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1916/12/05
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
to Bella W. Swope re: running for a second term
Signed as President on White House stationery. WW notes that "I look forward to the next four years with something of a sinking heart...."
GLC02793.067
1928/04/20
Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933
to Francis Prescott re: his determination not to seek another term
Signed as President on White House stationery. Prescott was chairman of the Massachusetts Republican State Committee.
GLC02793.077
1908/03/14
Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908
to Willie Olcott Burr re: Nebraska Democratic platform & other proposals [Bryan]
Signed as a former President, concerning his feelings on the Nebraska Democratic platform and implicitly, the rise of populism and William Jennings Bryan. Cleveland advocate the "old Democratic creed."
GLC02925.05
24 December 1908
Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930
to Herbert Parsons re: endorsement of Jacob M. Dickinson for Attorney General
Signed as President-elect. With autograph postscript. Dicksinson served 1909-11 as Taft's Secretary of War.
GLC03509
[1919]
Rules of the House of Warriors Adopted 12-07-1903 [Creek Indians]
Pamphlet containing rules of behavior when in assembly. Printed in English and Creek.
GLC03775.02
1910 ca.
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Signed White House card
Printed card signed by "Theodore Roosevelt" undated.
GLC03663.04
19 April 1918
to Harvey
Discusses using President Wilson's quote of 1 January in a newspaper article. Criticizes Wilson's prosecution of the war in Europe. Says that Wilson can speed up the war and come "to the left of our allies before it is too late, by just one...
GLC03663.01
09 May 1907
Mosby, John S., 1833-1916
to Sam Chapman
Written on stationery of the Department of Justice. Discusses Grant's endorsement of Lee's pardon after the war, and Johnson's refusal to grant it. He discusses politics during the Reconstruction era. He comments "there was more vindictiveness...
GLC03293
02 January 1912
[Presidential commutation of sentence of Robert Sawyer, convicted of murder and sentenced to death, 10 November 1905]
Sawyer had been convicted of murder on the high seas in the U.S. Circuit Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. He was originally sentenced to death, but that sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. Taft commuted his sentence so it...
GLC03579.01
2 April 1917
A message calling for war with the imperial German government in defense of American rights
Subtitled "Delivered by President Woodrow Wilson to the Congress of the United States of America on Monday, April the Second, in the year nineteen hundred seventeen."
GLC03621
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