Nobel, Alfred Bernhard, 1833-1896

President Roosevelt tells former Mayor Low that the idea he has suggested has already been raised by Secretary of Commerce and Labor Oscar S. Straus and National Civic Federation founder John Mitchell. Roosevelt doubts the possibility of applying the semi-official gift from the Nobel Foundation and applying it to a private enterprise like the Civic Federation. He hopes a plan can be worked out, but notes that neither his name nor Alfred Nobel’s name should be “swallowed up in any private movement.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-20

President Roosevelt thanks Emanuel Nobel for the gift, noting that he “disposed of it in a way which I believe would have pleased your lamented and illustrious uncle,” Alfred Nobel.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-14

President Roosevelt (through a telegram cabled to Assistant Secretary of State Robert Bacon) thanks Chairman Løvland for the Nobel Prize, noting that “There is no gift I could appreciate more.” Roosevelt states that after much consideration, he will donate the cash award towards establishing a “permanent Industrial Peace Committee” at Washington, D.C. as to carry out Alfred Nobel’s mission.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-10

Legislation to use President Roosevelt’s money from the 1906 Nobel Prize to establish a committee dedicated to the promotion of industrial peace.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-02-12

Remarks by William Davison Johnston, President of the Theodore Roosevelt Association, upon the presentation of the Nobel Peace Prize Medal awarded to President Theodore Roosevelt in 1906, to President Reagan at the White House in October 1982.

A photograph showing both sides of the medal awarded to Roosevelt and a photograph of Johnston and Reagan at the White House ceremony accompany the article.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

John A. Gable details President Theodore Roosevelt’s winning of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906. Gable looks at Roosevelt’s mediation of the Russo-Japanese War, his refusal to accept the prize money, and his acceptance speech in 1910. Gable discusses the distribution of the prize money to various charities during World War I, and he closes with an overview of Roosevelt’s foreign policy achievements.

A photograph of the case that enclosed the Nobel Peace Prize diploma accompanies the article.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal