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84 The case of the Jew TR, Works, 14.264.
85 He listed the main “Practically all the theories of world-development and so forth which Mr. Roosevelt was expounding had been based on the works of the very men he was addressing.” An eyewitness, quoted in The New Age, 26 May 1910.
86 genus Americanus egotisticus This phrase was applied to TR by the Kaiser’s good friend Poultney Bigelow in Seventy Summers (London, 1925), 273–74.
87 But it was a warm afternoon Chicago Tribune, 13 May 1910.
88 newspapers gave it scant attention Admiral Köster stated on 22 May 1910 that representatives of the German Navy League had listened “with the greatest interest” to TR’s speech. A few words in particular (“Woe to the nation … whose citizens have lost their courage for battle and their martial spirit”) had “deeply implanted themselves in German hearts.” Bourne, British Documents, pt. 1, ser. F, 21.78.
89 substantive interviews O’Laughlin, From the Jungle Through Europe, 151–52.
90 a set of photographs For facsimiles, see Stefan Lorant, The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt (Garden City, N.Y., 1959), 526–27. The original photographs are still on display at Sagamore Hill National Historic Site.
91 “Oh, no” TR, Letters, 7.83; John J. Leary, Talks with T.R. (Boston 1920), 41.
CHAPTER 3: HONORABILEM THEODORUM
1 Epigraph Robinson, Collected Poems, 3.
2 Roosevelt emerged The New York Times, 17 May 1910.
3 Reid had won TR, Letters, 7.401–2; Viscount Lee of Fareham, A Good Innings (privately printed, London, 1939), 1.415–16. The relationship of TR and Arthur Lee is fully detailed in this two-volume work. For an abridged version, see “A Good Innings”: The Private Papers of Viscount Lee of Fareham, P.C., G.C.B., G.C.S.I., G.B.E., Alan Clark, ed. (London, 1974). See also the section on Lee in Burton, “Theodore Roosevelt and His English Correspondents.” For TR and Reid, see David R. Contosa and Jessica R. Hawthorne, “Rise to World Power: Selected Letters of Whitelaw Reid, 1895–1912,” Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 76.2 (1986).
4 His Majesty turned TR, Letters, 7.402; The New York Times and New York Tribune, 17 May 1910.
5 Edward VII’s personal throat doctor The New York Times, 17 May 1910. One of Edward’s last acts had been to summon Ambassador Reid to Buckingham Palace, and, between spasms of coughing, plan the details of Roosevelt’s visit. Royal Cortissoz, The Life of Whitelaw Reid (New York, 1921), 2.411–12.
6 he was hard-pressed TR also found time to view, with EKR, Edward VII’s coffin lying in state at Buckingham Palace. The next day it was transferred to Westminster Hall.
7 “Confound these kings” Abbott, Impressions of TR, 294. Abbott left the king’s name blank, but he was identified in the press as Haakon of Norway.
8 She floated into KR diary, 16 May 1910 (KRP); Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Crowded Hours (New York, 1933), 177. ARL’s butterfly brilliance is communicated in Michael Teague, Mrs. L: Conversations with Alice Roosevelt Longworth (London, 1981). The standard biography is Stacy Cordery, Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, From White House Princess to Washington Power Broker (New York, 2007).
9 “a voodoo” Teague, Mrs. L., 140.
10 “one of the finest fellows” Henry White to Mrs. White, 18 May 1910 (HW); TR, Letters, 7.402.
11 Emerging one morning The New York Times, 20 May 1910; Henry White to EKR, 27 Nov. 1922 (correcting the account in Robinson, My Brother TR, 261–62). TRC.
12 inside information Wilhelm II to Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, misdated “5 May 1910,” in Edgar T. Dugdale, ed., German Diplomatic Documents 1871–1914 (London, 1930), 3.414.
13 It did not seem to cross his mind Nor, apparently, did the Kaiser notice that Roosevelt, criticizing two out-of-power Tories, had said nothing about his interview with Grey, the key figure in British foreign relations.