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Counsel Against the People

Four cases re: dangerous working conditions, victims inability to fight back due to ignorance and poverty, preference of big business over the common man; "Douglas assailed Abraham Lincoln... as these four great corporation lawyers have assailed me."...

GLC06944

to C. H. Betts

Responds to criticism from Betts over an article Roosevelt wrote in The Outlook denouncing the New York Court of Appeals for their decision to rule the workmen's compensation act unconstitutional. States that their conduct was, " ... a most flagrant...

GLC06422

[Analysis of the Lincoln-Douglas debates]

One typed document created by William H. Taft dated February 4, 1926. Pertains to the debate of slavery between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas. Two lines inserted in Taft's hand on page 14 and numerous other corrections. Signed and dated by...

GLC01488

to Dr. F. Terry Hambrecht re: enjoying "The Toy Shop" and a story of Lincoln

Written as President

GLC02793.119

[Press release of speech delivered on Memorial Day at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania]

Signed at end as President. Speech mentions the Civil War Battle of Gettysburg and Valley Forge during the Revolutionary War. Stresses the importance of uniting the country. Gives particular attention to the part played by George Washington as...

GLC03352

to Nathaniel Williams

Informs that President Andrew Jackson is to assist in the laying of the cornerstone of a monument to the memory of George Washington's mother on 7 May. States that members of the President's cabinet are invited to attend. Asks if a case Williams is...

GLC03545.08

to Eliakim P. Scammon

Hayes writes as Colonel of the 23rd Regiment of Ohio Volunteers to Brigadier General Scammon in Charleston. States that he sent Lieutenant William McKinley (later elected U.S. president) to tell Scammon about Confederate General Albert G. Jenkins's...

GLC02997

[Harry Truman and Ralph Bellamy]

One photograph of Harry Truman and Ralph Bellamy dated May 25, 1958. Features Truman and Bellamy shaking hands. The attached description notes that Bellamy is playing Truman's predecessor Franklin Roosevelt which is why he wears glasses similar to...

GLC08878.1471

to Henry B. Adams

"I am quite in sympathy with democratic principles; it is democratic practice that I object to... Jefferson has always been my pet aversion; to me he seems merely an intriguing doctrinaire, mighty in word and weak in action, revengeful but timid, of...

GLC05792

[Authority to affix the seal to a proclamation for the celebration of George Washington's birthday]

Partially printed order directing Secretary of State William H. Seward to affix the seal to a proclamation recommending the celebration of Washington's birthday. On February 19, 1862 Lincoln issued an official proclamation recommending that the...

GLC06038

G.O. no. 62 printing Lincoln's order for observing the Sabbath

Quoting George Washington. Signed by J. K. Wood.

GLC06783.07

Press release of last Presidential Address

Signed on page 2. Printed front and back. Discusses events of his presidency including the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the end of WWII and Korea. "I suppose that history will remember my term...as the years when the "Cold War" began to...

GLC06802

to W. S. Rainsford

Writes of Creel: "He can only find inconsistencies precisely as he can find them in the writings of Washington or Lincoln- that is, an occasional honest and necessary change of mind and ...circumstances which necessitated a change on my part...

GLC06881

to Vernon Smith

Sends thanks for the "treasured photographs of Abraham Lincoln" taken by Smith's grandfather. States that he will take great care of them and will eventually donate them to the Museum at Abilene. Accompanied by the President's schedule for March 12...

GLC07094.01

The President's Appointments Friday, March 12, 1954.

Eisenhower's schedule for the day showing an appointment at 8 AM to accept some photos of Abraham Lincoln from Vernon Smith, a worker in the Social Room. Smith's grandfather, who was a personal friend of Lincoln, took the photos. Also shows an 8:30...

GLC07094.02

to Solomon G. Haven re: blasting Loco Focos, inauguration of W.H. Harrison

GLC07499

First address to Congress re: death of Roosevelt and his legacy in Europe

"The Laws of God and Man have been violated and the guilty must not go unpunished." Typed document reproduced by an offset process. Signed on page 4.

GLC07529

Message from the President of the United States... [Pardon proclamation]

Pardon proclamation justifying his constitutional right to pardon, noting similar proclamations from previous presidents.

GLC07725

to John F. Mercer re: postponing visit with Madison to Mercer's estate

GLC07854

To Benjamin Rush

Scathing assessment of Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton, and Lafayette. "Washington had great advantages for obtaining Credence. He possessed a great Fortune, immense Lands, many Slaves, an excellent Consort, no Children."

GLC08023

Courier of New Hampshire [Vol. 10, no. 49 (January 4, 1800)]

Includes an obituary for George Washington, who died on 14 December 1799, along with a diagram depicting the positioning of Washington's pall bearers, and a detailed description of the funeral procession (page 3). Contains statements of remembrance...

GLC08826

The Significance of Lincoln

GLC08880.013

to John Q. Adams re: thanks for Fourth of July oration

GLC07806

To George Lorimer

Disputes with Theodore Roosevelt

GLC08052

to Benjamin Rush re: Jefferson and Madison's Presidential terms, War of 1812

"Those who brought us into this confusion are the best qualified to bring us out of it" (War of 1812).

GLC07492