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The Inaugural Parade in procession, with the United States Military Academy Corps in the forefront
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905-03-08
The Inaugural Parade in procession, with the West Point cadets passing in the forefront
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905-04-10
Memorandum provides information about the tickets to the West Point-Annapolis football game that will be given to the Secret Service.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-11-29
Theodore Roosevelt wishes he could accept General Barry’s invitation to the Army-Navy football game. He takes pleasure in thinking of Barry at West Point and has always considered him “pretty near answering my ideal of the American soldier.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-11-10
Theodore Roosevelt is pleased that General Thomas Henry Barry liked “Peace of Righteousness” and is gratified that it will be read to cadets at West Point. He requests that Barry give Colonel Lucius Hudson Holt his regards, and regrets that he is unable to appear for a lecture. He reminds Barry that he hopes to see Barry and his wife at Oyster Bay.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-15
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary informs Leon G. Harer that Roosevelt is not able to assist him as he hoped. Only those in official positions can help in the way that Harer wishes, and Roosevelt cannot interfere as he does not hold any office.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-06-19
On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, his secretary informs Samuel C. Disbrow that Roosevelt has not interfered with official matters of any kind since leaving the presidency. While he sympathizes with Disbrow’s circumstances, he cannot help.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-06-07
Theodore Roosevelt thinks that Herman Hoffman Birney’s son, Hoffman Birney, would make an excellent officer in the Engineering Corps but he is too old to enter the United States Military Academy. Roosevelt suggests that Birney write to his congressman or General Leonard Wood regarding the matter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1916-02-04
Theodore Roosevelt advises Lieutenant David Livingston Roscoe that it is not possible for him to enlist now, because no one knows when the war will occur. Roosevelt points out that Roscoe should not worry about not being a graduate of West Point as many of the best officers he knew, like Colonel Gordon Johnstone, were not graduates of West Point, either.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-03-29
Theodore Roosevelt explains to Lucius Hudson Holt that he cannot speak to the West Point cadets, but wishes he could.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-12-19
President Roosevelt instructs Secretary of War Wright to designate James Cooper Waddell of Delphi, Indiana, for the admissions exam for the United States Military Academy at the recommendation of Representative Charles B. Landis. Landis’s previous appointee failed the Christmas examination during his second year.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-03-01
President Roosevelt orders that a Department of Naval Hygiene and Physiology be established at the United States Naval Academy. The senior medical officer at the Academy should be the department’s head and be given a spot on the academic board.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-02-13
President Roosevelt asks Secretary of War Wright for a report on an enclosed letter written by Gordon Johnston on behalf of John E. McMahon, who was rejected as a cadet at the United States Military Academy for having a crooked forearm. Roosevelt will direct that McMahon be admitted, if he has the power to do so.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-02-08
President Roosevelt believes that there is insufficient reason for the Academic Board at West Point to recommend dismissal of five cadets from West Point, and asks the United States War Department to reconvene the board to reconsider the matter. Roosevelt believes that it would be “an entirely needless hardship to turn these boys out,” and that there should be some arrangement less than discharge that can be done.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-04
President Roosevelt tells Quartermaster General Aleshire that the clothes made for him by Charles E. Lightfoot, chief cutter under Aleshire, are very good quality. Roosevelt also mentions that Dr. Fred B. Gage has done a very good job tending to the horses in the White House stables, and hopes that he will not be sent away during Roosevelt’s term, unless it is to detail him to West Point.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-18
President Roosevelt was pleased to appoint Elizabeth Anderson Clarkson Thompson’s grandson to West Point, but he does not understand what her son Hugh S. Thompson wants. He cannot write for a promotion for him, and does not know of any vacancies in government service. Roosevelt asks her to have him write him what he wants.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-11-24
President Roosevelt thanks Caspar Whitney for his letter, and tells him that there are no current plans to replace the Commandant of Cadets at the United States Military Academy.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-11-10
Several graduates from the French cavalry school at Saumur are now training horsemanship at West Point and the Mounted Service School. Now that the French system is being taught at the Mounted Service School, President Roosevelt asks Secretary of War Wright to issue orders allowing graduates from that school to train men at their posts and regiments.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-10-26
President Roosevelt values Land Office Commissioner Ballinger’s recommendation, but is not yet ready to fill the vacancy left by West Point Commandant of Cadets Robert Lee Howze.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-08-04
President Roosevelt thanks S. B. M. Young, George S. Patton, Robert S. Bean, and Henry Lee Higginson for the valuable paper that they wrote. Roosevelt has brought the paper to the attention of Secretary of War William H. Taft, and asks them to personally write to Taft to call his attention to the report. Roosevelt agrees with the recommendation for the purchase of property, and says that he is not entirely content with the academic course at either the Military Academy at West Point or the Naval Academy at Annapolis. He thinks there might be too much emphasis placed on academics in the military, and says that if he needed to pic someone to lead a cavalry division, he would not care if the person was good at math.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-06-19