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9 “I had no idea” TR, Letters, 8.1221–22.
10 In a snub The New York Times, 8 Aug. 1917; TR to Julian Street, ca. 8 Aug. 1917 (JS). Taft had his own joke during this period of delay-plagued mobilization. “When I see the way things are going in Washington, it makes my blood fairly boil,” he told Albert Beveridge. “But when I think how much madder they must make T.R., I feel a whole lot better.” Leary, Talks with T.R., 200.
11 symptoms of extreme stress Carleton B. Case, Good Stories About Roosevelt (Chicago, 1920), 115; TR, Letters, 8.1207; EKR to KR, 19 Aug. 1917 (KRP).
12 “an absolutely selfish” TR, Letters, 8.1224. For an example of TR’s paranoia about WW at this time, see his reprimand to William Allen White for a making a complimentary reference to the President in ibid., 8.1197–99.
13 Seven months after TR to KR, 10 Dec. 1917 (TRC); TR, Letters, 8.1225.
14 He was diverted KR to TR, 12 Aug. 1917 (KRP); TR, Letters, 8.1226–27.
15 Another thing Eleanor B. Roosevelt, Day Before Yesterday, 77–78; TR, Letters, 8.1207.
16 “One of the” TR, Letters, 8.1229.
17 Dearest Quentin Original in TRC.
18 “I confess” QR to Flora Whitney, 19 Aug. 1917 (FWM).
19 “appalling reality” Ibid.
20 “The thing that” Ibid.
21 called on to interpret QR to Flora Whitney, 20 Aug. 1917 (FWM).
22 Flora registered QR to EBR, 20 Jan. 1918 (TRJP). Flora’s later feelings about Edith Normant are suggested by a large cross drawn over the girl’s image in a photograph QR sent her. Scrapbook, 17 Feb. 1918 (FWM).
23 “Ah, dearest” QR to Flora Whitney, 31 Aug. 1917 (FWM).
24 Among the lucrative Sylvia Morris, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, 415; H. J. Whigham interviewed by Hermann Hagedorn, 12 May 1949 (TRB).
25 It was therapeutic EKR to KR, 19 Aug. 1917 (KRP); TR, Letters, 8.1347.
26 No less a bandmaster EKR to KR, 22 Sept. 1917 (KRP); Oakland Tribune, 23 Sept. 1917; Kenneth S. Lynn, Hemingway (New York, 1987), 68. TR’s contributions to the paper were posthumously collected and published as Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star: War-time Editorials (Boston, 1921).
27 The Roosevelts moved The New York Times, 27 Sept. 1917; TR, Letters, 8.1243.
28 Edith became concerned EKR to Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, 26 Sept. 1917 (TRC); Sylvia Morris, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, 553; unidentified news photographs, Sept. 1917, Pratt Collection scrapbook (TRB).
29 Other women EKR to Ruth Lee, 26 Sept. 1917 (AL); Mary Roberts Rinehart, My Story (New York, 1931), 241; Ida Tarbell in Baker, notebook XIV.74–75 (RSB); EKR to ERD, mid-Oct. 1917 (ERDP).
30 “The household enthralls” TR, Letters, 8.1246.
31 “What’s the matter” Jack Cooper interviewed by J. F. French, ca. 1922 (TRB).
32 Cooper said that Ibid.
33 The Reducycle, a machine Ibid.
34 “Cooper’s not” EKR diary, 22 Oct. 1917 (TRC). TR had, nevertheless, reduced his waist measurement by “three or four inches,” according to EKR’s count, “and he is just hard muscle.” EKR to KR, 27 Oct. 1917 (KRP).
35 Flora received QR to Flora Whitney, 9, 13 Sept. 1917 (FWM).
36 “I don’t see” QR to Flora Whitney, 15, 25 Sept. 5 Dec., Oct. 1917 (FWM).
37 She felt the same Flora Whitney to QR, 1 Nov. 1917 (EDRP).
38 He confessed to her QR to Flora Whitney, 15 Nov., 11 Oct. 1917 (FWM).
39 Belle had allowed The New York Times, 27 Sept. 1917.
40 For Theodore Roosevelt Boston Evening Transcript photograph, ca. 4 Oct. 1917 (KRP); TR, Letters, 8.1245.
41 At the beginning of November Gilbert, A History of the Twentieth Century, 474–77.
42 The Willy-Nicky Correspondence New York, 1918.
43 “the folly of” Ibid., iii.
44 The Foes of Our Own Household New York, 1917. Reprinted in TR, Works, 21.
45 He argued that The Nation, 15 Nov. 1917.
46 The critic was Ibid.
47 “I have never” To TR, 8 Oct. 1917, Georges Clemenceau, Correspondance, 1858–1928 (Paris, 2008), 523.
48 Flora no longer In an effort to cheer Flora (and himself) up, TR took her with him on a short speaking trip to Toronto at the end of November. His rapturous reception in that city, where he spoke in favor of