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Charles Hedges submits a fourth petition to President Roosevelt asserting that Roosevelt’s November 30, 1903 memorandum falsely stated that he was indicted for fraud or theft. Hedges pleads with Roosevelt to take action to clear his name. If Roosevelt does not, Hedges threatens to sue him for libel.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-11-30
President Roosevelt tells Senator Lodge his speech was admirable, although he has not had the chance to read it in the Congressional Record yet, and writes that Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna was delighted with it, too.
Massachusetts Historical Society
1902-05-07
President Roosevelt has decided to appoint W. Cameron Forbes to the Philippine Commission. Roosevelt will gladly stay with Senator Lodge in Nahant, Massachusetts, on Monday. Roosevelt has also recently concluded a somewhat trying camping trip with his children that included 16 miles of rowing. Roosevelt received a nice letter from Senator George Frisbie Hoar, and shall announce Oliver Wendell Holmes’s appointment to the United States Supreme Court today.
Massachusetts Historical Society
1902-08-11
This film depicts Theodore Roosevelt’s commitment to the reclamation of desert land and his belief that natural resources exist for the public benefit. Included are close-up views of Frederick Haynes Newell, first director of the U.S. Reclamation Service and Gifford Pinchot, first chief forester and leader of the conservation movement in the U.S.; both influenced Roosevelt’s thinking and action on conservation. Roosevelt fought successfully for the passage of the Reclamation Act of 1902, which authorized the creation of the reclamation service. In 1906 work on the Roosevelt Dam on the Salt River in Arizona began and was completed in 1911. Film consists of views of desert area, including many varieties of cactus; construction of the dam; the completed dam, hydroelectric plant, reservoir, and irrigation system. Scenes of fields and orchards, sheep and cattle grazing, men clearing, plowing, and harvesting fields with various types of farm equipment, and scenes of crops of wheat, alfalfa, and melons, all represent the benefits brought to the Salt River Valley area by the availability of water.
At the formal dedication of the dam on March 18, 1911, Roosevelt presses an electric switch opening sluice gates, and speaks and shakes hands with workers. Behind him on the platform are, left to right: a woman who may be Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt; a bald man who is probably Louis C. Hill, supervising engineer of the project; an unidentified man; Benjamin A. Fowler, president of the National Irrigation Congress; another unidentified man; Richard E. Sloan, territorial Governor of Arizona; and a man who is probably John P. Orme, president of the Salt River Valley Water Users’ Association.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
Theodore Roosevelt explains to C. H. Davis that he is against both an English-American alliance and a German-American alliance.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1916-06-03
President Roosevelt thanks Henry L. Stimson for feedback on his speeches. Roosevelt acknowledges Stimson’s information on the arms embargo to Mexico, and says that while he received the information too late to include it in his speeches in Detroit, Chicago, and Kansas City, he will include it in an article he plans to write soon.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1916-05-27
Theodore Roosevelt will not give a full speech because he did not know they would stop at Ooltewah Junction, Tennessee. He is in the area to attend a convention of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen. Roosevelt took pleasure at seeing the Civil War battlefields in the Chattanooga area. He takes pride in the valor shown during that conflict.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-09-08
John Sherman pastes a portion of his Mt. Gilead speech that states “The Solid South held together in political fellowship by crimes, violence and fraud” onto a Ulysses S. Grant monument that contains text from “Grant’s Last Letter.” Sherman is being admonished by his brother, William Tecumseh Sherman, who is standing behind him. Caption: General Sherman “Brother, brother! This is bad business for a man who loves his country!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1885-09-09
Joseph B. Foraker holds a hot air balloon fashioned from shirts stitched together and labeled “Bloody Shirt” with the initials “J. G. B.” for James G. Blaine. John Sherman leans over a small pot labeled “Sectional Hatred” that is fastened to the bottom of the balloon (the basket and anchor has been discarded in the background), attempting to generate enough hot air to get the balloon off the ground by using a bellows labeled “Stump Speeches” to fan a fire in the pot. A notice pasted on a fence on the right states “John Sherman’s Mt. Gilead Speech.” A portion of the text states, “The Solid South, held together in political fellowship by crimes, violence and fraud.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1885-09-02
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary believes that the clipping that Charles E. Simpson sent falsely reports Roosevelt’s statements regarding race relations. For clarification, he points Simpson toward Roosevelt’s addresses, published by both the Review of Reviews Company and P. F. Collier & Son and available at public libraries.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-07-15
On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, his secretary responds to a request from Dr. Ali, noting that Roosevelt is unable to write an article, but his former addresses and speeches cover the desired topic and have been published by both the Review of Reviews Company and P. F. Collier & Son.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-07-15
Elisha Ely Garrison offers to create a pocket handbook with extracts from President Roosevelt’s speeches and records of his public acts, similar to one he used during a New York gubernatorial campaign. Garrison will send Roosevelt pages from his novel describing Roosevelt during the Spanish-American War in the summer of 1898. Charles Hopkins Clark of the Hartford Courant is currently reading his novel.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-10-22