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Dr. Lambert writes to President Roosevelt regarding the course of the illness and death of Jabob Riis’s wife Elisabeth. Lambert states that Riis was especially comforted by Roosevelt’s telegrams.
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1905-05-18
Dr. Lambert informs President Roosevelt that Jacob Riis’s wife, Elisabeth, has a “fighting chance.” Lambert will see her tomorrow and will update the Roosevelts after that visit.
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1905-05-15
Albert Shaw discusses two articles that are to be written about President Roosevelt and notes the two authors that Roosevelt has suggested should write them. Shaw also requests photographs from Roosevelt’s upcoming trip to publish with the article.
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1905-03-25
Silas McBee highlights the significance of Theodore Roosevelt’s visit to New York City. According to the New York Times, Roosevelt is the only president aside from George Washington to visit the east side of the city. McBee has printed Roosevelt’s Lincoln speech in the current issue of the Churchman. If McBee was to write his editorial over today, he would make his opinion on the Arbitration Treaties stronger, because he feels so strongly that Roosevelt is correct.
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1905-02-15
Joseph Adams Smith asks President Roosevelt about a historical fact regarding the battle between the ships the Alabama and the Kearsarge for an address Smith is delivering at the Union League of Philadelphia.
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1904-07-04
Charles O. Bishop explores the origins of the friendship between Theodore Roosevelt and Joseph Bucklin Bishop. Bishop traces the relationship to the time when Roosevelt served as a police commissioner in New York City, and Joseph Bucklin Bishop publicized Roosevelt’s work in his newspaper editorials. Bishop notes Joseph Bucklin Bishop’s disregard for Andrew D. Parker, another member of the police commission, and he highlights Bishop’s work on the Isthmian Canal Commission and Roosevelt’s request that Bishop write his biography.
Four photographs of Joseph Bucklin Bishop supplement the text.
James M. Strock examines Theodore Roosevelt’s approach to leadership by identifying and exploring twenty tenets of Roosevelt’s leadership style. Among these are seizing the initiative, hiring talented subordinates, and delegating authority. Strock draws extensively from Roosevelt’s leadership of the Rough Riders and his management of the Panama Canal construction for examples with which to illustrate Roosevelt’s leadership, and he cites Elihu Root and Gifford Pinchot as examples of talented subordinate leaders. Fifteen of the twenty tenets offer examples of how Roosevelt managed those who worked for him in various capacities.
Six photographs populate the article, including ones of Roosevelt, Root, and Pinchot.
Eleven topics vie for attention in the “Reviews” section, including six book review essays, three of which are written by John A. Gable. Harry N. Lembeck revisits Jacob A. Riis’s 1904 biography Theodore Roosevelt the Citizen and finds it especially valuable for learning about Theodore Roosevelt’s tenure as Police Commissioner of New York City. Jeremy M. Murphy says that Eric Rauchway’s Murdering McKinley goes against the prevailing trend that sees Roosevelt’s progressivism as genuine, and he disputes Rauchway’s conclusions about the fate of the Socialist Party in the United States. Gable notes that James Chace’s 1912 makes no use of primary sources, but he recommends it “as a good place to start on the election of 1912.”
In his review of Daniel J. Philippon’s Conserving Words, Edward Renehan focuses on Roosevelt, his writings about hunting and ranching in Dakota, and his founding of the Boone & Crockett Club. Gable notes that John P. Avlon identifies Roosevelt as a model centrist in his Independent Nation, and he says that Richard D. White’s Roosevelt the Reformer provides a biography of Roosevelt during his years as a Civil Service Commissioner. The section also has an excerpt from the writings of Douglas Brinkley, notes the passing of Edward Wagenknecht, author of The Seven Worlds of Theodore Roosevelt, and announces that the 2004 meeting of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) will be held in Portland, Oregon. An article on the vice presidential candidates in the election of 1904 and two letters to the TRA praising its journal close out the section.
Photographs of Roosevelt and Avlon appear in the section along with a text box with a quote from Roosevelt about the 1904 campaign.
Based on his book Police Administration and Progressive Reform: Theodore Roosevelt As Police Commissioner of New York, Jay S. Berman examines Theodore Roosevelt’s tenure as President of the Police Board of New York City. Berman looks at the political obstacles posed by Senator Thomas Collier Platt and Police Superintendent Thomas Byrnes, and he notes how Roosevelt’s penchant for action and for assuming a leadership role manifested themselves in his job as Police Commissioner. Berman looks at Roosevelt’s late night, undercover inspections and how Roosevelt used them to improve the police force, and he adds that they also improved Roosevelt’s political standing and reputation.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1988
Howard A. Sobel asserts that President Roosevelt condemned some of the radical journalists of the early twentieth century in his 1906 speech “The Man With the Muckrake” because he believed that their efforts only produced anger and division and did not promote constructive reforms achieved through the political process. Sobel stresses that Roosevelt believed in steady, gradual reforms that would address wrongs and curb public anger that could lead to class divisions and anarchy. Sobel argues that Roosevelt’s approach to reform can be seen in his biographies of Gouverneur Morris and Thomas Hart Benton.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1975
Ben B. Lindsey heard of Theodore Roosevelt’s visit to New York’s Children’s Court and wants to tell him about a national backlash to children’s courts. He contends that the issues that arise in children’s court need to be addressed on a societal level and that children need to be disciplined. He encloses two pamphlets of his addresses to the National Prison Congress and National Education Association.
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1911-09-16
The Independent Religious Society advertises several upcoming lectures, and provides a program for the lecture of February 26, 1911 by Mangasar M. Mangasarian. Additionally included in the pamphlet is a letter from Mangasarian to Jacob A. Riis. While Mangasarian praises Riis’s defense of Theodore Roosevelt, he criticizes Riis’s language, as well as Roosevelt’s criticism of Thomas Paine. The final page advertises a number of publications by Mangasarian.
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1911-02-26
The Child Labor Committee reports on the progress it has made in New York during 1902-1903, and outlines some of its plans for 1903-1904. The report is also accompanied by a list of people from around New York who have endorsed the efforts of the committee.
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1903-09
President Roosevelt thanks Le Grand Van Valkenburgh for his letter, and will send the clipping to Jacob A. Riis, who will be interested in it. Roosevelt loved and admired Mr. Curtis.
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1903-07-08
Silas McBee writes to President Roosevelt about a statement he made concerning Abraham Lincoln and the notion of strong people and a strong government. McBee expresses his admiration of Lincoln but argues that George Washington also held these ideas and had them before Lincoln. He closes his letter by referring to Lincoln’s birthday as a “Holy Day of the Nation.”
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1904-02-12
Richard Watson Gilder thanks President Roosevelt for his kind invitation. He approves what Jacob A. Riis and Francis E. Leupp have written about Roosevelt as good representations of “a figure unique in our public life.”
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1904-03-05
Silas McBee admires the “matchless democracy” of Abraham Lincoln. Theodore Roosevelt’s sentences about Lincoln have inspired McBee to deeper study. McBee also gives credit to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington in forming a strong country.
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1904-02-12
Text of Theodore Roosevelt’s speech on suffrage delivered at Saint Johnsbury, Vermont, on August 30, 1912, supporting equal suffrage for men and women.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1912-08-30
President Roosevelt presents a speech at the Pavilion on May 13, 1903, in San Francisco. Roosevelt speaks on the importance of national defense as the surest way to obtain peace, and praises the citizen who does not avoid difficulties, but works to meet them.
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1903-05-13
President Roosevelt’s speech at the Pavilion on May 13, 1903, in San Francisco. Roosevelt is struck by the fundamental unity of the people as he travels across the country.
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1903-05-13