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62 “Our governor” The New York Times, 30 June 1910.
63 After coffee William N. Chadbourne interview, Apr.–May 1955 (TRB). A modern historian points out that TR had spent so many years in Washington that he had few close contacts in the state GOP. John Allen Gable, “The Bull Moose Years: Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Party, 1912–1916” (Ph.D. diss., Kenyon College, 1965), 16.
64 “What shall I do?” Chadbourne interview, Apr.–May 1955 (TRB).
65 “I believe” TR, Letters, 7.97. The wording of TR’s telegram allowed for the fact that he did not personally attach much value to the direct primary. He told Lawrence Lowell, the president of Harvard, that same day that the machine would soon manage to manipulate it. (Lowell to Owen Wister, 8 Aug. 1930 [OW].) Wister writes of TR’s commitment to help Hughes: “In all his life, I see no decision more crucial than this one.” Trifling in itself, it largely determined the future course of his life. Wister, Roosevelt, 280–82.
66 He was bursting Margaret Terry Chanler, Roman Spring (Boston, 1934), 199–201.
67 “I know this man” Butt, Taft and Roosevelt, 418.
68 “Jimmy, I may” Ibid., 261.
69 He came out of the house The following account of TR’s reunion with WHT is taken from the only primary record available, in Butt, Taft and Roosevelt, 393–431.
70 Before leaving New York Evening Post, 1 July 1910; Lodge, Selections, 2.351; Paul T. Heffron, “William Moody: Profile of a Public Man,” Yearbook of the Supreme Court Historical Society, 1980. TR’s other Supreme Court appointments were Oliver Wendell Holmes and William Rufus Day.
71 He had looked to Moody As early as 26 Sept. 1907, Moody, just appointed to the Supreme Court, had written sarcastically to TR about “those who regard [the Constitution] as a benign gift from the Fathers, designed to protect those of sufficient wealth from the consequences of their misdoing.” He went on: “Above all I dread a reactionary in your place. It is not so much for what he would do within the four years, but for what he could perpetuate … by the power of appointment, which for the next six years is of vital importance to our future development” (TRP).
CHAPTER 5: THE NEW NATIONALISM
1 Epigraph Robinson, Collected Poems, 26.
2 Roosevelt returned home The New York Times headline on 1 July 1910 was DEFY ROOSEVELT IN BOTH HOUSES. TR was denounced in the assembly for interfering in the legislative process.
3 “And the ‘Hundred’ ” Literary Digest, 9 July 1910; New York Sun, 1 July 1910.
4 chairman of the convention In the confusing terminology of 1910, this office (both at the state and national level) was qualified by the adjective temporary before and through most of the convention. It changed to permanent only when the party elected its chairman for the next two or four years. The distinction may now be conveniently ignored.
5 “Archie, I am” Butt, Taft and Roosevelt, 434.
6 “I could cry” Lucius Burrie Swift to Mrs. Swift, 8 July 1910 (LBS).
7 “Are you aware” Victor Murdock interviewed by Hermann Hagedorn, 10 Nov. 1940 (TRB).
8 Roosevelt was struggling The fairest analysis of TR’s complex political situation in the summer of 1910 remains that of Sullivan, Our Times, 4.443–45.
9 “The greatest service” TR, Letters, 7.102.
10 That meant Ibid., 7.102–3.
11 “Of course you must” Ibid., 7.101, 7.95.
12 “He is evidently” Ibid., 7.96. For some sample vacillations by WHT, see Mowry, TR, 56.
13 A poll conducted World’s Work, July 1910. Even fewer respondents expressed any concerns about TR breaking the two-term tradition of U.S. presidents.
14 He was in receipt Lodge, Selections, 2.386–87.
15 “My proper task” TR to Fremont Older, 18 Aug. 1910 (TRP).
16 the Outlook offices At 287 Fourth Avenue, Manhattan.
17 a Haynes-Apperson EKR to KR, 7 Aug. 1910 (KRP); W. C. Madden, Haynes-Apperson and America’s First Practical Automobile: A History (Jefferson, N.C., 2003), 92.
18 On a visit TR, Letters, 7.115–16. Griscom went to Sagamore Hill to confide that while he was still a Taft man, he thought TR had behaved more honorably as leader of the Republican