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40 “I wish you” TR to QR, 5 Mar. 1918 (TRC).
41 On 13 March EKR to KR, 17 Mar. 1918 (KRP); TR, Letters, 8.1300–301. ABR, fighting in the Twenty-sixth Infantry’s first line engagement of the war, had been wounded in the Toul sector. ABR, “Lest We Forget.”
42 just given birth On 18 Feb. 1918. In the author’s opinion, “Archie Junior” was, of all TR’s direct descendants, the one who inherited the most of the Colonel’s personal and intellectual characteristics. See Archibald Roosevelt, Jr., For Lust of Knowing: Memoirs of an Intelligence Officer (Boston, 1988).
43 “At lunch Mother” TR, Letters, 8.1301; ERD to Richard Derby, 12 Mar. 1918 (ERDP). TR wrote Clemenceau to say that ABR had won a French medal, and added, “I am prouder of his having received it than of my having been President!” TR, Letters, 8.1303.
44 A few days TR, Letters, 8.1301; Richard Derby to TR, 13 Mar. 1918 (ERDP).
45 now wished to fight TR, Letters, 8.1310.
46 “Father had 2” ERD to Richard Derby n.d., ca. Mar. 1918 (ERDP). The Sagamore Hill farm raised cows, hogs, and chickens, and was therefore self-supporting in milk and eggs. Crops included standard vegetables and fruits, plus hay, corn, and apples for sale. TR, Letters, 8.1352.
47 It was intended TR, Letters, 8.1299.
48 poisonous phosgene fumes Strachan, The First World War, 295.
49 Under the circumstances The New York Times, 28 Mar. 1918.
50 He returned home On his way back, TR stopped in Boston to admire Archie, Jr. TR, Letters, 8.1494.
Biographical Note: TR flattered himself that his mammoth Portland speech, which took three hours to deliver, “amounted to the acceptance, by the Republicans of Maine, of the Progressive platform of 1912 developed and brought up to date.” (TR, Letters, 8.1307.) But its title (“Speed Up the War and Take Thought for After the War”) made clear what his current priorities were. He berated the administration for its unpreparedness and consequent slow pace of mobilization, recommended the creation of a five-million-man army (on the assumption the war would last another three years), demanded that Congress revoke the charter of the German-American Alliance, and called for a declaration of war against Turkey. Although he did, in fact, lay out a domestic policy plan far more detailed and progressive than that of the Democrats in 1918, his bellicose rhetoric naturally got most coverage in the national press. The speech was printed and widely circulated. See The New York Times, 29 Mar. 1918.
51 A terrified Jules Jusserand Heckscher, Woodrow Wilson, 474.
52 “Wilson always follows” ERD to Richard Derby, quoting an attendee at the dinner, 27 Mar. 1918 (ERDP); Heckscher, Woodrow Wilson, 475. McAdoo’s remark was particularly striking because he happened to be WW’s son-in-law.
53 a place for Kermit TR, Letters, 8.1316.
54 He calculated QR to Flora Whitney, 24 Mar. 1918 (FWM).
55 As for your getting killed (handwritten) TR to QR, 17 Mar. 1918 (TRC).
56 Quentin foresaw QR to Flora Whitney, 27 Mar. 1918 (FWM).
57 When Quentin next heard TR, Letters, 8.1311.
58 What information reached Richard Derby to TR, 13 Mar. 1918 (ERDP); medical report, 12 Mar. 1918 (ERDP); Eleanor B. Roosevelt, Day Before Yesterday, 95; QR to Flora Whitney, 30 Apr. 1918 (FWM).
59 Quentin was lucky QR to Flora Whitney, 30 Apr., 2 May 1918 (FWM); Eleanor Roosevelt to mother, 19 Apr. 1918 (TRJP); Richard Derby to TR, 13 Mar. 1918 (ERDP).
60 Roosevelt chafed TR, Letters, 8.1311; ERD to Richard Derby, 22 Apr. 1918 (ERDP); TR, Letters, 8.1312. Shipments of men and matériel, Stout wrote, were in fact accelerating at a compound rate. By June, the flood should be overwhelming. “Neither a newspaper or a public man,” he cautioned TR, “can afford to be too far ahead