The Munsey Magazine, July 1908

# Museum Catalog Note

This July 1908 issue of Munsey's Magazine features an extended profile by Allen D. Albert titled "President Roosevelt and His Official Family," presenting detailed character sketches of Theodore Roosevelt's nine Cabinet members. The article emphasizes their democratic accessibility and administrative capabilities rather than political patronage. Root, Secretary of State, is characterized as the Cabinet's intellectual arbiter—skilled at observation and counsel though famously reserved. Secretary of War William H. Taft is portrayed as unfailingly genial and multitasking. Victor Metcalf, Secretary of the Navy, reorganized naval management to subordinate bureau chiefs to the Secretary. George Cortelyou, Treasury Secretary, rose from Post Office clerk to Cabinet rank over twenty years. The remaining five cabinet members—James Wilson (Agriculture), George Meyer (Postmaster-General), James Garfield (Interior), Charles Bonaparte (Attorney-General), and Oscar Straus (Commerce and Labor)—receive briefer treatment. The issue also includes poetry and period advertising.