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Gilbert G. McDuff informs Theodore Roosevelt that he believes mandatory church and Sunday School can help reform law breakers, particularly young men and boys.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-19
President Roosevelt writes to Gerald Morgan, expressing how much he enjoyed spending the evening with Morgan’s sister touring several facilities for the homeless and poor. Roosevelt expresses the misery of these individuals’ situations and also bemoans how difficult it would be to rectify the situation.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914-12-31
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Edward S. Van Zile for his letter and agrees with Van Zile’s sentiment that Tammany Hall represents a more direct, if deeply flawed, type of humanitarianism for the New York City “down-trodden” compared to the “Evening Post mugwump type of reformer.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-12-18
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Henry Moskowitz for the H. H. Asquith quote and article from Dr. Shapiro. Roosevelt will not be able to help as he has many reforms that he has not been able to work with yet.
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1912-11-22
Myron T. Herrick was glad to receive President Roosevelt’s letter and congratulates him on President-elect William H. Taft’s victory. While he was in England in the summer, Herrick saw a newly-erected statue of Oliver Cromwell. He drew parallels between Cromwell’s reforms in England and Roosevelt’s in the United States.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-11-04
President Roosevelt praises The Outlook for its truthfulness and commitment to true social, civic, and political reform He contrasts this with writers in Cosmopolitan, whom he believes are enemies of genuine reform.
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1906-03-16
James Bronson Reynolds reminds President Roosevelt that he had planned to ask for lunch with P. N. Mili︠u︡kov. Reynolds believes a meeting between Roosevelt and a leading Russian reformer like Mili︠u︡kov would benefit both countries.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-11-25
Theodore Roosevelt stands in front of a desk holding a stack of papers labeled “Reform Bills” for Governor Cleveland to sign.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1884-04-19
Representative Reed discusses an article in which Civil Service Commissioner Roosevelt is quoted speaking highly of Reed, which Reed could not finish reading for fear he “could not live up to it,” but he has kept the article for when he is “low” in his mind and needs support. Reed praises a letter Roosevelt wrote to the “Goo Goo’s,” a nickname given to Progressive reformers who were in support of good government.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1895-10-29
Speaker of the House Reed tells Police Commissioner Roosevelt that his wife, Susan Prentice Merrill Reed, is impatient to get back to Grand Beach, Maine, where from a “happy distance” they can observe “the struggles of police commissioners and candidates for the presidency and other kinds of unfortunate beings” doing reform work that is going unrecognized.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1896-05-13