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President Lyndon B. Johnson stands with Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall and Alice Roosevelt Longworth, during the dedication ceremony for the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial on Theodore Roosevelt Island. In the foreground the band plays while the audience stands.
Theodore Roosevelt Island National Memorial
1967-10-27
President Lyndon B. Johnson stands with Alice Roosevelt Longworth on stage at the dedication ceremony for the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial. Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall stands behind them.
Theodore Roosevelt Island National Memorial
1967-10-27
Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall exchanges some words with a gentleman while at the podium during the dedication of the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial on Theodore Roosevelt Island. Sitting on stage to the right of the podium are President Lyndon B. Johnson and Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Theodore Roosevelt’s oldest daughter.
Theodore Roosevelt Island National Memorial
1967-10-27
Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall speaks at the dedication ceremony for the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial on Theodore Roosevelt Island. Sitting on the stage to the right of the podium are President Lyndon B. Johnson and Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Theodore Roosevelt’s oldest child.
Theodore Roosevelt Island National Memorial
1967-10-27
Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall speaks during the dedication of the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial on Theodore Roosevelt Island. Sitting on stage behind him and to the right of the podium are President Lyndon B. Johnson and Theodore Roosevelt’s oldest child, Alice Roosevelt Longworth.
Theodore Roosevelt Island National Memorial
1967-10-27
President Lyndon B. Johnson looks on as the 17 foot Theodore Roosevelt statue, designed by Eric Gugler and sculpted by Paul Manship, is unveiled to the public.
Theodore Roosevelt Island National Memorial
1967-10-27
President Lyndon B. Johnson speaks at the dedication ceremony for the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial on Theodore Roosevelt Island. Theodore Roosevelt’s oldest child, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, sits on stage next to the empty chair.
Theodore Roosevelt Island National Memorial
1967-10-27
President Lyndon B. Johnson speaks at the dedication ceremony for the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial on Theodore Roosevelt Island.
Theodore Roosevelt Island National Memorial
1967-10-27
President Lyndon B. Johnson speaks at the dedication ceremony for the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial on Theodore Roosevelt Island.
Theodore Roosevelt Island National Memorial
1967-10-27
President Lyndon B. Johnson speaks at the dedication of the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial on Theodore Roosevelt Island. Theodore Roosevelt’s oldest child, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, sits next to the empty seat on the stage.
Theodore Roosevelt Island National Memorial
1967-10-27
President Johnson speaks at the dedication ceremony for the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial on Theodore Roosevelt Island.
Theodore Roosevelt Island National Memorial
1967-10-27
Members of the band at the dedication ceremony for the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial on Theodore Roosevelt Island listen to the speaker at the podium. President Lyndon B. Johnson sits on stage, second to right of the podium.
Theodore Roosevelt Island National Memorial
1967-10-27
Band at the dedication ceremony for the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial on Theodore Roosevelt Island. President Lyndon B. Johnson sits on the stage, second to the right of the podium.
Theodore Roosevelt Island National Memorial
1967-10-27
President Lyndon B. Johnson listens to speaker while on stage at the dedication ceremony for the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial on Theodore Roosevelt Island. Theodore Roosevelt’s oldest child, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, sits to the right of Johnson.
Theodore Roosevelt Island National Memorial
1967-10-27
Gregory A. Wynn provides the backstory to a rare item from his Theodore Roosevelt collection. Wynn describes a handbill produced at the time of the Republican convention of 1912 in Chicago that sarcastically claimed that Roosevelt would walk on the waters of Lake Michigan. Wynn examines the biblical roots of the handbill’s message and notes that Roosevelt’s detractors would have produced and endorsed its message. Wynn highlights President Lyndon B. Johnson’s invoking the handbill at the dedication of Theodore Roosevelt Island in 1967.
A photograph of Wynn, a photograph of the Roosevelt statue on Theodore Roosevelt Island, and a full page reproduction of the handbill illustrate the essay. A text box with the mission statement of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) appears at the end of the feature.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2014
Alan R. Havig examines the effort of the Roosevelt Memorial Association (RMA) to secure a site on the Washington, D.C., mall to erect a memorial to Theodore Roosevelt. Havig argues that it was not the grandiose design by architect John Russell Pope that doomed the proposal, but that many in and out of Congress felt that constructing a memorial to Roosevelt in the 1920s was too soon after his death. Other critics argued that Roosevelt had not yet earned a place among the memorials to George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Havig notes that Roosevelt, while denied a monument in the nation’s capital, would gain a memorial on Theodore Roosevelt Island in 1967, and he would earn a place on South Dakota’s Mount Rushmore among the figures that he was deemed unworthy of joining in the 1920s.
Four illustrations, three photographs of memorials to Roosevelt, and the logo of the Theodore Roosevelt Association populate the essay.
Theodore Roosevelt was the first president to come to office after the death of a predecessor and then be subsequently elected in his own right. Several other vice-presidents had previously entered office after the death of a president, but were not elected to the office. After Roosevelt, several other vice-presidents have come to office following the death of a president, and were subsequently elected.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1986
Article about the visit of President Ronald Reagan to Theodore Roosevelt Island on July 11, 1984. The article focuses on the history of the island since it was purchased by the Theodore Roosevelt Association in 1931. It also discusses the natural history of the island and the events held there to mark the 125th anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt’s birth.
A photograph of Reagan seated at a desk in front of a statue of Roosevelt supplements the text.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1984
Much of this edition of the “News and Notes” section revisits and elaborates on articles published in this issue of the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal. “The TR Exhibit at the Johnson Library” quotes from the remarks made by William Davison Johnston, President of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA), at the library, notes the gifts given by the TRA to Lady Bird Johnson, and promotes the exhibit’s catalogue. The section also provides excerpts from a letter written by the leadership of the TRA to President Ronald Reagan thanking him for visiting the graves of General Theodore Roosevelt and Quentin Roosevelt in June 1984, and it notes that this issue of the journal is dedicated to Jean Schermerhorn Roosevelt.
The section also touches on some of the awards given to high school students by the TRA and highlights talks on Roosevelt presented at Lamar University in Texas and at Sagamore Hill. It also revisits the TRA Police Award ceremony in New York City and cites the contributions of Paul Russell Cutright and the National Geographic Society to the article on President Roosevelt’s conservation record.
An illustration of a bronze medallion depicting Theodore Roosevelt, two photographs of Lady Bird Johnson, and a photograph of Roosevelt speaking are found in the section.
History of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) that chronicles the TRA’s work to preserve historic sites associated with Theodore Roosevelt and its work in collecting documents, providing natural history research grants, and publishing books and a journal on Roosevelt.
A photograph of Theodore Roosevelt seated at a desk accompanies the article.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1983