The Tar Baby and the Tomahawk: Race and Ethnic Images in American Children's Literature, 1880-1939

cots.roosevelt.IMG.0100.jpg

All right; of course I will see Colonel Jones. I do not know whether we have any vacancies for brigadier general coming before February next or not; and, my dear Uncle Remus, I wish you could sit in this chair for a little while just to see for yourself how puzzled a man gets, even with the best intentions and after the most careful and painstaking scrutiny in the effort to decide exactly which officer out of a great many good officers who can not all be promoted, is the one who preeminently ought to be promoted. I know I make errors, and often pass by worthy men, and occasionally (altho I hope not often) promote men who are less worthy; but I am doing my best! Unless he is a full Colonel, I am afraid he can't be promoted

I do not think there was an evening at the White House that we have all of us enjoyed more than the one
cots.roosevelt.IMG.0101.jpg that you were here.

Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt