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75 a spokesman for The New York Times, 5 June 1910.
76 “I have had” WHT to TR, 26 May 1910 (WHTP). TR replied evasively to WHT, in a letter unlikely to reach America before he did. “As to your more than kind invitation that I should visit the White House, I shall ask you about this to let me defer my answer until I reach Oyster Bay, and to find out what work is in store for me.” TR, Letters, 7.88–89.
77 passengers saw little of him The phrase, and all other details in this paragraph, come from The New York Times, 19 June 1910.
78 But she knew him well enough In Mar. 1898, TR had been ready to go to war in Cuba, even as EKR lay at the point of death with an abdominal abscess. “I shall chafe my heart out if I am kept [sic] here instead of being at the front,” he wrote. Sylvia Morris, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, 170–71.
79 “I love Father” ERD to Edith Gregori, 8 Aug. 1910 (ERDP).
80 He agreed to speak William Bayard Hale, “The Colonel and John Bull,” World’s Work, Aug. 1910.
81 Later in the day Ibid.
CHAPTER 4: A NATIVE OYSTER
1 Epigraph Robinson, Collected Poems, 359.
2 Joseph Youngwitz Youngwitz identified himself and described his purchase to a reporter during the course of the day. (The New York Times, 18 June 1910.) His name appears in the U.S. Census for 1910.
3 Straw boaters undulated Some of the boaters, sold by street vendors, were banded with the word “DEE-LIGHTED.” New York World, 19 June 1910; Eleanor Butler Roosevelt, Day Before Yesterday: The Reminiscences of Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. (Garden City, N.Y., 1959), 49.
4 At 7:30 A.M. The following description of TR’s return to New York is based on accounts in The New York Times, New York World, and New York Evening Post, 18, 19 June 1910; “TR’s Return to New York,” newsreel in Theodore Roosevelt on Film, Library of Congress; and photographs in Lorant, Life and Times of TR, 538–39. The World estimated the total crowd at one and a half million. By all accounts, it was the greatest individual welcome ever accorded by New York City, until the parade for Charles Lindbergh in 1927.
5 “He was smiling” EKR quoted in Looker, Colonel Roosevelt, 143.
6 “Will you kindly” Butt, Taft and Roosevelt, 396.
7 “Think—for the first” Ibid., 399.
8 Roosevelt embraced his sisters Anna “Bamie” Roosevelt Cowles (1855–1931); Corinne Roosevelt Robinson (1861–1933).
9 Ted presented Sylvia Morris, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, 339–40; Eleanor B. Roosevelt, Day Before Yesterday, 13–14.
10 Franklin Delano Roosevelt “Franklin ought to go into politics,” TR wrote, after FDR’s campaign as a Democrat for the New York State Senate was announced. “… He is a fine fellow.” (To Anna Roosevelt Cowles, 10 Aug. 1910 [ARC].) For the intertwined history of the Oyster Bay (Republican) and Hyde Park (Democratic) branches of the Roosevelt family, see Stephen Hess, America’s Political Dynasties (New York, 1966, 1996), 167ff.
11 “my original discoverer!” The New York Times, 19 June 1910. See Morris, The Rise of TR, 131–33.
12 latest issue of The Outlook TR, “Our Colonial Policy,” The Outlook, June 1910.
13 He had to turn New York World, 19 June 1910.
14 “I am ready” The New York Times, 19 June 1910.
15 [We] figured it Butt, Taft and Roosevelt, 396.
16 Just above Franklin The New York Times, 19 June 1910.
17 “about five years ago” Ibid.
18 That evening The wording of this paragraph closely follows that of TR’s own account in TR, Works, 22.369.
19 He and his first wife For TR’s marriage (1880–1884) to Alice Hathaway Lee, see Putnam, TR; Morris, The Rise of TR; and Michael Teague, “Theodore Roosevelt and Alice Hathaway Lee: A New Perspective,” Harvard Library Bulletin, 32.3 (Summer 1985).
20 Being a young widower For a short account of TR’s tenure as squire of Sagamore Hill, 1880–1919, see Natalie Naylor, “Understanding the Place: Theodore Roosevelt’s Hometown of Oyster Bay and His Sagamore Hill Home,” Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal, 30.1–2 (Winter–Spring 2009). The most extended study is Hermann Hagedorn, The Roosevelt Family of Sagamore Hill (New York, 1954).
21 “One thing