CLOSING YEAR OF MY BERLIN EMBASSY-1902 215 



the Embassy, that you have been able to serve your country 

 as it has been served by but a very limited number of people in 

 your generation. You have done much for it in word and in 

 deed. You have adhered to a lofty ideal and yet have Been abso 

 lutely practical and, therefore, efficient, so that you are a per 

 petual example to young men how to avoid alike the Scylla of in 

 difference and the Charybdis of efficiency for the wrong .... 

 With regards and warm respect and admiration, 



Faithfully yours, 



(Signed) THEODORE ROOSEVELT. 

 HON. ANDREW D. WHITE, 



Ambassador to Germany, 

 Berlin, Germany. 



WHITE HOUSE, 



WASHINGTON. 



OYSTER BAY, NEW YORK, 



September 15, 1902. 

 MY DEAR MR. AMBASSADOR: 



Will you read the inclosed on your seventieth birthday? 

 have sealed it so you can break the seal then. 



Faithfully yours, 



(Signed) THEODORE ROOSEVELT. 

 HON. AJSTDREW D. WHITE, 



U. S. Ambassador, 

 Berlin, Germany. 



WHITE HOUSE, 



WASHINGTON. 



OYSTER BAY, 



September 15, 1902. 

 MY DEAR MR. AMBASSADOR: 



On the day you open this you will be seventy years old. I 

 cannot forbear writing you a line to express the obligation which 

 all the American people are under to you. As a diplomat you 

 have come in that class whose foremost exponents are Benja- 



