ROOSEVELT, THEODORE, President . Typed letter signed ("Theodore Roosevelt") as President, to Univ. of California President Benjamin I. Wheeler, Washington, D.C., 27 September 1907. 1 page, 4to, integral blank, White House stationery . Fine. "BULLY FOR YOU" A cryptic note: "Bully for you. I wish we had you as Senator from a good many different States! I guess there is nothing for me to bother myself anymore about in this particlular matter..." "Bully for you," a popular nineteenth- and early twentieth-century colloquial exhortation, was not coined by Teddy Roosevelt. But his public use of it, as President, was a striking example of his ability to speak the language of the common man. The phrase became a virtual trademark in the 1904 election.
ROOSEVELT, THEODORE, President . Typed letter signed ("Theodore Roosevelt") as President, to Univ. of California President Benjamin I. Wheeler, Washington, D.C., 27 September 1907. 1 page, 4to, integral blank, White House stationery . Fine. "BULLY FOR YOU" A cryptic note: "Bully for you. I wish we had you as Senator from a good many different States! I guess there is nothing for me to bother myself anymore about in this particlular matter..." "Bully for you," a popular nineteenth- and early twentieth-century colloquial exhortation, was not coined by Teddy Roosevelt. But his public use of it, as President, was a striking example of his ability to speak the language of the common man. The phrase became a virtual trademark in the 1904 election.
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