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Theodore Roosevelt appreciates Abbot Charles’s letter. He asks if Charles saw that he quoted his letter in The Outlook. Like Charles’s speech, Roosevelt’s address pleas for charity among people of different religious traditions.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-06
President Roosevelt thanks Diomede Falconio, Apostolic Nuncio to the United States, for his letter. Roosevelt appreciates Falconio’s recognition of his efforts to treat everyone fairly regardless of their religious convictions.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-03-02
President Roosevelt enjoyed Lebowich’s article, and wishes he had been amongst the Harvard men in Roosevelt’s regiment. Roosevelt agrees with Lebowich that he attempts to treat Jews and Catholics as he does Protestants; Roosevelt believes that in the future there will inevitably be Jewish and Catholic presidents and, thus, hopes that he treats them as he would want to be treated by a Jewish or Catholic president, i.e., “without regards to the several creeds which they profess or the several lands from which their ancestors have sprung.” Roosevelt tries not to be patronizing or condescending, and appreciates that Lebowich noticed that.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-10-15
Secretary of Commerce and Labor Straus expresses his appreciation to President Roosevelt for the opportunity to serve in his cabinet. Straus recognizes that his appointment had importance beyond his own personal career, but was an expression of Roosevelt’s commitment to religious tolerance.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-03-03
United States Ambassador to France White encloses an article by André Tardieu in Le Temps. White is pleased with President Roosevelt’s observations with respect to religious toleration and reform leading to religious harmony. He thinks this view will be productive in France. He also encloses pictures of the new American embassy in Paris. Finally, White updates Roosevelt on the political situation in France. Emile Combes gave an unfortunate speech at a dinner honoring Henri Brisson, which hurt his own chances of ousting Georges Clemenceau as Prime Minister.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-03-20
In an essay written shortly before his death in October 2002, historian Stephen E. Ambrose compares and contrasts Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt, and he discusses the most important issues faced by each president as well as the lasting legacies of each. Ambrose highlights Jefferson’s writing of the Declaration of Independence, his promotion of religious toleration, and his expansion of the nation, and he asserts that Jefferson failed to adequately deal with the problem of slavery and the treatment of Native Americans. Ambrose writes that Roosevelt made his mark foremost with conservation, but that he also dealt with the need to reform the military and the inequalities brought about by industrialization. Ambrose notes that Roosevelt, more than any other president, made a distinction between right and wrong.
Photographs of Mount Rushmore National Memorial, Ambrose, and Roosevelt supplement the text.
A series of images starts in the upper left, with a kitten labeled “Romish Influence” drinking from a saucer labeled “Toleration,” and a young boy holding a book labeled “Public School System,” standing with Liberty. As the images progress across the top, the kitten grows into a young tiger, until on the bottom left, it becomes a frightening tiger sitting on a table. In the final vignette, it has grown to full size, wearing clerical robes labeled “Romish Influence” and now stands over both the boy and Liberty, with a paw on each of them. Caption: Reprinted from Puck of January 16th, 1884. – Puck finds no stronger comment on the renewal of Catholic agitation for a share of the Public School Funds.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-01-03
Uncle Sam knocks the heads of two men together, a masked man on the left holding papers labeled “A.P.A. Un-American Intolerance” and, on the right, a member of the clergy holding papers labeled “Greed for Public School Funds.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-11-07
A female figure with a shield labeled “Tolerance” and a sword labeled “Knowledge” uses a cord labeled “Equality” to hold back a large snake labeled “Freedom Worship Bill” that has ensnared a young child wearing a hat labeled “S of Refuge.” “Randalls Island” House of Refuge is in the background.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1885-02-11
Liberty sits on a chair teaching a young boy about the “Public School System.” A kitten labeled “Romish Infl.” drinks from a bowl labeled “Toleration” at their feet. In a series of vignettes, the kitten grows into a cat, getting larger and larger, until it has become a large tiger wearing clerical robes labeled “Romish Influence,” standing over Liberty and the young boy who are unconscious on the floor.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-01-16