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Ben H. Thompson acknowledges support by the Medora Chamber of Commerce of H.R. 8538, a bill to acquire the Maltese Cross Ranch and create a memorial for Theodore Roosevelt.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1940-03-23
President Roosevelt gladly accepts the invitation to join the committee that will properly commemorate the birthplace of John Calvin.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-05-22
President Roosevelt will not attend the Memorial Day commemoration at Indianapolis unless the people who organized the statue of General Henry Ware Lawton and those representing the Grand Army of the Republic reconcile their differences. Roosevelt tells Vice President Fairbanks that the veterans of the Spanish-American War should give precedence to those of the Civil War, since the latter conflict was of “infinitely greater nature” than the former and they are much older. Fairbanks should not make this public, but “any celebration of Memorial Day must be primarily a Grand Army celebration.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-04-16
Secretary to the President Loeb encloses the requested signed quotations from President Roosevelt. The quotations are on Roosevelt’s opinion of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and national memory of the Civil War more broadly, praise of white backwoodsmen’s use of guns and axes in North American western expansion and imperialism, ideal gender roles for men and women, and the need for national commitment to “the life of strenuous endeavor.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-03-09
President Roosevelt tells Solon Hannibal Borglum that he likes the statue of William Owen O’Neill very much, and he has captured O’Neill’s spirit perfectly. He thinks a scene of the Rough Riders in action would be great for the bas-relief.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-29
James H. McGuiness recently visited with Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, whose remarks about Theodore Roosevelt inspired him to send a tribute he wrote in memory of his friend Edward Henry Harriman, who admired Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-08-01
Addie M. C. Dupree tells Theodore Roosevelt of a recently-established memorial fund in honor of Mingonette Violett Whelen to purchase a house for an organization of which she was a part. Dupree hopes that Roosevelt might be able to send a contribution to this fund.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-03-10
Andrew Carnegie explains the complications of his donation to Morningside College in memory of Senator Dolliver.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-01
Lewis R. Stegman sees President Roosevelt’s upcoming Memorial Day address as an opportunity to promote “patriotic sentiments” that can be useful during the upcoming Presidential election. Stegman identifies conservative Democrats who support Roosevelt. He discusses Roosevelt’s omission of Civil War General George B. McClellan’s name during the monument dedication at Antietam battlefield.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-05-06
President Franklin D. Roosevelt is filmed speaking to a crowd from a podium at the American Museum of Natural History. Archival footage shows construction of the Panama Canal, Theodore Roosevelt delivering speeches, and his hunting expedition in Africa.
Sherman Grinberg Film Collection
1936-01-19
President Franklin D. Roosevelt is introduced to a crowd which rises and applauds for him, and he begins to speak about Theodore Roosevelt.
Sherman Grinberg Film Collection
1936-01-19
A group of Boy Scouts of America make their annual pilgrimage to the gravesite of Theodore Roosevelt. Some are seen marching in a procession, carrying U.S. flags. Daniel Carter Beard, Scout Commissioner, is helped up the steps by Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. and others. Beard lays a wreath. Footage of President Roosevelt speaking is superimposed over his headstone. A number of other brief segments follow, including young men and women posing for a photograph, a man and a woman talking, and a large number of people–mostly children–exiting a house.
Sherman Grinberg Film Collection
1923-10-23
Boy Scouts and others march in a procession honoring the memory of Theodore Roosevelt. Boy Scout Founder Daniel Carter Beard and others lay wreaths at the gravesite, and a Boy Scout blows a bugle as others listen with their hats held over their hearts. A close-up shot shows the inscription on the headstone.
Sherman Grinberg Film Collection
1929
Daniel Carter Beard, founder of the Sons of Daniel Boone and Boy Scout leader, leads the annual Boy Scout memorial ceremony at the gravesite of Theodore Roosevelt. He is surrounded by Boy Scouts, some dressed as Native Americans. A bugler blows while standing in front of the headstone.
Sherman Grinberg Film Collection
1931-10-24
1902 printing of Proceedings of February 14, 1878, Union Club Meeting in New York City remembering the good works and character of Theodore Roosevelt, Senior. The proceedings include a review of events by William E. Dodge Jr. and a letter, read at the meeting, from Dodge to Joseph Hodges Choate.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1878