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Theodore Roosevelt will write to Major General Frank McCoy and have him look into the case, but he will do so cautiously, as he believes it is illegal for an outsider to get involved in a promotion.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1918-05-24
Theodore Roosevelt hopes that Gifford Pinchot can raise the regiment of foresters and take them over to France. Roosevelt sends his regards to Pinchot’s wife, Leila.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1917-05-23
Theodore Roosevelt has had part of the article that he got from Cornelia Pinchot “boxed” for the opening section in the Metropolitan.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1917-01-22
Theodore Roosevelt was “sick at heart” by the end of the campaign. He never had any doubt of opposing Woodrow Wilson. Cornelia Pinchot has not written Roosevelt anything about his article. William H. Taft has been elected the spokesman for the League of Enforcement.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1917-01-09
Theodore Roosevelt met with Frances Kellor and Cornelia Bryce Pinchot regarding the Progressive Service. He agrees with their proposal to separate the Progressive Service from the Progressive Party. Many people are in sympathy with the Progressive Service but do not want to be associated with the party. Roosevelt hopes that Kellor can continue to run the Progressive Service, with the same name, as an independent organization.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914-12-19
Gifford Pinchot was away and then involved in an important legal matter. Regarding the farmers, Congress and executives should not be the only ones in control. Rather, farmers’ organizations should be supported and their input welcomed by the government. Pinchot also leaves notes with page numbers next to topics relating to labor and business; with more time he could have done more. Pinchot thinks a first draft is “not a fair subject of criticism” but does not feel the letter measures up to Roosevelt’s usual level of writing. Pinchot concludes by remarking that he enjoyed Roosevelt’s article on the League of Nations.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1918-12-15
Gifford Pinchot may have found another job in the opportunity to take a regiment of foresters to France. Pinchot believes the country will resent Woodrow Wilson, as “it doesn’t pay to be mean in public.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1917-05-19
Gifford Pinchot sends a copy of what he said at the Young Republican Club.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1917-01-16
Gifford Pinchot asks if Theodore Roosevelt will write a letter introducing Gerald Morgan to Ambassador George Bakhmeteff. As a war correspondent, Morgan has accompanied the German and British armies and is now hoping to do the same with the Russian army. Pinchot and Cornelia Bryce Pinchot will be leaving soon for Florida.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914-11-09
Jane Addams thanks Theodore Roosevelt for the note from Mr. Lee. She hopes to get to know Lee in the future. Addams is pleased with the “tremendous impulse” that the Progressive campaign has provided for social reform measures. She hopes to discuss the matter with Roosevelt at the meeting in New York on November 26.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-11-20
Gifford Pinchot requests that Theodore Roosevelt adhere to the travel schedule that he has signed and reminds him that Pinchot has never asked anything personal of Roosevelt in the past.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914-10-17
Gifford Pinchot notifies Theodore Roosevelt that the speaking schedule cannot be changed. To reduce it, Pinchot says, would give a “most unfortunate impression” and cause “real harm.” However, Roosevelt only needs to speak two or three times a day on the trip; Pinchot and William Draper Lewis can cover the smaller stops as Roosevelt chooses.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914-10-17
Char Miller recounts the friendship and working relationship between Theodore Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot, and he gives an introduction to a eulogy Pinchot wrote for the Journal of Forestry after Roosevelt’s death in early 1919. In the eulogy, Pinchot discusses the important role that Roosevelt played in establishing the United States Forest Service and in greatly expanding the scope of federally protected forest land.
Three photographs, including two of Pinchot, a 1912 campaign poster supporting Roosevelt, and a page from the Journal of Forestry eulogy supplement the article. The text includes the complete eulogy penned by Pinchot.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2017
Char Miller opens and concludes his biography of Gifford Pinchot by asserting that the contemporary Republican Party under President George W. Bush has abandoned the conservation legacy the party built under Pinchot and Theodore Roosevelt. Miller looks at the evolution of Pinchot’s beliefs, extending back to his grandparents, and he demonstrates how Pinchot moved further to the left during the course of his career. By the time of the second Roosevelt presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Pinchot had undergone a “radicalization” that called for the seizure of private forest lands. Miller highlights some of the individuals who worked with or against Pinchot in his forestry career.
Thirteen photographs supplement the text, including two of Theodore Roosevelt and six of Pinchot.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2007
John W. Furlow asserts that Gifford’s Pinchot later career as a politician, most notably as Governor of Pennsylvania, is often overlooked in favor of focusing on the time when he was ascendant in the American conservation movement. Furlow closely examines Pinchot’s time as Governor, and he stresses the role of his wife, Cornelia Bryce Pinchot, as an important influence on Pinchot. Pinchot favored prohibition and the building of farm to market roads as Governor, and Furlow argues that Pinchot’s political career focused on the preservation of human resources. Though he supported President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, Pinchot remained active in Republican politics, but he never held elective office again after 1935.
A photograph of Gifford Pinchot on horseback in 1925 and two photographs of Cornelia Bryce Pinchot appear in the article. In addition to endnotes, the article also features a paragraph that lists a number of studies and biographies of the Pinchots and their home, Grey Towers.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1987
This brief biography of Gifford Pinchot recounts his accomplishments as first Chief of the United States Forest Service, as well as later in life. Pinchot participated heavily in Theodore Roosevelt’s Progressive Party, and was later elected Governor of Pennsylvania in 1922 and 1930 as a Republican. Pinchot helped found many associations focused on forestry and conservation, and was additionally a founder of the Roosevelt Memorial Association.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1987
This film opens with exterior views of Theodore Roosevelt’s birthplace, Roosevelt House, on its dedication day. Bought and restored by the Woman’s Roosevelt Memorial Association, the brownstone is officially opened to visitors on October 27, 1923. There are views of street crowds. The Gloria Trumpeters, four young women in Grecian costume herald the event with trumpet music from the balcony of Roosevelt House. There is a view of William T. Manning, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York, who is to deliver an opening prayer. The next scene is of Governor Gifford Pinchot and his wife Cornelia Bryce Pinchot of Pennsylvania, Acting Mayor of New York City, Murray Hulbert, and other unidentified guests arriving.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1923-10-27