These revisions seemed eminently sensible to no less a personage than the President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt. So delighted was he with the new garb in which these 300 words could be clothed that he immediately ordered that all government documents be printed in simplified spelling. And the result? Such a howl went up from the good citizens of the republic, from the nation’s editors and school-teachers and businessmen, that the issue was finally debated in the halls of Congress.

Norman Lewis, Word Power Made Easy