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Lawrence F. Abbott congratulates Theodore Roosevelt on his and Henry L. Stimson’s “splendid fight” to purify the New York Republican Party. The Outlook will treat the elections as it always has by reporting and interpreting the facts and restating its own political platform. Abbott asks Roosevelt to comment on the elections solely through The Outlook.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-11-09
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-11-09
Atterbury, Walter Butler, 1854-1953
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
English
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-10-01
Bonaparte, Charles J. (Charles Joseph), 1851-1921
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
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Henry Francis Ashion sends Theodore Roosevelt a picture of Robert Glocking to accompany his biography, which Ashion had previously sent. He provides more information on the “Wahnetas” and their association with the International Typographical Union. Ashion admonishes Roosevelt to watch the Wahnetas closely as they will try to defeat Henry L. Stimson.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-10-14
Representative Dwight reviews the arrangements for Theodore Roosevelt’s trip through the unused farm country on October 24. Concerning politics, Dwight cannot find anything wrong in these rural districts, so the primary issue is arousing enthusiasm to get voters to the polls.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-10-17
Representative Fassett was delighted to see the Associated Press dispatch Theodore Roosevelt sent and reminds him that their association has been longer than twenty-five years. “On the general principle,” Fassett has agreed with Roosevelt, although he has differed in opinion regarding the method. One such current, yet minor, difference concerns the direct nomination. He congratulates Roosevelt on his recent speeches and the ticket that was nominated. Fassett asks about Roosevelt’s speaking schedule and instructs him to caution Henry L. Stimson from revealing too much during the first interview.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-09-30
Douglas Robinson sends William Loeb an enclosed letter from United States district attorney Henry L. Stimson to President Roosevelt, as well as $769.82 that was deposited into a trust for Roosevelt by Lulu Grover. Robinson has placed this money to the credit of Roosevelt’s special account at the American Savings Bank. Robinson received the transfer tax bill from Stimson yesterday and is forwarding a check to the state comptroller in Albany, New York.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-02-09
Daniel W. Baker got all the presentments he asked for in President Roosevelt’s libel suit against newspaper publishers. The Grand Jury even decided to prosecute Joseph Pulitzer. Attorney General Bonaparte hopes to keep this news secret for a few days, so they can prepare the indictments.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-30
Douglas Robinson has given President Roosevelt John M. Bowers’s message. After conferring with Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte and Henry L. Stimson, Roosevelt feels that Bowers should talk to Stimson in New York. However, if Bowers would like to come to Washington, D. C. to see Roosevelt, an appointment can be arranged.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-29
Attorney General Bonaparte encloses a letter from Henry L. Stimson on President Roosevelt’s anticipated libel case involving Panama, and points specifically to Stimson’s suggestions for involving Secretary of State Elihu Root in the case. Bonaparte promises a future memorandum on the “Perkins matter” and asserts he is sure an offense has been committed under Section 1782, but it will be hard to prove.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-16
Representative Parsons discusses the appointment of a postmaster in New York City, New York, with President Roosevelt. Parsons outlines his opposition to Edward M. Morgan as postmaster.
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1907-07-08
Representative Parsons believes that other men would have made better chairmen of the New York Public Service Commission than New York City Postmaster William R. Willcox. He expects Willcox to be ineffective and thus damage legislation’s chances for success as well as the Republican Party and laments the shortage of people to run for office. Parsons also advises against naming Edward Morgan as Willcox’s replacement.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-06-29
Representative Parsons has enclosed a copy of a letter he wrote to Henry L. Stimson, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, that is related to the New York campaign, which President Roosevelt has taken an interest in.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-10-20
In a letter to the editor of the Buffalo Express, the writer argues that Theodore Roosevelt’s efforts in the 1910 elections spared the Republicans from even worse defeats than they suffered. Roosevelt has been blamed for the defeat by many, but the writer believes that he was one of the only Republicans who was fighting.
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1910-11-11
Robert Tarlan asks Theodore Roosevelt to endorse his amateur-produced magazine.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-04
John Robert Greene tells the story of Frederick Morgan Davenport of New York state, whose political affiliations would move from the Republican party to the Progressive party, back to the Republicans, and would end with him as a supporter of the New Deal working for Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman. Greene covers Davenport’s early career as a minister and teacher with an interest in the history of American revivals. He details his entry into New York politics and discusses his interest in adoption of the direct primary which led him to seek the support of Theodore Roosevelt. Greene examines the warfare in the Republican party between 1912 and 1916, and he notes Davenport’s work for Syracuse University in the 1920s. Davenport’s support of President Herbert Hoover and his work on behalf of tariff reform are covered as is Davenport’s gradual embrace of the New Deal while heading two agencies dealing with government personnel matters. Greene notes that Davenport was awarded the Theodore Roosevelt Distinguished Service Medal in 1951.
Two of Davenport’s campaign posters, a photograph of the 1912 Progressive Party convention in Chicago, and a political cartoon from the 1912 campaign illustrate the article.
Joe F. Decker provides a comprehensive bibliography of the various accounts of Theodore Roosevelt’s attempt to form a volunteer division during World War I. Decker begins with Roosevelt’s own first account in 1917 and concludes with John Milton Cooper’s version in The Warrior and the Priest of 1983. Decker examines books, book chapters, and articles on the subject, and finds that the story still has not been “dealt with satisfactorily.” Decker points out the biases and the shortcomings of some of the authors, and notes that many of the accounts strongly favor either Roosevelt or his antagonist President Woodrow Wilson.
A full page-photograph of Roosevelt and General Leonard Wood accompanies the article. A photograph of Harrison Engle and Sidney D. Kirkpatrick who directed documentary films on Roosevelt is featured, along with three photographs of Roosevelt from newsreel footage used in the film The Indomitable Teddy Roosevelt.
A listing of the officers of the Theodore Roosevelt Association as well as the members of its executive, finance, and Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace committees is on page two of the article.
President Herbert Hoover holds an “open house” event at the White House on New Year’s Day. A crowded line of people slowly moves toward the White House. Secretary of State Henry Stimson, Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, and Alice Roosevelt Longworth, are all captured individually on camera.
Sherman Grinberg Film Collection
1931-01-01
Photograph showing President Roosevelt with his “Tennis Cabinet” on the White House lawn on March 1, 1909, when a farewell luncheon was held for the group. Shown from left to right behind Theodore Roosevelt are military aide Archie Butt, Third Assistant Secretary of State William Phillips, Commissioner of the Bureau of Corporations Herbert Knox Smith, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Beekman Winthrop, Chief of U.S. Forest Service Gifford Pinchot, Comptroller of Currency Lawrence O. Murray, U.S. District Attorney Henry L. Stimson, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Herbert Livingston Satterlee, Associate Justice William H. Moody, U.S. District Attorney John Carter Rose, Secretary of the Navy Truman Handy Newberry, G. W. Woodruff, French Ambassador J. J. Jusserand, William Walter Heffelfinger, Postmaster General George von Lengerke Meyer, Commission of Indian Affairs Francis E. Leupp, John Avery McIlhenny, Secretary of the Interior James Rudolph Garfield, U.S. Marshal Seth Bullock, Solicitor General Henry Martyn Hoyt, U.S. Marshal John R. Abernathy, Luther S. Kelly, Secretary of State Robert Bacon, Commissioner of Labor Charles Patrick Neill, William Wingate Sewall, Commissioner General of Immigration Daniel J. Keefe, First Assistant Secretary of State James Callan O’Laughlin, James Bronson Reynolds, Henry S. Pritchett, and secretary William Loeb. In the foreground is the Alexander Phimster Proctor sculpture, “Stalking Panther,” which was presented to Roosevelt by his “Tennis Cabinet” at the luncheon.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1909-03-01
Hermann Hagedorn uses quotes from various friends, family, and colleagues of Theodore Roosevelt to demonstrate that he had an active Christian faith that he nurtured with Bible study and regular church attendance. He employs these quotations to counter the argument that Roosevelt was not a Christian and because Roosevelt himself seldom spoke openly about his faith.
Reverend George E. Talmadge, the Rector of Christ Church in Oyster Bay, New York, provides a view of Theodore Roosevelt the parishioner. He provides a number of anecdotes about Roosevelt’s participation in Sunday services and his support of church ministries. Talmadge discusses Roosevelt’s religious roots in the Dutch Reformed Church, his work with the Boy Scouts, and the death of Quentin Roosevelt.
A picture of Christ Church in Oyster Bay, New York accompanies the Talmadge article.