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Theodore Roosevelt received John St. Loe Strachey’s letter after Roosevelt published his article on “hyphenated Americanism.” He congratulates Strachey on his son-in-law’s military service. He informs Strachey that he will never again run for public office, but will continue speaking and writing while the World War is ongoing and will then retire.
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1915-10-09
Theodore Roosevelt admires the piece that Mary Fanny Youngs wrote and will hopefully have it published in The Outlook.
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1915-10-11
Theodore Roosevelt compliments Bishop Gailor on his “eminently characteristic” interview from the previous summer as “about as good and bold a statement as had appeared anywhere.” Roosevelt is happy to provide a letter Gailor requested because it is for the Sewanee Review, a publication Roosevelt endorses “with all his heart.”
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1915-10-16
Theodore Roosevelt looks forward to seeing Paul Underwood Kellogg and asks that he read an article by the Englishman Jacks in the Yale Review, which comments on an article Roosevelt had sent Kellogg. Roosevelt finds Jacks’ article immoral and refers to Kellogg’s mention of the U.S. Constitution binding the states in unity. Roosevelt chastises Kellogg for not recognizing that “two million men” fought for that unity during the Civil War and that the U.S. is committed to going to war to protect that unity.
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1915-05-06
Theodore Roosevelt is happy to have received the articles Nelson Lloyd sent.
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1915-03-24
Theodore Roosevelt tells General Wood that he looks forward to receiving copies of Scientific American. Roosevelt shares a statistic he learned from General McCoskry Butt, namely that most Civil War soldiers were under 25. Roosevelt gleans from this that older men are useless unless they are trained. Roosevelt further complains that states that support President Wilson in military unpreparedness are the most warlike and the most likely to antagonize a nation into war. He cites how California insults Japan for example.
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1915-03-03
Theodore Roosevelt agrees with William Dudley Foulke on the subject of national defense and is glad Foulke wrote to Perkins about it. Roosevelt hopes Foulke will see the next Metropolitan in which Roosevelt discusses the matter.
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1915-03-05
Theodore Roosevelt would like more information but can only offer help by providing his article.
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1914-12-16
Albert J. Beveridge is interested in writing an article about World War I for Collier’s Weekly and Theodore Roosevelt asks Admiral von Tirpitz if he would be a source. Beveridge is specifically interested in learning about the German navy.
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1914-12-04
Theodore Roosevelt enjoyed the letter and article titled “The Big Game.”
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1914-12-12
Theodore Roosevelt thinks that Wallace Benedict has a good plan, but is unable to write such a letter at this time. If Benedict is interested, he can read the letter that Roosevelt wrote for James Edward West’s publication, Boys’ Life.
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1914-11-30
The Roosevelts enjoyed reading Leonard R. Wood’s article and Theodore Roosevelt sends his congratulations. Roosevelt spoke to Leonard Wood earlier in the week and accepts the invitation to visit the Wood family at their home when he and Edith are in the city.
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1914-11-21
Theodore Roosevelt sends an article back to Joel Elias Spingarn with some notes.
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1914-11-14
Theodore Roosevelt was happy to run into Arthur H. Samuels the other night and also compliments him on his article about Penrose.
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1914-10-02
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Roger Williams Straus for the article that was written by his father-in-law.
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1914-11-04
Theodore Roosevelt is unsure to whom R. J. Harding should write. He suggests that Harding asks the editor of the Journal of the Military Service for guidance.
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1914-11-05
Theodore Roosevelt congratulates Benjamin F. Harris of the forthcoming publication of Harris’ article in the Country Gentleman.
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1912-12-24
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Leander Pease Richardson on the work he did during the campaign. Roosevelt will return the articles Richardson sent him under a separate cover.
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1912-12-24
Theodore Roosevelt writes to tell Robert Wilden Neeser that his looks forward to reading Neeser’s article in the North American Review.
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1912-12-18
President Roosevelt sends Lyman Abbott copies of his Sorbonne and Romanes lectures that he will deliver in the spring of 1910. They should not be published until he delivers the lectures, but once that is done Roosevelt wonders if The Outlook would be willing to arrange for their publications through press associations for whichever newspapers may wish to publish them.
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1908-12-30