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29 His tribute degenerated TR, Works, 21.266–67.
30 Much more expressive Charles Lee interviewed by Hermann Hagedorn, c. 1919, TRB.
31 the Roosevelts declined TR, Letters, 8.1381; Kermit Roosevelt, Quentin Roosevelt, 203. The grave, which was elaborately rebuilt by the French after Chamery was retaken, no longer exists, since QR’s remains were transferred after World War II to the American Cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer. However, a roadside fountain in the village, installed by his mother, perpetuates QR’s memory, and the field where he died speaks for itself. Chamery is located on the modern D14 north of Jaulgonne-sur-Marne, between Cierges and Coulonges.
32 Every cent would go TR, Letters, 8.1363–66.
33 One of the movies The Fighting Roosevelts, directed by William Nigh, was released in 1919.
34 On 4 September The New York Times, 5 Sept. 1918; TR, Letters, 8.1368.
35 Archie had become EKR to ERD, “Wed.” [4 Sept.] 1918, photograph enclosed (ERDP); The New York Times, 3 Sept. 1918. ABR was still undergoing therapy at this institution four months later. The New York Times, 6 Jan. 1919.
36 he had become addicted For an analysis of this phenomenon, see Ecksteins, Rites of Spring, 232.
37 “Fall has come” TR to KR, 13 Sept. 1918 (WFM).
38 plenty of honor Richard Derby was also awarded a Croix de Guerre in 1918.
39 “The Colonel sat” Rinehart, My Story, 260. This was on 16 Sept. 1918.
40 he would tour The Liberty Loan campaign used hundreds of traveling celebrities (including Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, and Mary Pickford) to publicize and sell low-yield bonds for the prosecution of the war.
41 On the twenty-eighth Leary, notebook 9 (JJL); TR to KR, 13 Sept. 1918 (KRP).
42 As he traveled EKR to KR, 22 Sept. 1918 (KRP). The date of syndication was 17 Sept. 1918. (Bishop, TR, 2.458.) TR’s most recent royalty statement from Scribners totaled only $365. Charles Scribner to TR, 19 Sept. 1918 (SCR).
43 “It’s pretty poor” TR to Belle Roosevelt, 27 Oct. 1918 (ABRP).
44 On his way home Hagedorn, Roosevelt in the Bad Lands, 410.
45 “Have you got” Ibid., 473.
46 He arrived back ERD to Richard Derby, 30 Oct. 1918 (ERDP).
47 If the two physicians See below, 725.
48 “restoration of peace” Heckscher, Woodrow Wilson, 481.
49 a bloody mess The American army took “three weeks and 100,000 casualties to achieve what Pershing … had thought they could do in a single day.” Cowley, The Great War, 427–29.
50 “I regret greatly” The New York Times, 13 Oct. 1918.
51 Similar statements Cowley, The Great War, 430; Heckscher, Woodrow Wilson, 483; Strachan, The First World War, 324.
52 Following up, Roosevelt TR, Letters, 8.1380–81.
53 The President, goaded Warren (Pa.) Evening Times, 26 Oct. 1918.
54 He had hated [Gilbert], The Mirrors of Washington, 34–38.
55 Roosevelt sniffed Longworth, Crowded Hours, 274.
56 “queer feelings” ERD to KR, 27 Oct. 1918 (KRP).
57 Jokingly, he TR, Letters, 8.1383; Leary, Talks with T.R., 76.
58 “I can see” Sylvia Morris, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, 428.
59 A well-wisher The New York Times, 29 Oct. 1918. TR later learned that on his birthday, Hamilton Coolidge had been killed in action, leaving behind an unfinished memoir of QR. See Kermit Roosevelt, Quentin Roosevelt, 213ff.
60 Carnegie Hall was crammed The New York Times, 29 Oct. 1918.
61 He spoke for more Ibid. This was not, as some accounts have claimed, TR’s last speech. He spoke again (with ABR) to a Boys’ Victory Mobilization meeting in Manhattan on 1 Nov., and returned to Carnegie Hall the next night to address the benefit for Negro War Relief.
62 Over the next EKR to KR, 2 Nov. 1918 (KRP); Hagedorn, The Roosevelt Family, 422.
63 learning from newspapers Cowley, The Great War, 430; Gilbert, A History of the Twentieth Century, 520; Syracuse Herald, 5 Nov. 1918.
64 On election day The New York Times, 6 Nov. 1918; TR, Letters, 8.1397.
65 “If I had been” Quoted in John H. Richards interview (HP). See also TR, Letters, 8.1396.
66 Flat on his back TR, Letters, 8.1390; Eleanor B. Roosevelt, Day Before