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ON HIS MAN WITH THE MUCK RAKE SPEECH ROOSEVELT, THEODORE. Typed Letter Signed, as President, to Lyman Abbott, asking his opinion on his "Man with the
ON HIS MAN WITH THE MUCK RAKE SPEECH ROOSEVELT, THEODORE. Typed Letter Signed, as President, to Lyman Abbott, asking his opinion on his "Man with the Muck-rake" speech, discussing his comments in the speech concerning "big fortunes," and on another matter. 1 page, folded small 4to sheet, with integral blank, White House stationery; usual fold. Washington, 12 April 1905
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Notes: "... I hope you like my 'Man with the Muck-rake' speech. Of course you noticed that in the tail of the speech I took pretty advanced ground about the big fortunes. I hear well of Lord. In such a matter I should be inclined to pay great heed to the opinions of Faulkner, Winthrop, and the others on the ground..."
Roosevelt's famous Muck Rake speech was given on 15 April 1905 (three days after this letter, suggesting that Roosevelt sent Lyman an advance copy for his comments) at a ceremony for the laying of the cornerstone of the Cannon Office Building. The speech not only coined the term muckraker, but was one of Roosevelt's most notable critiques of the Progressive movement.
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