Memo from Edward House, Special Rep. to President Wilson: Interpretation of the Fourteen Points
File No. 763.72119/8979. Office of the Historian, n.d. https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1918Supp01v01/d340. Edward House, Special Representative to Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan, London, October 29, 1918 Following for the President from Colonel […]
Lansing’s Memorandum of the Cabinet Meeting
The Cabinet Meeting of today I consider the most momentous and therefore, the most historic of any of those which have been held since I became Secretary of State, since […]
Memorandum of Sir Edward Grey
(Confidential ) Colonel House told me that President Wilson was ready, on hearing from France and England that the moment was opportune, to propose that a Conference should be summoned […]
Opinion on the French Treaties
“IV. Opinion on the Treaties with France, 28 April 1793,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/vmoe. I PROCEED, in compliance with the requisition of the President, to give an opinion in writing […]
Reply to Notification Committee
Having served four years in the depths of a great, and yet unended national peril, I can view this call to a second term, in nowise more flatteringly to […]
Memorandum Regarding October 15 Meeting with MacArthur
We arrived at dawn. Gen. MacArthur was at the Airport with his shirt unbuttoned, wearing a greasy ham and eggs cap that evidently had been in use for twenty years. […]
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was a Southern poor white, of illegitimate birth, poorly educated and unusually ugly, awkward, ill-dressed. He liked smutty stories and was a politician down to his toes. Aristocrats—Jeff […]
Excerpts from the President’s Committee on Administrative Management
The board form of organization is unsuited to the work of a central personnel agency. This form of organization, as stated elsewhere in this report, has everywhere been found slow, […]
Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank
“Opinion on the Constitutionality of the Bill for Establishing a National Bank, 15 February 1791,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/cj18. The Bill for establishing a National Bank undertakes among other things: […]
Sketch of a Plan of American Finance
Preliminary. Consider all requisitions heretofore made by Congress on the states, as if they had never been made. This gets rid of the adjustment of quotas for the past. The […]