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David C. Imboden asks if Theodore Roosevelt would finance and invest in the publication of The People to enable its circulation to the public.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-06
Nicholas Murray Butler is giving President Roosevelt the schedule of his upcoming trip along with the address where he can be reached. He wants Roosevelt to know that he will be meeting with the Emperor at Wilhelmshohe in August to discuss the interchange of professors and educational subjects. Butler is also congratulating Roosevelt on his role in the Japan-Russian matter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-06-15
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary explains that Roosevelt cannot advise C. F. Warner on what part of the country would best suit him. He shares his recent experience out West and offers his observations on several states. He suggests Warner contact the secretaries of the chambers of commerce in these states for information and advice.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-11-22
President Roosevelt thanks Edward Sandford Martin for joining him for lunch. Roosevelt believes he owes much of his success to opportunity.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-04-28
President Roosevelt is in Mrs. Logan’s debt for her information on the situation and when he finds the right place he will be at the general’s disposal.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-10-22
E. G. Higginbotham wants information from Theodore Roosevelt, “America’s best authority.” He made a considerable amount of money as a lawyer in New York City, but lost most of it. Higginbotham asks Roosevelt which Western states provide climate and opportunity.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-08-28
Oscar S. Straus II, president of the Theodore Roosevelt Association, hosts the annual awards ceremony. Hermann Hagedorn, executive director, introduces Arthur Holly Compton, a nuclear physicist, and Thomas E. Dewey, Governor of New York, recipients of the Distinguished Service Medals in Science and Public Service. In their acceptance speeches, Compton speaks on public service and the importance of a free society working together towards a unified goal, as was done during the second world war, and Dewey speaks on the worldwide application of the “American Dream,” and the shifting struggles between the United States and the Soviet Union. Additional brief remarks are presented by Anne Lyon Haight, who comments on an upcoming merger of the Theodore Roosevelt Association and the Women’s Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Association.
Theodore Roosevelt Association
1955-10-27
Quoting from William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Brooks Adams congratulations President Roosevelt and tells him that he “will always stand as the President who began the contest for supremacy of American against the eastern continent.” Adams assures Roosevelt that he has the courage and capacity to succeed and that fortune has in mind for him “as prosperous a future as she has had a brilliant past.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-09-23