Letter to Enoch Crowder from Theodore Roosevelt - August 19, 1917
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(Copy) Oyster Bay Long Island, N.Y. August 19, 1917. My dear General Crowder: As I am writing to Harry Stimson, I shall ask him to give you this line of hearty congratulation and admiration for what you have done. I regard your work with the draft as one of the best specific bits of work our Army has done in my time; I knew you would do well, but I had no idea how very well it would be. I hope that now you will be given a field command -- just as I gave Weston a field, a line, command after he had done such capital work in the Commissary Department. I am a great believer in alternating line and staff duties where the man has it in him to do both kinds of work -- as you have. However this turns out, let me repeat that of all our people in the first six months of the war you are the man who has actually accomplished most, the man to whom all good Americans should be most grateful. I respect -- and I fear that I envy! -- the man who has earned the right to have this said of him. Faithfully yours, (Signed- Theodore Roosevelt)
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| Title | Letter to Enoch Crowder from Theodore Roosevelt - August 19, 1917 |
| Creator | Roosevelt, Theodore |
| Source | Roosevelt, Theodore. Letter to Enoch Crowder. 19 August 1917. Crowder, Enoch H. (1859-1932), Papers, 1884-1942. C1046. The State Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia, MO. |
| Description | In this letter, Theodore Roosevelt congratulated General Enoch Crowder on his work with the draft. Roosevelt stated that he believed the draft law was the best piece of work the Army accomplished during his time. He also expressed his hopes for Crowder to receive a field position. This document is part of a collection compiled by Enoch Herbert Crowder, the Edinburg, Grundy County, Missouri native who served as Judge Advocate General. Crowder devised the Selective Service Act in 1917 which drafted America's forces during World War I. |
| Subject LCSH | Crowder, E. H. (Enoch Herbert), 1859-1932; United States. Army--Recruiting, enlistment, etc.-- World War, 1914-1918; Draft--Law and legislation; Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919. |
| Subject Local | WWI; World War I; Selective Service Act of 1917 |
| Site Accession Number | C1046 |
| Contributing Institution | The State Historical Society of Missouri |
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| Date Original | August 19, 1917 |
| Language | English |