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65 Secretary Lansing replied Sullivan, Our Times, 5.132.
66 “I have been” TR to Fanny Parsons, 30 May 1916 (PAR). For a letter from TR to Ford, considerably gentler than his speech, explaining why he found pacifism “the enemy of morality,” see TR, Letters, 8.1022.
67 “It matters” Ray Stannard Baker, American Chronicle (New York, 1945), 287.
68 “So sincerely” Heckscher, Woodrow Wilson, 392.
69 was willing to trade As a lollipop, TR let it be known that if elected in November, he would reappoint Elihu Root as his secretary of state. Albert Shaw, “Reminiscences of Theodore Roosevelt,” ms. (ASP).
70 “All were united” Cecil to Florence Spring Rice, 8 June 1916 (CSR). For an eyewitness account of the Progressive proceedings, see Julian Street, “The Convention and the Colonel,” Collier’s Weekly, 57.5 (1 July 1916). TR characteristically cited this article as “The Colonel and the Convention.” TR, Letters, 8.1085.
71 The European situation Ecksteins, Rites of Spring, 144; Gilbert, A History of the Twentieth Century, 397.
72 Roosevelt had once taunted See 70.
73 “They believed” Cecil to Florence Spring Rice, 8 June 1916 (CSR).
74 “We all look” Adams, Letters, 5.323.
75 By nine o’clock Mowry, TR, 351–52. TR’s preference was for Wood, as a preparedness man as committed as himself. He had already privately ascertained that Wood was willing to run. (Nicholas Roosevelt, TR, 108.) Lodge he regarded merely as “a stopgap” who could not be nominated, but who would block the boom for Hughes, and then transfer his support back to TR. Thomas Robins interview, n.d. (TRB).
76 another telegram declining TR, Letters, 8.1062–63.
77 “Around me” Villard, Fighting Years, 316. See TR, Letters, 8.1074 for the devastated reactions of two Progressives, Thomas Robins and William Allen White.
78 “Theodore” Robinson, My Brother TR, 303.
79 With other family TR to Anna Roosevelt Cowles, 16 June 1916 (ARC); Leary, Talks with T.R., 31; Micah 6:8.
80 His secretary interrupted Leary, notebook 3, 18 June 1916 (JJL). A slightly different version of this conversation appears in Leary, Talks with T.R., 65–69.
81 “If they were mine” Leary, notebook 3, 18 June 1916 (JJL).
82 “Now, Theodore” Hermann Hagedorn (eyewitness) in Roosevelt House Bulletin, 6.10 (Fall 1948).
CHAPTER 24: SHADOWS OF LOFTY WORDS
1 Epigraph Robinson, Collected Poems, 17.
2 As a boy Kermit Roosevelt, Happy Hunting Grounds, 15–16.
3 In recent years Morris, Theodore Rex, 424; TR, Letters, 8.1064–65; Wood, Roosevelt As We Knew Him, 388ff.; TR, Letters, 8.887. See Edgar Lee Masters, “At Sagamore Hill” in Starved Rock (New York, 1919), 95ff., for an unforgettable account in verse of being received by TR.
4 By good rights Robinson, My Brother TR, 324; Robert Frost, North of Boston (New York, 1915), 72. Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, herself a published poet (The Call of Brotherhood and Other Poems [New York, 1913]) and officer of the Poetry Society, maintained a salon at her Madison Avenue home for bards visiting New York. TR’s encounter with Frost appears to have taken place in late 1916. For more on TR’s poetic tastes, see TR, Letters, 8.1228, and chap. 2, “The World of Thought,” in Wagenknecht, The Seven Worlds of TR.
5 a severe attack of amnesia Leary, Talks with T.R., 62.
6 On 26 June The New York Times, 27, 29 June 1916; TR, Letters, 8.1082–23; Leary, Talks with T.R., 52. It was a matter of some concern to the designers of Republican campaign buttons in 1916 that both Hughes and Fairbanks wore old-fashioned beards, as opposed to the smooth, contemporary-looking jawlines of Wilson and his running mate, Thomas R. Marshall. As a cabbie in Chicago remarked at the time of the GOP convention, “Americans had a right to see a man’s chin before being asked to vote for him.” Julian Street, “The Convention and the Colonel,” Collier’s Weekly, 57.5 (1 July 1916).
7 “I don’t believe” Kenneth C. Kellar, Seth Bullock: Frontier Marshal (Aberdeen, S.D., 1872), 177.
8 Kermit could try KR did so on 5 July, serving in the Sixth Business