[Rarebooks] FS: Teddy Roosevelt: "Make American democracy safe for the world"
Charles Agvent
agvent at erols.com
Tue Apr 4 15:48:38 EDT 2006
From our upcoming catalogue of SIGNED PRESIDENTIAL material to be posted on our
website tomorrow: http://www.erols.com/agvent. Also included will be important
signed and association copies of LBJ, Harry Truman and Franklin Roosevelt.
ROOSEVELT, Theodore (Teddy). TYPED LETTER SIGNED WITH HOLOGRAPH
CORRECTIONS: "Make American democracy safe for the world". New York:
12 July 1917. A superb letter on METROPOLITAN magazine stationery to
Professor Abram S. Isaacs of the Department of Semitics at New York
University dated 12 July 1917. Roosevelt tells Isaacs that he has
received many letters in the last few days, "but both Mrs. Roosevelt
and I, on the whole, value your letter more than any other." He
compliments Isaacs on his statement and concludes: "Instead of being
hypocritical and bombastic about 'making the world safe for democracy,
' let us do what we can actually do, if we choose, and that is make
American democracy safe for the world." The United States entered
World War I in early 1917. Roosevelt was upset that he was not
allowed to go to Europe to participate, but he was gratified to learn
that his efforts in the spring of 1917 to secure a commission and
lead troops overseas were the immediate cause of the sending of
American troops. Surely this letter is related to Roosevelt's stand
on the war. It would be almost a year to the day on 14 July 1918 that
Roosevelt's youngest son, Quentin, would be killed in an air battle
in France. Some creasing and short tears at folds, still Very Good.
$2500.00
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