Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Everett J. Lake
President Roosevelt is sure that Lieutenant Governor Lake saw the preposterous article in the Hartford Times based on an alleged conversation with Lake claiming that Roosevelt is trying to control Connecticut and wanted Lake to be a congressman instead of E. Stevens Henry. Roosevelt knows Lake did not say anything of the sort but is concerned about potential trouble if “so gross an absurdity” is repeated. Therefore, he asks Lake to take conservative measures to convince people that the article is false. He feels the Harvard Overseers have “acted like fools about football.”
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-01-22
