Former Secretary of State Elihu Root to President Calvin Coolidge: July 22, 1924.

Elihu Root here offers his assessment of the state of American politics to President Coolidge. Root was a Republican eminence, having served in the cabinets of William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt, as well as in the Senate, where Root represented New York. With the 1924 presidential campaign in full swing, Root states that the Republican party must continue to stand for economy, enterprise, international involvement without entanglement, and sensible (rather than demagogic) pro-farmer policies. On quite a similar platform to the one here described, Coolidge would win the upcoming election overwhelmingly, taking more votes than both his Democratic opponent, John Davis, and LaFollete combined.