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President Theodore Roosevelt thanks Gifford Pinchot for the suggestions he sent and will use Pinchot’s speech to the National Irrigation Congress in his message. Roosevelt wonders how the press would have reacted if he, rather than Pinchot, had made the remarks about a tariff on lumber.
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1907-09-16
George C. Stewart testifies to his experiences with corruption in the General Land Office.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-03
President Roosevelt tells Andrew Carnegie about the upcoming Conference of Governors, which will have its purpose defined by the Inland Waterways Commission. Roosevelt invites Carnegie to attend in view of his knowledge of the nation’s mineral products, and says that his wish that Carnegie participate has been strengthened due to a recent conversation he had with Judge Joseph Buffington, who spoke about the importance of taking stock of the nation’s supply of iron ore.
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1908-03-04
President Roosevelt tells former President Cleveland about the upcoming Conference of Governors on the topic of conservation of natural resources, and invites him to take part.
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1908-03-04
President Roosevelt appoints an Inland Waterways Commission and requests that Representative Burton serve as chairman of the commission, along with Senator Francis G. Newlands, Senator William Warner, Representative John Hollis Bankhead, General Alexander Mackenzie, Dr. W. J. McGee, Frederick Haynes Newell, Gifford Pinchot, and Herbert Knox Smith. He explains the purpose of the commission to develop a “comprehensive plan for the improvement and control of the river systems of the United States.” The same letter was sent to the other prospective appointees.
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1907-03-14
Richard Watson Gilder of Century is pleased with what President Roosevelt said about his memoirs, and hopes that he will start writing them after he finishes his articles on big game. He also suggests Roosevelt making a “survey of the globe” and writing for Century. Gilder informs Roosevelt that Robert Underwood Johnson will be attending the conference on conservation on behalf of the magazine.
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1908-05-07
Gifford B. Pinchot, Gifford Pinchot’s son and only child, challenges assertions made by Stephen R. Fox in an article, “Gifford Pinchot and His Place in the American Conservation Movement,” that appeared in the Summer, 1987 issue of the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal. Gifford B. Pinchot argues that Fox’s claims that Gifford Pinchot had no original ideas and that his works were written by others does not withstand scrutiny. Gifford B. Pinchot cites his father’s invention of fishing gear and says that he had a secretary and research assistant, but that he did his own writing. Fox responds by writing that Gifford Pinchot did not produce his own writing when he was working as the nation’s chief forester, and he quotes the historian Samuel P. Hays who says that Pinchot did a lot of damage to the conservation movement.
Three photographs of Gifford Pinchot fly fishing illustrate the exchange of letters.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1988
William Dinwiddie presents to Gardiner G. Hubbard a formal statement accusing ethnologist Frank H. Cushing of fraud. Dinwiddie attests that Cushing painted a shell found on an 1895 expedition to the Florida Keys and has been passing off the artifact as genuine. He further claims that Cushing did the same with an artifact from an expedition in Arizona. Dinwiddie states that when he attempted to report the fraud to the Bureau of American Ethnology, the Bureau refused to investigate and summarily dismissed him from his position.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-02-15