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All that exists of the movie today is a 400-foot fragment, eerily showing choked and blinded New Yorkers trying to escape from a lower Manhattan dense with the smoke and rubble of firebombed buildings. For a full account of the production and phenomenal success of Battle Cry, and the ideological quarrel it caused between TR and Hugo Münsterberg, see chap. 2 of David A. Gerstner, Manly Arts: Masculinity and Nation in Early American Cinema (Durham, N.C., 2006). See also TR, Letters, 8.989–91.
48 It was an excellent For the sample sufferings of one trainee, see Arthur Lubow, The Reporter Who Would Be King: A Biography of Richard Harding Davis (New York, 1992), 315–16.
49 Davis, the only man present Lubow, The Reporter Who Would Be King, 309–12, 315–16.
50 “I like him” Clifford, Citizen Soldiers, 85.
51 It was tempting TR had shown an advance copy of his remarks to Wood and allowed the general to edit them. Charles McGrath clumsily gave the unedited version to the press. The New York Times, commenting on this release, allowed that TR “could use more moderation in his expression,” but nevertheless praised him for performing “a service to his country” in drawing attention to the need for national preparedness. TR, Letters, 8.965; The New York Times, 26 Aug. 1915.
52 “Let him get out” The New York Times, 26 Aug. 1915.
53 “As the Colonel” Street, The Most Interesting American, 5.
54 a reprimand to General Wood Garrison’s furious telegram, which left Wood apologetic but secretly unrepentant, is quoted in Clifford, Citizen Soldiers, 86–87. Dudley F. Malone, a WW appointee who attended Plattsburg as an observer for the administration, denounced TR’s speech as “both novel and treasonable.” The New York Times, 27 Aug. 1915.
55 the Colonel dictated “I am, of course, solely responsible for the whole speech,” TR declared, avoiding comment on his unscripted remarks at Plattsburg station. “General Wood had no more idea than Secretary Garrison what I was going to say.” The New York Times, 27 Aug. 1915.
56 “It was not” Street, The Most Interesting American, 9–10.
57 The young man was convinced Street in TR, Works, 9.203.
58 “The Master of the house” Julian Street, “Mrs. Roosevelt Edits a Statement of Her Husband’s,” ts. (JS).
59 He had to explain TR’s deposition, dated 24 Sept. 1915, is printed as an appendix in TR, Works, 4.604–6.
60 Shaken by the Wood, Roosevelt As We Knew Him, 395.
61 Washburn observed Ibid.; Adams, Letters, 6.702; Spring Rice to TR, 10 Oct. 1915 (TRP).
62 a “shifty, adroit” TR to Edith Wharton, 1 Oct. 1915 (EW).
63 “Terse, clear” Bourne, British Documents, pt. 1, ser. C, 15.149.
64 “All these letters” Street, The Most Interesting American, 15.
65 the President’s most recent The New York Times, 22 July 1915.
66 On 5 October Bailey, A Diplomatic History, 580–81.
67 Representatives of all Ibid., 581; New York World, 6 Oct. 1915.
68 On the day after Cooper, Woodrow Wilson, 302–3. WW married Mrs. Galt on 18 Dec. 1915.
69 “I am giving” TR to QR, 18 Oct. 1915 (TRC).
70 It was obvious TR quoted in Street, The Most Interesting American, 31–32; TR to KR, 15 Oct. 1915 (TRC).
Chronological Note: An important chapter in TR’s life came to an end on 14 Nov. 1915, when Booker T. Washington died. TR spoke at the memorial service in Tuskegee, Ala., on 12 Dec., and lobbied successfully for the appointment of Robert R. Moton to succeed Washington as principal of the Tuskegee Institute. In private correspondence he showed no resentment against Washington for supporting WW in 1912, calling the black educator “a genius such as does not arise in a generation.” Wood, Roosevelt As We Knew Him, 345–46; TR, Letters, 8.996–97.
71 Roosevelt had been pleased TR, Letters, 8.1455, 829; TR to KR, 8 Apr. 1915 (TRC).
72 As a token TR to QR, 18 Oct. 1915 (TRC).
73 The extermination of TR, Works, 4.226–27.
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