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Theodore Roosevelt wishes he could have been of service to the country, but Woodrow Wilson insists that he should only be a “looker-on.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1917-05-26
Theodore Roosevelt does not believe that there will be a war with Mexico, but if there were such a war, Roosevelt would feel obligated to raise a division. Roosevelt disagrees with Woodrow Wilson and Congress’s handling of the matter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1916-07-11
Theodore Roosevelt tells Annie Frances Rockwell Chaffee that if he should be allowed to raise a division, he will try to have her son with him. He also compliments the photograph of her husband, son, and grandson.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1916-07-04
Thomas Paschal Borden would like a place in Theodore Roosevelt’s division in World War I. However, President Wilson has decided to not let Roosevelt form a division, but Gifford Pinchot is recommending Borden in case this changes.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1917-05-19
Gifford Pinchot writes Theodore Roosevelt that everywhere he goes there is regret that the Wilson Administration refused Roosevelt’s offer to raise a division to fight in World War I. Pinchot thinks “the Nation itself has been double-crossed” in this matter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1917-05-22
Text of an act creating the Military Secretary’s Department and the Military Secretary’s Office of the War Department.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-01