President Theodore Roosevelt Frankly Assesses What He Considers Qualifications For Holding Office
He writes, “It is he who is benefited by being in the diplomatic service – not the diplomatic service that has been benefited by him".
Whether I can keep him or not depends upon whether or not there is some man with more claim than he has
Alfred Henry Lewis was an investigative journalist, novelist, editor, and short story writer. Like Roosevelt, he traveled in the west during the frontier days, and he collected lore...
Whether I can keep him or not depends upon whether or not there is some man with more claim than he has
Alfred Henry Lewis was an investigative journalist, novelist, editor, and short story writer. Like Roosevelt, he traveled in the west during the frontier days, and he collected lore from the colorful characters there. The cowboys and miners Lewis met in his western travels became the dominant figures in his books. In 1896 Lewis became the Washington correspondent for the Hearst newspapers, doing fiction and political writing for them. He established a reputation as one of the foremost political writers of the country and a foremost advocate for the Progressive philosophy. His books included westerns and “The Boss”, a story about the corruption of politics in New York City, among many others. He was precisely the sort of man who Theodore Roosevelt would choose as a colleague and indeed friend. In 1905, he selected Lewis to edit “A Compilation of the Messages and Speeches of Theodore Roosevelt 1901 – 1905.”
Typed Letter Signed, on White House letterhead, Washington, December 6, 1904, to Lewis, maintaining high standards for government service. “I do not think Townsend has any special claim, although many excellent people have written for him. He's a good fellow, a gentlemen, a cultured man, and comes in that mass of men who do perfectly well in an ordinary diplomatic position where there is nothing of importance to do, but where it is a nice thing to see the conventional and really important part of the work done in good shape. In other words it is he who is benefited by being in the diplomatic service – not the diplomatic service that has been benefited by him. Whether I can keep him or not depends upon whether or not there is some man with more claim than he has.”

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