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President Roosevelt notes that Bishop Henry Gabriels, in his speech to the Pope, correctly reflected the meaning of Roosevelt’s words regarding equal treatment of members of different religions, but that the precise words used were the Bishop’s own.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-08
President Roosevelt describes to Senator Lodge the difficulties he has had in negotiating the composition of the commission to examine the Anthracite Coal Strike. The mine operators did not want a representative of labor included. Roosevelt discovered the importance of labeling and perception, however, in that they would protest his appointment of Bishop John Lancaster Spalding as “eminent sociologist” and the addition of a representative of labor, yet they would happily accept the representative of labor being labeled an “eminent sociologist” and the addition of Bishop Spalding.
Massachusetts Historical Society
1902-10-17