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William K. Kavanaugh, President of Great-Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep Waterway Association, encloses a speech he gave in which he mentioned Theodore Roosevelt and hopes Roosevelt will read it. Kavanaugh also mentions that the people of the Mississippi Valley are still talking about Roosevelt’s visit and speech at the Memphis Convention several years ago.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-11
President Roosevelt thanks Leander W. Dutro for his letter, and remarks he enjoyed his recent visit to Memphis.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-10-23
Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett has written a book on the country life problem in the United States and Gifford Pinchot hopes for Theodore Roosevelt’s endorsement. Pinchot is pleased that Roosevelt might be able to speak at the National Conservation Congress and knows other organizations that would be anxious to hear him speak as well. Pinchot believes that the latest developments in the Pinchot-Ballinger controversy show Attorney General George W. Wickersham and President William H. Taft in a poor light.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-05-18
Several men row or pull on a raft with a sail that reads “Lakes to the Gulf Deep waterway project” following a sign “To Congress,” including William Jennings Bryan, William H. Taft, Theodore P. Shonts, and David R. Francis. President Roosevelt rows with his “big stick.”
It was a rare occasion when Edward Joseph McBride, the hyper-partisan cartoonist of the Democratic St. Louis Republic, favorably depicted Republicans as well as Democrats, office-holders and candidates, in one political cartoon’s frame. The men he pictured indeed agreed on the issue at hand, and so did the city of St. Louis itself, writ large; the issue was to broaden, clean, and manage the mighty Mississippi River on whose shore it rested.