Your TR Source
Theodore Roosevelt thanks B. S. Orcutt for his letter. He is glad that Orcutt liked what he wrote about Mexico, and he was amused by what Orcutt said about journalist William Bayard Hale. Roosevelt is returning the enclosure, which he found very interesting.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914-12-12
Theodore Roosevelt introduces Albert J. Beveridge. Beveridge’s politics are very similar to Britain’s Liberal Party. He is studying the situation of the Great War and will be writing about it for Collier’s Weekly.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914-12-04
Theodore Roosevelt asks if William H. Muldoon of The Brooklyn Citizen would like to meet at The Outlook office or at Oyster Bay.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-11-19
President Roosevelt will do what he can to help Judson C. Welliver.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-18
President Roosevelt tells Melville Elijah Stone that “all that can be done against my will” is for the correspondents to go to Mombasa or Nairobi with Roosevelt, and then meet him again at Khartoum. Roosevelt is not particularly bothered by this, but it is a minor inconvenience. He does not want any reporters with him on his actual safari.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-05
President Roosevelt clarifies a statement he previously made to Melville Elijah Stone, of the Associated Press, regarding his willingness to speak to newspapermen after leaving the presidency. While Roosevelt would not wish to speak to a newspaperman for publication, he will not avoid his friends and colleagues who work in the profession.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-04
President Roosevelt thanks Harry Persons Taber for the volume, and notes that it is sad for a man like Eugene R. White to die in his prime, when his best work has just begun.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-10-17
President Roosevelt does not object to the publication of any of the pages that Rear Admiral A. T. Mahan sent to him, and he returns them now. He thinks that what Mahan says about the misconduct of the press in their handling of a certain matter is of real interest.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-07-10
President Roosevelt has heard that the correspondent whose removal from the Atlantic Fleet was recommended by Admiral Robley D. Evans is habitually drunk onboard, and his behavior has been “emphatically condemned” by other reporters. Roosevelt thinks he should be removed.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-05-22
Responding to a letter from Arthur Hamilton Lee, President Roosevelt notes that A. Maurice Low was blacklisted from access to the White House or other governmental agencies after he printed slanderous material. Roosevelt is surprised that Fabian Ware keeps Low on the staff of London’s Morning Post. Roosevelt agrees to have Fülöp László paint his portrait. Roosevelt also informs Lee about international relations between the United States and Canada, particularly with reference to immigration from Japan. He recounts discussions he has had with William Lyon Mackenzie King on this subject, and what the position of the United States is on the matter–namely, that working class Japanese immigrants should be kept out of English-speaking countries, and that working class immigrants from English-speaking countries should be kept out of Japan.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-02-02
President Roosevelt thanks John R. Carter for the clippings he sent. Roosevelt says that reporter A. Maurice Low was so untruthful that Roosevelt eventually had to tell Low that he cannot see him anymore. Roosevelt enjoyed seeing Carter’s daughter, Caroline Mildred Carter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-01-27
President Roosevelt always reads Richard Harding Davis’s writing. Roosevelt finds Davis’s article to be appalling, so he has forwarded it to Secretary of State Elihu Root to obtain further information from the United States consul.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-06-27
President Roosevelt asks United States Representative Bennet if he had considered Morton E. Crane for Secretary of the United States Immigration Commission. Roosevelt recommends Crane and adds that it could be useful that Crane is a “correspondent of a California paper.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-03-12
President Roosevelt introduces Harold Howland of the Outlook to the American representatives in Cuba. He requests Howland have access to information, except for intel sensitive to the military.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-09-27
President Roosevelt authorizes Secretary of War Taft to use funds to stable the cavalry at Boise, Idaho as General Fred C. Ainsworth mentioned. Roosevelt additionally comments on several appointments, saying he believes that Walston H. Brown should be allowed to carry out his proposal, that he has decided to appoint James Shanklin Harlan to the Interstate Commerce Commission, and that he is inclined to appoint Horace H. Lurton, which will necessitate appointing a new Circuit Court Judge. Roosevelt also writes at length about some recent articles by Poultney Bigelow which contain some “slanderous falsehood,” but about which he believes some response should be made.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-08-17
President Roosevelt thanks Melville Elijah Stone for the letter of explanation but believes that if Elmer E. Paine is replaced as a reporter in the White House before the Senate votes to confirm Benjamin F. Barnes’s nomination, it will be difficult to convince people that the change was not made because of the Mrs. Morris incident earlier in the year. If Stone still feels that Paine should be replaced, Roosevelt suggests waiting a few weeks before taking action.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-05-10
President Roosevelt writes to Melville Elijah Stone because he has heard a rumor that Elmer E. Paine is to be replaced as a reporter at the White House because of his truthful reporting on the “Mrs. Morris affair.” Roosevelt defends Paine and his reporting and makes it known that he “should feel in the strongest way his change under these circumstances.” Roosevelt feels that Paine’s removal would signal that reporters should not report the truth and does not want them to be punished for being honest.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-05-08
President Roosevelt praises Lindsay Denison for his upcoming article, which Roosevelt has received a proof of. He believes that Denision’s writing will show the situation as it really is, which in turn will help the government make improvements.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-03-23
William Loeb is pleased to add Juliette M. Babbit and her husband, Charles H. Babbitt, to the list of newspaper correspondents.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-12-29
President Roosevelt sends Robert J. Collier copies of two letters that he received from the correspondent of the Kansas City Star from Missouri. Roosevelt’s letters to Collier are being used by Samuel Hopkins Adams to try to harm Roosevelt during the final moments of the campaign. Roosevelt states that he is in favor of the Republican ticket in Missouri, as he is in every state, but never made a comparison between the Republican candidate Joseph Wingate Folk and his opponent Cyrus Packard Walbridge. He asks that Collier keep the matter to himself, as someone, whether Adams or someone else, apparently hopes to influence the election in Missouri, as well as the presidential election itself.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-10-29