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“WILSON DELIBERATELY PROSTITUTED
THEWELFARE OFTHE COUNTRY”
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ROOSEVELT,THEODORE.Typed Letter Signed, with a holograph addition, to
Edwin A.VanValkenburg (“My dear VanValkenburg”), suggesting that a letter complemen-
tary of Roosevelt be published in
The North American
and expressing disdain for Wilson’s
appointment of William Jennings Bryan and Josephus Daniels to his cabinet. 2 pages, 4to,
personal stationery, written on separate sheets; faint smudging to signature, paper clip stains
to upper edge of second page, folds. (TFC)
Oyster Bay, 11 May 1916
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. . . Our people have not condemned Wilson as he deserves to be condemned for paying his
political debts to the Byranites by the two infamous political appointments of Bryan as Secretary
of State and Daniels as Secretary of the Navy. Mr.Wilson deliberately prostituted the welfare of
the country to personal and factional considerations in these and minor appointments; he did it
on a worse scale and on a larger scale than any American President in my time has done . . . .”
“MEN JOINEDTHE ENGINEERS CORPS . . .
[TO] HAVETHE EASIER AND SAFER JOB”
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ROOSEVELT,THEODORE.Typed Letter Signed, with a few holograph correc-
tions, disavowing a remark attributed to him which slighted the Engineers Corps. 1 page,
4to, “Metropolitan” stationery; evenly toned, complete separation at horizontal fold, signa-
ture light (but very legible). (TFC)
NewYork, 11 December 1917
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“
You say that . . . it was reported that I had said ‘that the only reason the men joined the
Engineers Corps was so that they would have the easier and safer job, than if they had to fight
in the trenches.’
“
I wonder why the good people who are concerned over such a wicked and baseless slander
should forget that one of my four sons is in the Engineers Corps. . . . I never made any such
remark and to assert that I did is a wicked and infamous falsehood without a particle of truth. . . .”