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President Roosevelt agrees with William A. Gaston. He would like to briefly discuss his experience in politics with the class, and will give “side eulogies on Oswald Villard and certain other gentlemen.” Roosevelt insists, however, no newspaper men or the public must be admitted, although delegations from other classes can attend.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-06-12
President Roosevelt informs the United States Civil Service Commission he would like to have complete registers of laborers in Washington, D.C., and throughout the country, and inquires if it would also be possible for temporary appointees to sign statements acknowledging they do not expect a permanent place. Roosevelt believes the commission should disregard “the spoils-hunting politician” as well as the “unwholesome crank.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-12-23
President Roosevelt tells James Ford Rhodes he has just finished reading his fifth volume, which has tied in well with Roosevelt’s other readings of Thomas Babington Macaulay’s History and Abraham Lincoln’s letters and speeches. Although the president agrees with Rhodes that the right is not all on one side and the wrong is not all on the other in quarrels, Roosevelt thinks the American Civil War is the exception, as he believes “the right was exclusively with the Union people.” Roosevelt talks about his plans to build up the Navy to avoid war, believing the Panama Canal will help. Finally, he discusses problems he has been having with the tariff and Southern states. He disagrees with Rhodes that the South is not trying to reinstate slavery, as there is peonage in three states right now. Roosevelt closes by mentioning how his opponents helped him during the election campaign.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-11-29
President Roosevelt thanks George Haven Putnam for his letter, but wants to correct him on one point. Roosevelt explains he has dealt with senators like Matthew Stanley Quay not because they made him president but because he wanted to succeed in his policies by working with prominent men in the Republican Party. The president says that the results of the presidential election will not make any real change in his attitude toward them. Roosevelt also explains confidentially he is trying to do all he can regarding the tariff revision and reciprocity.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-11-15
President Roosevelt hopes to see Francis E. Leupp and his wife, Ada Lewis Leupp, at lunch on Friday. Roosevelt asks if Leupp has seen an enclosed clipping, and muses about what Robert C. Ogden or Oswald Garrison Villard think about race relations having become an important issue in the presidential campaign.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-11-01
President Roosevelt does trust the “mental honesty” of Rollo Ogden and Oswald Garrison Villard and is not surprised they are supporting Alton B. Parker and the Democratic Party.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-11
President Roosevelt suggests that Joseph Bucklin Bishop write to Elihu Root and urge him to run. Roosevelt wonders if Bishop can be more critical of Alton B. Parker and Thomas Taggart as other newspapers have been critical of Roosevelt’s “imaginary dealings” with John Edward Charles O’Sullivan Addicks.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-01
President Roosevelt questions Oswald Garrison Villard’s statements that General Leonard Wood should have done more to prevent his relatives from engaging in business in Cuba while he was head of the government. Roosevelt believes that instructing officials to favor all other businesses exhausted Wood’s power.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-01-07
William Merriam Chadbourne recalls a speech Theodore Roosevelt gave to the Intercollegiate Civic League several years ago, and attributes the organization’s success to that endorsement. The league will be holding its annual convention in Washington, D.C., soon, and Chadbourne asks whether Roosevelt will be back from his upcoming trip by then, and whether he would be willing to address the organization again. Chadbourne hopes to speak personally with Roosevelt some time when he is not so busy.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-27
Chadbourne, William Merriam, 1879-1964
Charles William Anderson encloses a letter that will show that Stewart L. Woodford is likely involved in a scheme to organize bolts of African American men across the South. At the conference, Anderson noted that Charles Evans Hughes could not be nominated, and Woodford took exception. Anderson relays his role in the conference to William Loeb.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-05-01
Newspaper article on the “degeneration” of the Villard family. The article unfavorably compares the crimes of Henry Villard to the crimes of his son, Oswald Garrison Villard. Henry Villard stole from the public and Oswarld Garrison Villard stole his sister’s inheritance.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-03-05
Booker T. Washington sends clippings of two editorials to President Roosevelt. One is a statement of approval by Oswald Garrison Villard on Roosevelt’s Lincoln Birthday Address. This second regards Roosevelt’s appointments in Alabama.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-03-09
Booker T. Washington is disappointed by the attitude of the New York Evening Post. When Washington met with Rollo Ogden and Oswald Garrison Villard, they promised to support President Roosevelt because of his attitude towards black people. Washington believes it would be best if Roosevelt did not discuss the “Southern question” in his letter of acceptance. Washington plans to submit an article to Dr. Abbott of the Outlook concerning what Roosevelt has done “in the way of purifying official life in the South.”
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1904-08-10
In a letter to James Ford Rhodes, President Roosevelt asserts that the South was in the wrong on every issue in the American Civil War, and argues for the buildup of the Navy to avert war. Roosevelt also believes that there exists a serious movement to reestablish slavery in the Southern states in the form of peonage, and he criticizes various politicians and intellectuals in the North for either supporting the South or being ineffective in their criticism of it.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1904-11-29
Alan R. Havig examines the effort of the Roosevelt Memorial Association (RMA) to secure a site on the Washington, D.C., mall to erect a memorial to Theodore Roosevelt. Havig argues that it was not the grandiose design by architect John Russell Pope that doomed the proposal, but that many in and out of Congress felt that constructing a memorial to Roosevelt in the 1920s was too soon after his death. Other critics argued that Roosevelt had not yet earned a place among the memorials to George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Havig notes that Roosevelt, while denied a monument in the nation’s capital, would gain a memorial on Theodore Roosevelt Island in 1967, and he would earn a place on South Dakota’s Mount Rushmore among the figures that he was deemed unworthy of joining in the 1920s.
Four illustrations, three photographs of memorials to Roosevelt, and the logo of the Theodore Roosevelt Association populate the essay.
Joseph Bucklin Bishop sends President Roosevelt two enclosures regarding the views of “old” Villard and “young” Villard.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-03-10
Ernest Hamlin Abbott responds to President Roosevelt’s inquiry concerning The Outlook’s editorial on Roosevelt’s resolution of the threatened bookbinders’ strike and encloses documents Roosevelt had sent to Abbott’s father, Lyman Abbott.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-08-04
Lyman Abbott agrees with President Roosevelt regarding the William A. Miller case, and will address it in an editorial in The Outlook. He is leaving for the coast of Maine, but if the President issues a report on the Post Office investigation, Abbott’s son Ernest Hamlin Abbott would go to Washington or Oyster Bay to review the report and prepare an editorial.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-07-28
Secretary of War Root informs President Roosevelt that he intends to support the nominations and records of general officers appointed by President McKinley and Roosevelt that have been impugned by Oswald Garrison Villard. Root mentions a letter from William H. Taft, and he has called a meeting for the new joint Army and Navy Board.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-07-22