United States. Secret Service

Don Arp examines President Theodore Roosevelt’s visit to Lincoln, Nebraska, on April 27, 1903. Arp focuses on the many layers of protection provided for Roosevelt, in addition to his Secret Service detail, and he provides the full text of Roosevelt’s address given at the Nebraska state capitol building in which Roosevelt singled out the Civil War veterans for praise and emulation. Roosevelt stresses the need for citizens to possess the qualities of courage, common sense, and honesty. A photograph of David G. McCullough appears in the article.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2000

In “The Sighting at Pine Knot, Virginia,” Alton A. Lindsay explores the question of whether Theodore Roosevelt was the last person to report a credible sighting of the extinct passenger pigeon near his presidential retreat, Pine Knot in Virginia, in 1907. Lindsay provides a history of Pine Knot and also looks at the making of Roosevelt as a naturalist going back to his childhood.  He notes some of the defining experiences in Roosevelt’s life that made him a naturalist and conservationist, such as his time in the Dakota Badlands. Like other scholars he pushes back against the idea that Roosevelt was merely a man of action and asserts that he “was a man of intellect.”

He details Roosevelt’s sighting of a small flock of passenger pigeons in May 1907, and argues that Roosevelt’s history and experience as a naturalist and ornithologist lend credibility to his claims to have seen the birds. 

Reprint of an article that originally appeared in Ms. Magazine in August 1976. Author Harriet Shapiro interviewed Theodore Roosevelt’s daughter Ethel Roosevelt Derby at her home in Oyster Bay, New York. Much of the piece is devoted to Ethel’s memories of life with her family at their family home Sagamore Hill. She relates how her parents, Theodore Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, dealt with the children, and she notes how the Roosevelt siblings paired off, and she talks of her relationship with her older sister Alice Roosevelt Longworth.

A familiar picture of the assembled Roosevelt family and a close-up of Ethel Roosevelt Derby accompany the article.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

The Washington, D.C., police and Secret Service have made the New Haven police aware of a letter threatening President Roosevelt during his upcoming trip to celebrate the Yale bicentennial.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-10-20

Newspaper article describing an alleged incident which occurred while President Roosevelt was visiting St. Louis. A Memphis detective states that the Secret Service had to detain a clairvoyant, who warned President Roosevelt against traveling to the Southern States.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-10-09

President Theodore Roosevelt, Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte, and others have come to Muskogee, Oklahoma, to investigate a fraud case involving Oklahoma Governor Charles Nathaniel Haskell. Haskell, along with J. George Wright and Dana H. Kelsey, are accused of scheduling land deeds to “dummy” persons. Governor Haskell has issued a formal statement rebutting these accusations.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-01-22

As President Roosevelt’s presidency comes to an end, he faces resistance from the House of Representatives over his request to increase the budget of the Secret Service and backlash from the Senate for not trust busting the United States Steel Corporation’s acquisition of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-01-08

President Roosevelt is not surprised that President Wilson of Princeton had a change of heart. He also regrets that he is unable to accept the invitation to the Ivy Club, mainly due to his large entourage which makes it hard for him to go anywhere. Two copies.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1905-08-03

President Roosevelt writes to his son Kermit to tell him about the dance they had for Ethel Roosevelt at the White House and his trouble with Congress over the Secret Service. He goes into detail about the guns they will be using on their African hunting trip, including one lent to them by John Jay White. He adds that Quentin Roosevelt was punished for leaving school without permission and he and Mother are worried about him. Roosevelt enclosed a list of the English donors of his rifle.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1909-01-10

Chief Sylvester encloses a list and description of arrests from February 1903 to December 1905 that involved women with questionable mental states.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-01-19

President Roosevelt writes to his son Kermit to say he will see him in February for Alice Roosevelt’s wedding. Roosevelt says January and February are the hardest months because of all the social obligations and no time for exercise. He has ridden with Edith and sometimes Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Secretary of State Elihu Root, and Secretary of War William H. Taft. Roosevelt ends by saying Keating, who he put in the Secret Service, went on one of his “sprees” and died of heart failure.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1906-01-08

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-01-31

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Recipient

Cortelyou, George B. (George Bruce), 1862-1940

George B. Cortelyou informs Secret Service chief John E. Wilkie about the schedule and security plans for President Roosevelt’s upcoming visit to Farmington, Connecticut. Cortelyou stresses the importance of security in the train cars that Roosevelt and his party use, as well as the importance of security in crowds.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-10-19

George B. Cortelyou advises Richard Sylvester, Superintendent of the Washington, D.C., police, about the timing and security details of President Roosevelt’s upcoming trip to Farmington, Connecticut.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-10-19

Charles Krumm informs George B. Cortelyou that he has given a description of the three men to members of the United States Secret Service. Krumm is willing to come to Washington, D.C., to personally identify the men, but asks that Cortelyou pay the expenses of the trip so that he can afford to travel there.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-09-24

William Loeb returns the report of William J. Flynn to W.H. Moran. Loeb found it very interesting and advises that it should be followed up.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-11-16

Theodore Roosevelt has forwarded W. A. Sanford’s letter to the United States Secret Service Department.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1918-01-24

Frank Harper assures Edwin T. Earl that all efforts are being made to protect Theodore Roosevelt, including a secret service agent posted at Sagamore Hill.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-10-26

Theodore Roosevelt introduces Otto F. Klinke to Nicholas Longworth and greatly praises Klinke.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-06

Theodore Roosevelt writes to Director of the Secret Service Flynn on behalf of Arthur Donovan, son of Professor Mike Donovan, for a position in the secret service. Roosevelt explains Arthur Donovan’s boxing career and his qualifications and believes that he will be as good as some of the agents who protected him, including Frank H. Tyree, Stephen A. Connell, and James E. Sloan.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-02-13