Historic Site, New York City; Dr. Betty Boyd Caroli; Dr. Robert Mackay,
Executive Director of the Society for the Preservation of Long Island
Antiquities; Linda E. Milano; Austin O’Brien from the New York State
Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation; and all the members
of the gubernatorial centennial commission. Special thanks are due to the
Homeland Foundation of New York for a generous grant to help cover the
costs of this CD-ROM; and to the Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.,
Westport, Connecticut, for permission to reproduce the copyrighted 1989
edition of the Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia.
The Kansas editor William Allen White wrote in his foreword to the
first edition of the Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia: “Well, here is his
teaching from A to Izzard. We can’t go wrong if we follow it. We are likely
to go badly astray if once more we think we know better.” That seemed
clearer in the 1940s than it had when Theodore Roosevelt died; and there
are many who think that TR’s life and example and teachings remain
relevant to Americans, and indeed to free peoples everywhere, as we enter
the twenty first century.
John Allen Gable
Oyster Bay, New York Executive Director
July 4, 2000 Theodore Roosevelt Association