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9 “The break seems” Heckscher, Woodrow Wilson, 404–5.
10 Coincidentally David Jones, In Parenthesis (London, 1982), ix, cited in Ecksteins, Rites of Spring, 211; Gilbert, A History of the Twentieth Century, 397–98, 408. The death toll on 1 July 1916 was the highest of World War I. Quite apart from ground fire, the heavy-artillery rate was 60 shells a second.
11 Roosevelt’s drive to raise The New York Times, 19, 20 June 1916. Bullock informed TR that South Dakota was good for a whole regiment. Kellar, Seth Bullock, 177.
12 His letter to Baker TR, Letters, 8.1087–88.
13 “in the event of” Ibid., 8.1091.
14 memoirs of Baron Grivel Georges Lacour-Gayet, Mémoires du vice-amiral Baron Grivel (Paris, 1914).
15 “Lafayettes of the Air” Collier’s Weekly, 29 July 1916.
16 On 4 August The New York Times, 5 Aug., The Washington Post, 6 Aug. 1916; Whitney Museum of American Art, Flora Whitney Miller: Her Life, Her World (New York, 1987), 17. Hereafter Flora.
17 He admitted TR, Letters, 8.1094; QR to ABR, 28 Dec. 1917 (ABRP). At Plattsburg, QR had been found unfit for rifle service because of defective vision, plus a tendency, when drilling, to toss rather than shoulder arms. John T. McGovern, Diogenes Discovers Us (Freeport, N.Y., 1933, 1967), 233.
18 His ironic sense ABR found KR annoyingly sassy at Harvard. “Perhaps the main trouble is that he is generally funny and knows it, hence, when he cannot think of anything funny to say, he becomes fresh.” ABR to TR, 14 Nov. 1915 (KRP).
19 fast-driving boys Three weeks after Flora’s ball, QR was ticketed for speeding by a policeman in Hicksville, Long Island. The New York Times, 25 Aug. 1916.
20 Flora, who was Flora, passim. See also Flora Miller Biddle, The Whitney Women and the Museum They Made (New York, 1999).
21 Archie had briefly paid court QR to Flora Whitney, ca. 25 Oct. 1915 (FWM).
22 “You get a” QR to KR, 2 Feb. 1916 (KRP).
23 “We are all” Collier’s Weekly, 29 July 1916.
24 Secretary Baker was pleased Frederick Palmer, Newton D. Baker: America at War (New York, 1931), 1.283–84.
25 He told Kermit QR to KR, 2 Feb. 1916 (KRP). A period of hard study was especially desirable for QR, who for reasons best known to himself had devoted his entire Mathematics “A” examination sheet to a poem. (McGovern, Diogenes Discovers Us, 232.) It is reproduced in Kermit Roosevelt, Quentin Roosevelt, 28ff.
26 “Roosevelt would be” TR, Letters, 8.1110; The New York Times, 1 Sept. 1916; Barrus, John Burroughs, 2.238.
27 Quentin Roosevelt returned QR to Flora Whitney, 31 July, 24 Sept. 1917 (FWM).
28 Roosevelt fretted TR, Letters, 8.1099, 1199, 1101.
29 “from the bench” Congressional Quarterly, The CQ Guide to American Government (Washington, D.C. 1969), 93. Ironically, WW’s reputation as a “cold” politician was moderated by Hughes’s own icy public persona. When the latter lost his voice in transit across Illinois, Will H. Hays, a member of the RNC, remarked, “Thank God. We have a chance to carry Indiana.” (Thomas Robins interview, n.d. [TRB].) For an account of Hughes’s boxed-in campaign, See S. D. Lovell, The Presidential Election of 1916 (Carbondale, Ill., 1980).
30 For the sake of Leary, Talks with T.R., 198; The New York Times, 4 Oct. 1917; Irwin, A History of the Union League Club, 184–85.
31 Four days later The New York Times, 8 Oct. 1916.
32 It cruised into Syracuse Herald, 8 Oct. 1916; The New York Times, 8 Oct. 1916.
33 He added, smiling Ibid.; Logansport (Ind.) Tribune (AP dispatch), 8 Oct. 1916.
34 “The first British ship” The New York Times, 8 Oct. 1916.
35 Throughout the day Newport Mercury, 14 Oct. 1916; The New York Times and Trenton (N.J.) Evening Times, 9 Oct. 1916.
36 President Wilson remained Trenton (N.J.) Evening Times, 9 Oct. 1916.
37 “Now the war” The New York Times, 11 Oct. 1916.
38 “Old trumps” Stoddard, As I Knew Them, 319. TR had been speaking earlier this night at the Academy of Music in Brooklyn, not, as Stoddard remembers, at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia.
Biographical Note: Around this time, TR was asked by Henry