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56 With some awkwardness Lodge, Selections, 2.426–34. Lodge’s Early Memories, published in the fall of 1913, stopped short of his political career and said nothing about his relationship with TR.
57 A much frostier The New York Times, 5 Jan. 1913.
58 “No, dear, no” Eleanor B. Roosevelt, Day Before Yesterday, 65.
59 His wisecrack The New York Times, 5 Jan. 1913.
60 In a bizarre speech Logansport (Ind.) Journal-Tribune, 5 Jan. 1913.
61 For the rest The first chapter of TR’s autobiography, “Boyhood and Youth,” appeared in The Outlook on 22 Feb. 1913. Eleven further chapters followed fortnightly. The McClure Newspaper Syndicate began reprinting them on 13 April.
62 “It is very difficult” TR, Letters, 7.689.
63 He was shy TR, An Autobiography, 258, 263–64. TR did permit himself one reference to “my son Kermit” in describing a lion hunt in Africa, presumably because KR had been mentioned often in African Game Trails. Elsewhere in his manuscript, he deleted some accidental references to Ted before sending it to the printer. See chap. 9, 24 (MLM).
64 Adult traumas Morris, The Rise of TR, passim.
65 “an optimist” Wister, Roosevelt, 331–32.
66 That land of the West TR, An Autobiography, 346. His quotation “gone with lost Atlantis” is from Rudyard Kipling’s poem “Philadelphia” in Rewards and Fairies (1910).
67 On Tuesday The New York Times, 5 Mar. 1913.
68 the Colonel went that morning Ibid. To New Yorkers in 1913, the term Futurism was not necessarily associated with the movement of that name in Italy.
69 a bedlam of aesthetic debate See Milton W. Brown, The Story of the Armory Show (New York, 1988), chap. 9.
70 some Valhallan landscapes Pinckney Marcius-Simons (1867–1909) is often misnamed in TR studies as “Marcus Symonds” or “Bruseius Simons.” A skilled, New York–born genre painter in the 1880s, he later developed a vaguer, more mystical style, apparently influenced by Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelungen and Parsifal. He died in Bayreuth. For TR’s emotional reaction to three Simons works (which still hang in Sagamore Hill), see TR, Letters, 4.757–78. “I wish ‘the light that never was on land or sea’ in the pictures I am to live with—and this light your paintings have.” See also TR, An Autobiography, 586.
71 As for sculpture Longworth, Crowded Hours, 65.
72 “Art,” Roosevelt admitted TR quoted in Butt, Letters, 355–56.
73 His executive dining room Morris, Theodore Rex, passim; Albert Bigelow Paine, Thomas Nast: His Period and His Pictures (New York, 1904), 556ff.; Garland in Roosevelt House Bulletin, 2.2 (Fall 1923).
Historiographical Note: A comprehensive study of TR’s patronage of artists and the arts as President remains to be written. His activism included the classical restoration and renaming of the White House; dynamic backing for the McMillan Commission’s 1902 plan to de-clutter and beautify Washington, along the lines of Pierre L’Enfant’s original design; relocating the proposed Lincoln Memorial on Capitol Hill to its present site; ordering the removal of the former Pennsylvania Railroad Station on the Mall at Sixth Street, N.W.; campaigning for a National Art Gallery; and pressuring his fellow regents on the Smithsonian Institution board to acquire major collections of Oriental, British, and contemporary American art. Shortly before leaving the White House he appointed and empowered a Fine Arts Council, under the advisement of the American Institute of Architects. But the gesture was quixotic, since neither Congress nor President Taft showed any interest in continuing the cultural policies of the Roosevelt administration. See TR, Letters, 4.817; Glenn Brown, “Roosevelt and the Fine Arts,” American Architect, 116 (1919); “Roosevelt and Our Coin Designs: The Letters Between Theodore Roosevelt and Augustus Saint Gaudens,” The Century Magazine, Apr. 1920; reminiscences of Christopher LaFarge and Glenn Brown in Wood, Roosevelt As We Knew Him, 169–72; Willard B. Gatewood, Jr., “Theodore Roosevelt, Champion of Governmental Aesthetics,” Georgia Review, 67.21 (Summer 1967); Richard