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Reade, Philip Hildreth, 1844-1919

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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Henry Cabot Lodge

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Henry Cabot Lodge

President Roosevelt is amused at some of the political attacks against him. He agrees to Senator Lodge’s suggestions for personnel changes in the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission, but is unsure how to handle the “whisky business” regarding the Pure Food and Drug Act. Roosevelt is facing a number of requests that he run for reelection, but is not concerned with what most people think.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-21

Letter from Henry Cabot Lodge to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from Henry Cabot Lodge to Theodore Roosevelt

Senator Lodge brings several small matters to President Roosevelt’s attention about Senator William E. Chandler resigning from the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission, interviews that Lodge has had with blenders of whiskey who feel they have been misrepresented by the journalist, Henry Beach Needham, and that Philip Hildreth Reade ought to be promoted to Brigadier General in the United States Army. Lodge also mentions that he gave an off-hand speech encouraging people to support the Republican ticket, but it had been misrepresented in the papers. The senator closes by including a quotation from a man who believed that Roosevelt was a drunkard and addicted to morphine and that his family constantly stays with him to prevent others from discovering his condition.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-19

Letter from G. Creighton Webb to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from G. Creighton Webb to Theodore Roosevelt

G. Creighton Webb writes to President Roosevelt regarding officers of the 71st Infantry Regiment of New York who have been denied admission to the Society of the Army of Santiago de Cuba. Admission to the Society is reserved for those who “served worthily,” and Webb and Philip Reade, the committee on admissions, consider officers Wallace Downs and Clinton Smith ineligible because they were found guilty of insubordination and other charges. However, General Shafter and A. C. Sharpe are advocating for the officers’ admittance, calling the earlier case against them a “New York local contest.” Webb asks the President to write to Shafter and Sharpe, urging them not to reopen the matter.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901