Tally Ho In The Pentagon

Tally Ho in the PentagonSir: Mr. Walcott, director of the Geological Survey, has just been in to see me, having seen the President. He has shown me some interesting photographs of Professor Langley's flying machine. The machine has worked. It seems to me worth while for this Government to try whether it will not work on a large enough scale to be of use in the event of war.—Letter to the Secretary of the Navy from Theodore Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, March 25, 1898.Ever since the...