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business; further application of the initiative, referendum, and recall (but severely limited in application to judicial decisions); accelerated conservation and protection of natural resources, including a vast flood control program for the Mississippi River and its tributaries; development of Alaskan coal fields; woman suffrage; a national health service; federal income and graduated inheritance taxes; a two-battleships-per-year rearmament schedule; national highways; and a parcel post system.

84 “There is no” The New York Times, 8 Aug. 1912.

85 When Judge Lindsey Ogden (Utah) Examiner, 8 Aug. 1912.

86 singing the Doxology Mansfield (Ohio) News, 8 Aug. 1912.

CHAPTER 12: THERE WAS NO OTHER PLACE ON HIS BODY

1 Epigraph Robinson, Collected Poems, 31

2 “In form, two thousand” Proceedings of the 15th RNC, 436.

3 The more measured The New York Times, 7 Aug. 1912.

4 Ray Stannard Baker Baker, notebook M, 17–20 (RSB).

5 And at the lowest Robert Donovan, The Assassins (New York, 1955), 135, 137.

6 “Of course I do not” TR to KR, 13 July 1912 (TRC). See also Gould, Four Hats in the Ring, 155.

7 Wilson was the 2-to-1 The Washington Post, 7 Aug. 1912.

8 he hopped across the court The last words of this sentence are taken from Nicholas Roosevelt’s diary of 10 Aug. 1912. See Nicholas Roosevelt, TR, 98–99.

9 “He is a real” Link, Papers of Woodrow Wilson, 25.26. For TR’s embrace of (and self-identification with) Bergson’s currently popular theory of élan vital, see TR, Works, 14.435 and passim.

10 He had not been impressed William Starr Myers, ed., Woodrow Wilson: Some Princeton Memories (Princeton, N.J., 1946), 42–43.

11 Wilson is a good man TR, Letters, 7.592.

12 “I know it” The New York Times, 13 Aug. 1912.

13 After his desperate Pringle, Taft, 818; The New York Times, 13 Aug. 1912. For WHT’s decision not to campaign actively, see Gould, Four Hats in the Ring, 126ff.

14 Taft knew that Butt, Taft and Roosevelt, 694 and passim; Pringle, Taft, 82. “Ike” Hoover, the veteran White House usher, considered WHT to be, after Calvin Coolidge, the most self-centered of the nine presidents he had known. TR rated third. Hoover, Forty-Two Years, 232.

15 “I have no” WHT quoted in Pringle, Taft, 823.

16 What with Ted Eleanor B. Roosevelt, Day Before Yesterday, 60–61.

17 By the time everybody Ibid., 62.

18 After a few weeks Ibid., 61.

19 One night after dinner Nicholas Roosevelt, TR, 99.

20 “Yes, yes!” Ibid.

21 A more agitated EKR to ERD, n.d., ca. Aug. 1912 (ERDP); Cordery, Alice, 231–32.

22 “I wish to goodness” EKR to ERD, n.d., ca. Aug. 1912 (ERDP).

23 By the end of the month For Debs’s double challenge to TR and WW in the summer of 1912, see Gould, Four Hats in the Ring, chap. 5. TR made two brief campaign trips into New England during the second half of Aug., attracting large, enthusiastic crowds. In Providence, R.I., on the 16th he spoke on tariff and currency reform, and made what appears to have been the first use of a phrase that reentered the American political vocabulary 70 years later: “The Republican proposal is only to give prosperity to [wealthy industrialists] and then to let it trickle down.” The New York Times, 17 Aug. 1912.

24 Wilson chose Dunkirk (N.Y.) Evening Observer and The New York Times, 16 Aug. 1912.

25 340 pounds WHT admitted to this weight at the end of his presidential term. New York Times, 12 Dec. 1913.

26 “As the campaign” WHT on 26 Aug. 1912, quoted in Pringle, Taft, 815.

27 All of them stood The New York Times, 27 Aug. 1912.

28 Woman suffrage was an issue The cover illustration of the pro-Wilson Harper’s Weekly, 17 Aug. 1912, showed TR shouting “Woman Suffrage Forever” through a megaphone, with a billboard proclaiming, “Great Vaudeville Act—The Call of the Wild.”

29 small silver bull mooses Thompson, Presidents I’ve Known, 184. TR had previously (28–31 Aug.) undertaken a short campaign swing through New England. See Gould, Bull Moose, 41–51, for an important address in Vermont on the social-industrial aspects of Progressive policy.

30 He intended to barnstorm TR’s itinerary is detailed