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President Roosevelt is busy attempting to get several measures through Congress. The Venezuelan crisis continues to irritate him. However, the General Staff bill passed and Baron Speck has been appointed German Ambassador to the United States.
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1903-02-01
President Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt have been out riding regularly and the President has been playing single-stick with Lieutenant McCoy as General Wood is away.
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1903-01-08
President Roosevelt fears that he does not have “house room or stable room” for any more dogs.
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1902-12-22
President Roosevelt thanks James Abram Garfield, a grandson of President Garfield, for the gift and then relates the Roosevelt family’s Christmas activities.
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1902-12-26
President Roosevelt thanks S. Louise Patteson for the biography and mentions that he likes his children to have pets.
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1902-08-18
President Roosevelt is pleased to send Henrietta Dexter Field a photo of Kermit Roosevelt and Jack, their pet Manchester terrier.
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1902-07-17
President Roosevelt tells Joel Chandler Harris how much the Roosevelt children enjoy his stories. Roosevelt describes the wide variety of White House pets.
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1902-06-09
Sailor Boy, a Chesapeake Bay Retriever, has arrived and Ted Roosevelt has been made his “special master.”
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1902-05-26
President Roosevelt thanks Melvenah McFarland for her offer, but he does not believe the Roosevelts can accept another pet at this time. He says, “We are beginning to feel a little like a Zoo anyhow!”
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1902-03-17
President Roosevelt encloses an article about Asiatic wild horses. The Roosevelt’s Shetland pony is “naughty” and difficult to ride.
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1901-11-04
Edward William Bok thanks President Roosevelt for his correspondence with Bok’s son, Curtis Bok. Bok describes his son’s great admiration for the president. Curtis was also greatly excited to receive the signed copy of Roosevelt’s book Outdoor Pastimes.
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1908-03-14
Arthur Hamilton Lee recently returned from Canada where he was on a mission to gather opinions related to the Alaskan Arbitration land dispute. Locals seems to be glad the matter is over, although there is resentment towards Newfoundland’s “modus vivendi.” Self-described “King of Newfoundland” Robert Gillespie Reid thinks only the basest politicians are against it.
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1906-10-30
Dr. Lambert forwards to President Roosevelt a letter from Dr. William Crawford Gorgas which might interest him. Lambert notes that Anna Roosevelt Cowles saw his wolf pictures and spoke to Whitelaw Reid about them. Reid is anxious to show them to King Edward and the Prince of Wales. Lambert has not seen his own bear pictures yet, which were less successful, but will have them some day this week. He asks if Roosevelt, when he comes to Brooklyn, would like Lambert to meet him somewhere and bring some of his bear hunt pictures.
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1905-05-22
A photograph showing President Theodore Roosevelt on his horse named Renown.
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1902-01-15
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1910-1920
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List of animals donated to the National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C. by Presidents of the United States. Twelve presidents from Grover Cleveland to Richard Nixon are on the list. Between January 1902 and November 1909, Theodore Roosevelt made twenty-seven donations of thirty-eight individual animals and birds, including thirteen opossums, to the zoo.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1980
Reprint of an article that originally appeared in Ms. Magazine in August 1976. Author Harriet Shapiro interviewed Theodore Roosevelt’s daughter Ethel Roosevelt Derby at her home in Oyster Bay, New York. Much of the piece is devoted to Ethel’s memories of life with her family at their family home Sagamore Hill. She relates how her parents, Theodore Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, dealt with the children, and she notes how the Roosevelt siblings paired off, and she talks of her relationship with her older sister Alice Roosevelt Longworth.
A familiar picture of the assembled Roosevelt family and a close-up of Ethel Roosevelt Derby accompany the article.
In the first vignette, an airplane sits in marshes. Caption: Langley’s aerodrome still languishes on the Potomac marshes. In the second vignette, the Roosevelt family returns to the White House with their animals. Caption: The Roosevelts are home.
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1903-10-10
President Roosevelt holds the White House in his right hand and a William H. Taft button on his label. He says, “Loeb, you’re right. This is the place for us!” William Loeb carries several suitcases, including one labeled “T. R. Wash. D.C.” Roosevelt’s dog “Pete” stands beside him with a bandage on his face. Meanwhile, an airplane flies around the United States Capitol building while a teddy bear says, “Just gaze at the improvement since June! My!”
President Roosevelt’s datebook for 1908 indicates that the day this cartoon by Clifford Kennedy Berryman was published in the Washington Star, September 22, is when Roosevelt left Oyster Bay at the end of his summer vacation.
President Roosevelt reports to his son Kermit Roosevelt that “life at Oyster Bay is as wonderful as it is pleasant.” He describes how the neighborhood entertained the officers of the Mayflower in a variety of ways. Archibald Roosevelt spends most of his time boating with his dog Skip. Roosevelt is again busy with work, which includes writing speeches and making arrangements for the Atlantic Fleet. He hopes Kermit is enjoying himself.
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1907-08-27