. He hopes Warren G. Harding is elected governor.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-10-20
President Roosevelt tells Joseph Bucklin Bishop he will speak to Secretary of War William H. Taft at once. He is trying to figure out how to speak with Henry Clay Frick, and Roosevelt is seeing if he can communicate with him through Pennsylvania Senator Philander C. Knox. Roosevelt tells Bishop that William Loeb was told “there is not the slightest chance of the Post being sold at all.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-06-08
Andrew J. Sherrick, on behalf of the Allen County, Ohio Pioneer Society, invites Theodore Roosevelt to the society’s annual meeting to be held on August 10, 1911.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-06-15
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-10-26
Garfield, James Rudolph, 1865-1950
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
English
Curtis C. Lynd asks for an explanation for why Theodore Roosevelt is supporting Warren G. Harding’s candidacy. Harding is the chosen candidate of party boss George Barnsdale Cox. Lynd believes that Roosevelt is against machine politics and wants to know his reasoning for supporting Cox’s candidate.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-01-17
Laurence R. Veikley briefly recounts the history of Sullys Hill National Game Preserve, beginning with its creation as a national park, subsequent establishment as a simultaneous game preserve, and eventual removal from the national park system. Veikley additionally mentions the various expansions and contractions of the area’s borders.
1983-03-03
English
A timeline of major milestones and events at Sullys Hill National Game Preserve from 1867 to 1995.
1995
Stacy A. Cordery, a biographer of Alice Roosevelt Longworth, reacts to David H. Burton’s recollection of his February 1970 visit with Longworth. Cordery notes that Burton’s story confirms some of her impressions of Longworth: that she tried to steer interviews to topics she favored, and that she despised Warren G. Harding. Cordery also asserts that Burton’s piece rightly points out Longworth’s kindness and generosity which are often ignored in favor of emphasizing her biting wit and disdain for those she did not like or respect. A photograph of Cordery appears at the center of her essay.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2010
David H. Burton recounts his two hour conversation with Alice Roosevelt Longworth of February 1970. Burton notes that the two talked about a biography of Warren G. Harding, Burton’s latest research project on Theodore Roosevelt, and Longworth’s visits to the White House during the presidencies of Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon. Photographs of Burton and Longworth accompany the text.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2010
In accepting the Theodore Roosevelt Distinguished Service Medal in 1956, Hermann Hagedorn recalls prior ceremonies involving Presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge, and he lists many of the previous winners of the medal. He quotes extensively from remarks made by Elihu Root about Theodore Roosevelt, and he closes his address by quoting Roosevelt as a summons to meet contemporary challenges.
A photograph of Hagedorn and Leslie C. Stratton on Theodore Roosevelt Island supplements the address along with a text box acknowledging the support of the National Park Service for the Theodore Roosevelt Association’s annual meeting.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1956
Obituary of Alice Roosevelt Longworth, the first born and last to die of Theodore Roosevelt’s children. The obituary details her celebrity status during her father’s presidency, her wedding to Congressman Nicholas Longworth, and his career in the House of Representatives. The notice also examines Alice Longworth’s decades long position as a Washington, D.C. power broker and socialite, and it notes her friendship with presidents, journalists, and celebrities. Her work in compiling an anthology of American poetry, her relationship with Eleanor Roosevelt, and her efforts to memorialize her father are also covered. The obituary notes her love of reading, acerbic wit, and sense of humor.
Four photographs accompany the article: the first shows Alice in 1904; the second shows the entire Roosevelt family, Theodore and Edith Roosevelt and all of their children and Alice’s husband, Nicholas Longworth, at the White House; the third shows Alice with her sister Ethel Derby and her brother Archibald Roosevelt at Theodore Roosevelt Island in Washington, D.C.; and the fourth is of Alice late in life.
A listing of the officers of the Theodore Roosevelt Association and the members of its executive, finance, and Theodore Roosevelt birthplace committees is included in the article.
List of animals donated to the National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C. by Presidents of the United States. Twelve presidents from Grover Cleveland to Richard Nixon are on the list. Between January 1902 and November 1909, Theodore Roosevelt made twenty-seven donations of thirty-eight individual animals and birds, including thirteen opossums, to the zoo.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1980
Robert C. Kimberly provides a detailed examination of the various afflictions and ailments that marked the life of Theodore Roosevelt from his childhood to his death in January 1919. He describes Roosevelt’s struggles with asthma and poor eyesight as a youth, his battle to control his weight, and details many of the injuries he suffered while living out the strenuous life. Kimberly delves into the serious leg injury Roosevelt suffered in a carriage accident in 1902, his decades long struggle with malaria, his near death experience on the River of Doubt expedition, and the treatment he received after the October 1912 assassination attempt. He notes the many doctors who treated Roosevelt as well as the implications his health problems had for his wife Edith.
A listing of the officers of the Theodore Roosevelt Association is found on page three of the article and an advertisement for the Roosevelt Savings Bank is found at its conclusion.
Alan R. Havig explores the ways in which Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) used the memory and legacy of Theodore Roosevelt (TR) to advance his own political career and causes. In doing so, he actually helped burnish the reputation of Theodore Roosevelt as a Progressive reformer. He looks closely at the 1920 campaign when FDR, the Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate, attacked the Republican nominee, Warren G. Harding, for denouncing TR and the Progressives in 1912. Havig examines how FDR attacked the Republicans for abandoning TR’s Progressive legacy and how FDR’s adoption of TR’s mantle led to a long feud between the two wings of the Roosevelt family. He also looks at how FDR supported the construction of the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Hall at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
Havig also looks at how FDR used TR in 1936 to argue that the latter’s Square Deal had been a predecessor to his New Deal program. FDR, on the occasion of the dedication of the Roosevelt Memorial Hall in January 1936, quoted extensively from TR to demonstrate that he would have supported FDR’s extensive use of government to address the problems faced by the nation in the 1930s.
The “Book Notes” column has two separate articles dealing with the historiography of Theodore Roosevelt. In “Paperbacks on T.R.,” John A. Gable looks at seven works, mostly biographies and mostly published in the 1960s, about Theodore Roosevelt and notes the contributions that each makes to the study of Roosevelt. Frederick W. Marks reviews ‘A Good Innings’: The Private Papers of Viscount Lee of Fareham in “A Special English Friend: Arthur Hamilton Lee.” Marks traces the history of the Roosevelt-Lee friendship, examines the editing of the volume by Alan Clark, and remarks on Lee’s descriptions of prominent Americans.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1977
A collection of executive orders chronicling the establishment of a variety of bird sanctuaries and nature preserves across the United States.
Unknown
Sheet music for “America Admires Brother Harding,” which celebrates the election of Warren G. Harding. The cover features an illustration of Harding with historical figures; Christopher Columbus, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas A. Edison, and Theodore Roosevelt.
Dr. Danny O. Crew Theodore Roosevelt Sheet Music Collection
1921
Sheet music for “Harding’s the Man for Me,” a campaign song for Senator Harding’s 1920 presidential campaign. The cover features a photograph of Harding along with illustrations of Theodore Roosevelt, William McKinley, and Abraham Lincoln.
Dr. Danny O. Crew Theodore Roosevelt Sheet Music Collection
1920