ROOSEVELT, Theodore]. ABBOTT, Lyman. Typed memo signed ("Lyman Abbott"), TO THEODORE ROOSEVELT, titled "Memorandum of Political Conditions in U.S., March 22, 1910." 5 pages, 4to , with 7-line autograph postscript by Abbott on signature page. Addressed in pencil at top, "For Mr. Roosevelt in Europe."
ROOSEVELT, Theodore]. ABBOTT, Lyman. Typed memo signed ("Lyman Abbott"), TO THEODORE ROOSEVELT, titled "Memorandum of Political Conditions in U.S., March 22, 1910." 5 pages, 4to , with 7-line autograph postscript by Abbott on signature page. Addressed in pencil at top, "For Mr. Roosevelt in Europe." A LEGACY BETRAYED: TAFT SELLS OUT ROOSEVELT'S CONSERVATIONIST POLICIES TO BIG BUSINESS A critical dissection of the Taft presidency and its problems, prepared by the editor of Outlook magazine for T. R. upon his return from his famous post-presidential safari. "Whether Mr. Taft can ever get either his Administration or the party together again remains to be seen," Abbott writes, and he goes on to accuse Taft of running a disorganized, divided and strangely leaderless administration. In the most glaring example Abbott provides, Taft stood by and did nothing when the highly regarded head of the Forestry Service, Gifford Pinchot, was muscled out of the government by Interior Secretary Richard A. Ballinger (Pinchot and Ballinger clashed over whether to allow coal mining in the Alaska forest reserves). Ballinger, Abbott writes, was seen by "a great many throughout the country" as "at heart opposed to the policy of conservation and [of] using his political power against that policy." Finally, Abbott accuses Taft of being "rather slower than the average man in reaching a conclusion and pressing for action, and his predecessor was very much quicker than ordinary men...This contrast has produced a public impression that Mr. Taft is indolent...and no one knows better than yourself that unfounded prejudices are sometimes temporarily as judgments that are well founded." T.R. clearly took these criticisms to heart when shaping his robust and energetic challenge to Taft over the following months. Taft's abandonment of his cherished conservation policies was like waving red rag in front of this Bull Moose. When Roosevelt returned to the States in June 1910, he charged at Taft along the lines laid out in Abbott's memo, calling him "an utterly commonplace leader...feebly well-meaning...and totally unable to grasp or put into execution any great policy."
ROOSEVELT, Theodore]. ABBOTT, Lyman. Typed memo signed ("Lyman Abbott"), TO THEODORE ROOSEVELT, titled "Memorandum of Political Conditions in U.S., March 22, 1910." 5 pages, 4to , with 7-line autograph postscript by Abbott on signature page. Addressed in pencil at top, "For Mr. Roosevelt in Europe."
ROOSEVELT, Theodore]. ABBOTT, Lyman. Typed memo signed ("Lyman Abbott"), TO THEODORE ROOSEVELT, titled "Memorandum of Political Conditions in U.S., March 22, 1910." 5 pages, 4to , with 7-line autograph postscript by Abbott on signature page. Addressed in pencil at top, "For Mr. Roosevelt in Europe." A LEGACY BETRAYED: TAFT SELLS OUT ROOSEVELT'S CONSERVATIONIST POLICIES TO BIG BUSINESS A critical dissection of the Taft presidency and its problems, prepared by the editor of Outlook magazine for T. R. upon his return from his famous post-presidential safari. "Whether Mr. Taft can ever get either his Administration or the party together again remains to be seen," Abbott writes, and he goes on to accuse Taft of running a disorganized, divided and strangely leaderless administration. In the most glaring example Abbott provides, Taft stood by and did nothing when the highly regarded head of the Forestry Service, Gifford Pinchot, was muscled out of the government by Interior Secretary Richard A. Ballinger (Pinchot and Ballinger clashed over whether to allow coal mining in the Alaska forest reserves). Ballinger, Abbott writes, was seen by "a great many throughout the country" as "at heart opposed to the policy of conservation and [of] using his political power against that policy." Finally, Abbott accuses Taft of being "rather slower than the average man in reaching a conclusion and pressing for action, and his predecessor was very much quicker than ordinary men...This contrast has produced a public impression that Mr. Taft is indolent...and no one knows better than yourself that unfounded prejudices are sometimes temporarily as judgments that are well founded." T.R. clearly took these criticisms to heart when shaping his robust and energetic challenge to Taft over the following months. Taft's abandonment of his cherished conservation policies was like waving red rag in front of this Bull Moose. When Roosevelt returned to the States in June 1910, he charged at Taft along the lines laid out in Abbott's memo, calling him "an utterly commonplace leader...feebly well-meaning...and totally unable to grasp or put into execution any great policy."
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