ROOSEVELT, Theodore. Typed letter signed ("Theodore Roosevelt") with autograph addition, to O[scar] K. Davis of The New York Times , New York, 31 May 1911. 1 page, 4to, on bold headed stationery of "The Outlook." Boldly signed .
ROOSEVELT, Theodore. Typed letter signed ("Theodore Roosevelt") with autograph addition, to O[scar] K. Davis of The New York Times , New York, 31 May 1911. 1 page, 4to, on bold headed stationery of "The Outlook." Boldly signed . "NO SITUATION COULD ARISE WHICH WOULD MAKE IT POSSIBLE FOR ME TO ACCEPT A NOMINATION [FOR PRESIDENT]" Roosevelt, very much aware of widespread support for the idea of his mounting yet another run for the Presidency, offers a discreet slap at the administration of his hand-picked successor, Taft: "What an awful tangle things are in at Washington! I get almost as much disgusted with most of the progressives as with the stand-pat crowd..." Writing to the Times bureau chief, he states that he has no concerns about Davis's article (which he has not yet read): "I am certain that nothing you say in any article will be unsatisfactory." Then, choosing his words with care, Roosevelt adds, rather disingenuously, "as far as I can see, no situation could arise which would make it possible for me to accept a nomination next year. However, this is academic, for I think we have taken steps to prevent all agitation on the subject. I have explained that every friend of mine will show his friendship by seeing that there is no movement started to have me nominated." Not quite a year later, Roosevelt formally declared himself a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. But when the Taft forces effectively shut him out in the June convention, Roosevelt bolted the party to form his own "Bull-Moose" party, creating a rift that ultimately ensured a Democratic victory for Wilson in the 1912 election. Roosevelt "was a past master of the leak, the trial balloon, and the unattributed source, and resorted to them to float policy," one biographer notes, and he "was not above denouncing the reporter to whom he had leaked the story as a liar and a fraud..." He "realized that by addressing the working press he could override the effect of the editorial pages" (N. Miller, Theodore Roosevelt , p.421).
ROOSEVELT, Theodore. Typed letter signed ("Theodore Roosevelt") with autograph addition, to O[scar] K. Davis of The New York Times , New York, 31 May 1911. 1 page, 4to, on bold headed stationery of "The Outlook." Boldly signed .
ROOSEVELT, Theodore. Typed letter signed ("Theodore Roosevelt") with autograph addition, to O[scar] K. Davis of The New York Times , New York, 31 May 1911. 1 page, 4to, on bold headed stationery of "The Outlook." Boldly signed . "NO SITUATION COULD ARISE WHICH WOULD MAKE IT POSSIBLE FOR ME TO ACCEPT A NOMINATION [FOR PRESIDENT]" Roosevelt, very much aware of widespread support for the idea of his mounting yet another run for the Presidency, offers a discreet slap at the administration of his hand-picked successor, Taft: "What an awful tangle things are in at Washington! I get almost as much disgusted with most of the progressives as with the stand-pat crowd..." Writing to the Times bureau chief, he states that he has no concerns about Davis's article (which he has not yet read): "I am certain that nothing you say in any article will be unsatisfactory." Then, choosing his words with care, Roosevelt adds, rather disingenuously, "as far as I can see, no situation could arise which would make it possible for me to accept a nomination next year. However, this is academic, for I think we have taken steps to prevent all agitation on the subject. I have explained that every friend of mine will show his friendship by seeing that there is no movement started to have me nominated." Not quite a year later, Roosevelt formally declared himself a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. But when the Taft forces effectively shut him out in the June convention, Roosevelt bolted the party to form his own "Bull-Moose" party, creating a rift that ultimately ensured a Democratic victory for Wilson in the 1912 election. Roosevelt "was a past master of the leak, the trial balloon, and the unattributed source, and resorted to them to float policy," one biographer notes, and he "was not above denouncing the reporter to whom he had leaked the story as a liar and a fraud..." He "realized that by addressing the working press he could override the effect of the editorial pages" (N. Miller, Theodore Roosevelt , p.421).
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