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6 A roll of fat Visible in a photograph in the New York World, 21 May 1915.
7 William M. Ivins The New York Times, 22 Oct. 1905; New York State Bar Association, Proceedings of the Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting (New York, 1916), 505; Julius Henry Cohen, They Builded Better Than They Knew (New York, 1946), chap. 10.
8 “probably the greatest” Barnes v. Roosevelt, 1.142–43.
9 “with the same care” Syracuse Herald, 20 Apr. 1915.
10 In New York State Ibid. See 366.
11 Roosevelt sat mutely New York Evening Post, 19 Apr., New York World, 21 Apr. 1915. Siebold wrote that TR “seemed to be laboring under a degree of depression in striking contrast to the usual volatility of spirit characteristic of him.” The reporter for The New York Times thought TR cheerful enough, but noted his lapses of memory. A careful reading of the transcript supports Siebold’s view, as does a chilling photograph in the same issue of the World.
12 Have you read Barnes v. Roosevelt, 1.193.
13 My regiment was Ibid., 1.199.
14 “Why all this” Ibid., 1.206–7.
15 “Mr. Barnes spoke” Ibid., 1.226.
16 Mr. Bowers and Ibid., 1.236–37.
17 “The people are not” Ibid., 1.242.
18 precise citation of names TR’s pronunciation of the word “Barnes” reminded one reporter of the plop of a pebble dropped in water. The New York Times, 21 Apr. 1915.
19 “a very able man” Barnes v. Roosevelt, 1.243.
20 It is not my desire Ibid., 1.335–38.
21 In other testimony Ibid., 1.272–73, 307–8; The New York Times, 23 Apr. 1915.
22 Bowers asked Ibid., 1.322.
23 The Colonel looked a happier New York World, 22 Apr. 1915.
24 Court artists For an excellent rendering of the trial’s dramatis personae, including a melancholy-looking TR, see the Syracuse Herald, 20 Apr. 1915.
25 Has your occupation Barnes v. Roosevelt, 1.357; New York Evening Post, 22 Apr. 1915.
26 “It is pretty good” Barnes v. Roosevelt, 1.363.
27 the tax-avoidance controversy John M. Corry, Rough Ride to Albany: Teddy Runs for Governor (New York, 2000), 142–65.
28 a little book on the subject William M. Ivins, Machine Politics and Money in Elections in New York City (New York, 1887).
29 Now, does that Barnes v. Roosevelt, 1.394–95.
30 “You did not” Ibid., 1.401–2.
31 Since [1898] Ibid., 1.407. TR was not exaggerating, although the lower figure was probably the more accurate in 1915. Of his lifetime total of letters, approximately 150,000 survive today.
32 “I particularly wished” Ibid., 1.422.
33 “It is because” Ibid., 1.424.
34 as if activated by a jolt The electrical metaphor comes from the court reporter of The New York Times, 22 Apr. 1915. He applied it also to the audience. See also Blakey, “Calling a Boss a Boss” for TR’s effect on the jury.
35 Mr. Ivins, this witness Barnes v. Roosevelt, 1.438.
36 “Mr. Ivins, that is not” Ibid., 1.439–40.
37 “Doctor Jekyll” Ibid., 1.441.
38 Ivins noted that Ibid., 1.442.
39 Yes, sir Ibid.
40 even the most wheedling The New York Times, 27 Apr. 1915.
41 “A little matter” Ibid.
42 Barnes quit attending Ibid.
43 “What relation” The New York Times, 5 May 1915.
44 “I don’t know” Ibid., 7 May 1915.
45 That night, Thursday TR, Letters, 8.921–22.
46 a strange flurry A. A. and Mary Hoehling, The Last Voyage of the Lusitania (New York, 1956), 39–40. One of the telegram recipients was Alfred G. Vanderbilt.
47 An advisory signed Ibid. See ibid., 96, for a facsimile reproduction of the German Embassy warning.
48 “It makes my blood” TR, Letters, 8.922.
49 “I came across this” The New York Times, 8 May 1915. Ivins had probably seen a recent article by TR (Ladies’ Home Journal, Apr. 1915) complaining about having to wade through “a German edition of Aristophanes, with erudite explanations of the jokes.” TR, Works, 4.91.
50 Reading it, his face Bishop, TR, 2.375.
51 Many of the first Syracuse Herald, 7 May 1915. Vanderbilt drowned, but Miss Pope survived after being nearly given up for dead. Later in life, as Theodate Pope Riddle, she designed the Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace