There can be no greater issue than that of archiving in this country

October 17, 2018 6:18 PM

The largest collection of the papers of President Theodore Roosevelt has been digitized and is now available online from the Library of Congress. Consisting of 276,000 documents and 461,000 images, the collection includes letters, speeches, executive orders, scrapbooks, diaries, White House reception records and press releases of his administration, as well as family records.

It will take you some time to RTFA.

posted by waninggibbon (3 comments total)

Ever since I learned about it in the Ken Burns documentary about the Roosevelts, I've probably thought 100 times about his diary entry on the day when his first wife and his mother both died. That fucking X.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 6:45 PM on October 17, 2018 [9 favorites]

STOP TREATING YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS LIKE DEMI-GODS!
posted by thatwhichfalls at 6:36 AM on October 18, 2018 [1 favorite]

TR was more than a deity. He was the First Meme.
posted by Apocryphon at 9:18 AM on October 18, 2018 [1 favorite]