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Theodore Roosevelt informs his sister Anna that William Sheffield Cowles is assigned to the USS Topeka (PG-35) and is to meet the ship in New York City.
1898-04-21
President Roosevelt addresses the city of St. Louis, Missouri, advocating the financial benefits of thoughtful transportation development, drawing comparisons to the Suez and Panama Canals. Roosevelt also discusses the importance of maintaining and developing the Navy.
1907-10-02
Norman V. McLeod recalls in detail the positive experiences he had during the six months he spent in the Civilian Conservation Corps. Because he was not needed at the camp in Medora, North Dakota, McLeod spent two weeks there and was then transferred to northern Minnesota. McLeod reflects on the impacts the CCC had on him, the training he received, and the people with whom he worked. McLeod also includes a short note with more information on the two weeks he spent in Medora, and returns the letter sent to him with the questionnaire with a short note on it as well.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1984
Black and white map traces the route of the United States Navy (the Great White Fleet) from 1907-1909.
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
1909
Theodore Roosevelt agrees with his sister Anna Roosevelt Cowles about Secretary of the Navy Hilary A. Herbert’s poor address on the Navy and feels Congress does not take war preparedness seriously. The Navy should be increased. Though Republican boss Thomas Collier Platt wants to legislate Roosevelt out of his Police Commissioner job, the legislators are wary of doing so. He recommends reading Brooks Adams’s Civilization and Decay.
1896-03-01
Theodore Roosevelt writes his sister Anna Roosevelt Cowles about recent house guests and his disgust with Congress. Sister Corinne is beyond help until she begins to help herself. Uncle Jimmie Roosevelt wrote he enjoyed his visit to Anna. Roosevelt provides updates on the family and says he did inspections to see how the new liquor law is working.
1896-05-03
Theodore Roosevelt informs his sister Anna Roosevelt Cowles that he and the Assistant Secretary of the Navy were guests of honor at a dinner and he feels the United States is gradually building a good “second-class” navy. He plans to spend a lot of time at Sagamore Hill this summer and says there is a drought out in the country.
1896-05-10
Prominent citizens of Boston oppose the “vast increase of naval expenditures” and want the United States to remain a country with no need for great armaments.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-01-22
Secretary of the Navy Long defends the naval appropriations.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-01-28
Secretary of the Navy Long would like to delay the decision on the naval station in Puerto Rico until the capabilities of the various anchorages have been determined and the various harbor improvements completed.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-01-29
President Roosevelt is pleased with the papers on target practice and the improved showing of practice aboard the ships.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-03-14
Service record noting assignments and promotions for Rear Admiral Andrew E. K. Benham.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-01-09
Secretary of the Navy Long reports that the Navy Department’s Judge Advocate General has found no precedent for an appeal to the President from an action by a court of inquiry.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-01-10
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt informs Lieutenant Harry Shepard Knapp he is relieved of lecturing duties at the Naval War College and should report for duties at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. The verso is stamped or endorsed with signatures of various Naval officers.
1897-08-24
Theodore Roosevelt writes Henry Reuterdahl to protest against the establishment of a civilian engineer corps in the Navy. It will inject a political element into the service and “revive all the bickerings of the days of the old engineer corps and the lamentable conditions resultant therefrom.”
1916-05-27
Theodore Roosevelt writes to Thomas W. Slocum about the importance of the Naval Training Cruise for Civilians in educating the American public about the navy and its unpreparedness. He feels there are not enough sailors in the present navy and it would be a “supreme patriotic duty” for civilian men who know the sea to do their part in the cause of preparedness.
1916-05-27
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt informs his daughter Alice that Edith’s sciatica is improving and he is reading to and romping with the children. During his visit to the Lodges, Nannie Cabot Lodge had an attack of the grippe. The Maine disaster has kept him very busy.
1898-02-20
President Roosevelt wants Emma Gadsden Drayton reinstated to a clerkship in the Navy Department as soon as possible.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-01-14
Speech which President Roosevelt delivered to the Great White Fleet upon its return from circumnavigating the globe. Page has Roosevelt’s handwritten edits. This item is incomplete (missing pages).
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
1909-02
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt provides Representative Barrows with information concerning the appointment of naval assistant paymasters, including how it should be handled in wartime.
1898-03-30