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Richard Harding Davis wrote to President Roosevelt, praising the information sent to Harding by Roosevelt. Harding also praised the professionalism of the diplomatic corps under the Roosevelt administration.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-01-07
Theodore Roosevelt responds to a Boston Transcript clipping sent to him by Quiney Ewing. Roosevelt asserts that the statements about William Jennings Bryan attributed to Roosevelt in the editorial are “sheer invention.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-07-26
Theodore Roosevelt is pleased to hear that Virginia’s Fredericksburg Journal, edited by Thomas S. Forsyth, supports the third party Progressive campaign.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-07-27
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary writes to Charles F. Emery about political campaign media coverage in New York City.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-06-19
Theodore Roosevelt attempts to write Sir George Otto a “journal letter” of his European trip as Otto suggested but gives up because Roosevelt finds it difficult to relate the experiences without “continually talking about [himself].” Roosevelt is instead more interested in Otto and England.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-24
Theodore Roosevelt is no longer with The Outlook but Roosevelt ensures William T. Hornaday that they will support him in every shape and way. Roosevelt suggests that Hornaday personally write to them.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-08-20
President Roosevelt enjoyed William Sidney Rossiter’s article in The Atlantic Monthly and looks forward to discussing it when he returns to Washington, D.C.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-08-03
President Roosevelt is astounded by the degree of falsehood contained in an article in Robert J. Collier’s weekly magazine about the Department of the Interior. Roosevelt would like to opportunity to explain the true situation to Collier or Mark Sullivan.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-02-14
President Roosevelt says he has received a letter from Dr. Albert Shaw explaining that he never said Roosevelt believes Cyrus Packard Walbridge to be a better candidate for Governor of Missouri than Joseph Wingate Folk. Roosevelt reproduces a part of Shaw’s letter for Robert J. Collier, which explains the situation. Roosevelt emphasizes that while Collier may show this correspondence to Norman Hapgood and Lincoln Steffens, he does not want the matter discussed in public and cannot understand how anyone could have misunderstood him in the first place.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-10-27
President Roosevelt wishes to return Standard Oil Company’s campaign donation immediately, especially since it appears that the company’s “political attitude” is of great public importance. Additionally, Standard Oil is against the United States Bureau of Corporations, which Roosevelt considers one of his most important accomplishments. Roosevelt does not want any public announcement made about the situation.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-10-27
Commissioner of Pensions Ware shares with President Roosevelt a letter he is sending to Congressmen and state governors that corrects information printed in the Washington Post.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-06-18
Two trustees of the Theodore Roosevelt Association, Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin and Walter Lippmann, recently died. The obituary notes that McKeldin was named after Roosevelt and that he was both Mayor of Baltimore and Governor of Maryland. It discusses Lippmann’s journalism career and his admiration for Roosevelt.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1975
President Roosevelt has had meetings with journalists looking to expose public graft and corruption, but has become frustrated with them because of their “unbridled license and unfair denunciation” of many people in public office which has failed to have any merit. Roosevelt is expected to speak out against these sorts of accusations at his Decoration Day speech to the Army and Navy Union at Norfolk, Virginia. The author expects Roosevelt to speak regarding his own belief that most people are honest, and to challenge the writers who have attacked people in public office, despite the fact that his own administration has not been the target of these journalists.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-04-07