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ROOSEVELT, Theodore. Typed letter signed ("Theodore Roosevelt") to Mrs. Adolph Mensing, 10 October 1901. 1 page, 4to, Executive Mansion stationery, mourning paper.
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ROOSEVELT, Theodore. Typed letter signed ("Theodore Roosevelt") to Mrs. Adolph Mensing, 10 October 1901. 1 page, 4to, Executive Mansion stationery, mourning paper.
"INDEED I AM NOT ANTI-GERMAN, Roosevelt tells Mrs. Mensing, just over a month after assuming the Presidency after McKinley's assassination. "On the contrary I am very fond of the Germans individually and most anxious to keep the two nations in close ties of friendship and good-will." Roosevelt visited Germany as a teenager and lived with a German family for five months. He also studied German at Harvard. Relations remained cordial between the U.S. and Kaiser Reich, as both were becoming world powers through expanded navies and overseas possessions (the Americans in the Pacific and the Germans primarily in Africa). But Germany's ambitions put it into confrontation with its European neighbors. Roosevelt changed his attitude once the Great War of 1914 erupted, and loudly attacked Woodrow Wilson for failing to join the fight against Germany.
"INDEED I AM NOT ANTI-GERMAN, Roosevelt tells Mrs. Mensing, just over a month after assuming the Presidency after McKinley's assassination. "On the contrary I am very fond of the Germans individually and most anxious to keep the two nations in close ties of friendship and good-will." Roosevelt visited Germany as a teenager and lived with a German family for five months. He also studied German at Harvard. Relations remained cordial between the U.S. and Kaiser Reich, as both were becoming world powers through expanded navies and overseas possessions (the Americans in the Pacific and the Germans primarily in Africa). But Germany's ambitions put it into confrontation with its European neighbors. Roosevelt changed his attitude once the Great War of 1914 erupted, and loudly attacked Woodrow Wilson for failing to join the fight against Germany.