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Senator Lodge agrees to visit the White House and relays Judge George Gray’s request that President Roosevelt visit him as he cannot scale the White House stairs in his condition.
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1902-05-20
The Laurel Ledger prints an article discussing Senator Tillman’s criticism of the removal of Laura A. Hull Morris from the White House. The article speaks highly of President Roosevelt and also describes where a “woman’s place” should be, claiming that if Morris had been in her place “attending to her duties at home” rather than “trying to influence the government in her hen-pecked husband’s behalf,” there would not have been an incident.
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1906-01-20
Chief Sylvester encloses a list and description of arrests from February 1903 to December 1905 that involved women with questionable mental states.
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1906-01-19
Private Jacob P. Frech describes his involvement in removing Laura A. Hull Morris from the White House. Frech claims that Morris was uncooperative, even kicking him in the groin. A witness claims that the guards used a reasonable amount of force considering the manner in which Morris protested her removal, calling her a “large, strong woman.”
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1906-01-19
Francis Joseph Andrew Darr writes to the editor of the New York Journal regarding Laura A. Hull Morris’s removal from the White House. Darr is critical of President Roosevelt, William Loeb, and Benjamin F. Barnes, stating that Morris “has the sympathy of all decent men and women.”
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1906-01-19
W. S. Couch writes an article detailing Senator Tillman’s verbal attack on President Roosevelt and call for investigation on the removal of Laura A. Hull Morris from the White House.
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1906-01-18
An article in the Springfield Daily News reports the ejection of Laura A. Hull Morris from the White House. The writer goes into great detail about Morris’s alleged respectability, her well-groomed and well-dressed appearance, and her reason for visiting the White House. The behavior of the White House staff and of Benjamin F. Barnes is highly criticized. The author also criticizes President Roosevelt, calling him “Czar Roosevelt” and claiming that anyone who disagrees with him is subject to this type of treatment. Furthermore the writer states that “such proceedings have no rival in any country but Russia.”
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1906-01-05
A brief article responds to the removal of Laura A. Hull Morris from the White House, stating that she was treated appropriately for her behavior and her social status should not matter.
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1906-01-06
Regarding the removal of Laura A. Hull Morris from the White House, the author argues that all individuals should be treated with respect, despite supposed mental states. In President Roosevelt’s White House, “traditions of dignity have been discarded.”
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1906-01-07
Statement from Assistant Secretary to the President, Benjamin F. Barnes, detailing the events of the Mrs. Morris incident.
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1906-01-09
An article responds to the removal of Laura A. Hull Morris from the White House, claiming that she, not the White House, was responsible for the “outrage against American womanhood” which ensued.
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1906-01-10
Report of the removal of Laura A. Hull Morris from the White House, emphasizing the mild mannered nature of Benjamin F. Barnes, Assistant Secretary to the President, during the event.
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1906-01-12
Lengthy news articles reporting on the Mrs. Morris incident and the Hamilton Bill, as well as a series of short news stories and satire.
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1906-01-11
President Roosevelt expresses his family’s joy at seeing Joseph Wilmer and asks that he come stay at the White House.
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1902-05-01
President Roosevelt writes to his son Kermit to say he is going to New Orleans, Louisiana, to please the people who feel they are cut off. Roosevelt was interested to hear that Kermit is playing the same position in football as Ted and is getting on better with the Rector. Roosevelt says he has been playing tennis with the French Ambassador. He closes by describing a walk with Edith and how much they enjoy the surroundings of the White House.
1905-10-05
President Roosevelt says the Republican National Convention meets the next day, and he is sure to be nominated to run for President again. He adds that he is proud of all he has accomplished as President and that no family has enjoyed the White House as much as the Roosevelts have. He also says that he and Edith spent Sunday at Philander C. Knox’s farm.
1904-06-21
J. Martin Miller sends samples of the photographs to be published in the new edition of The Triumphant Life of Theodore Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-23
Cupid appears on horseback, shooting two handguns into the air outside the North Portico of the White House, on the occasion of the wedding of Alice Lee Roosevelt, President Roosevelt’s daughter, and Nicholas Longworth. Caption: February 17th, 1906.
Theodore Roosevelt had such personal magnetism that cartoonist Carl Hassmann transformed Cupid himself into a cowboy for a day. That day saw the wedding of “Princess” Alice Lee Roosevelt and a Republican congressman from Ohio, Nicholas Longworth, a future Speaker of the House. The Longworth Office Building on Capitol Hill is named in his honor. The pair had known each other socially for several years, but a romance developed on a diplomatic trip to Japan and the Philippines in 1905 with Secretary of War William Howard Taft.
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt sits writing at a desk in the White House
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1903-03-02
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt sits at a desk in the White House
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1903-03-02