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15 “The elevation of the negro race”: James A. Garfield, Inaugural Address, March 4, 1881.
16 “black men who had been slaves”: “How the Address Was Received,” New York Times, March 5, 1881.
17 “The emancipated race”: James A. Garfield, Inaugural Address, March 4, 1881.
18 “There was the utmost silence”: “How the Address Was Received,” New York Times, March 5, 1881.
19 “Mr. Garfield will doubtless leave”: New York Times, August 6, 1881, quoted in Theodore Clarke Smith, The Life and Letters of James Abram Garfield, 435.
20 “No trades, no shackles”: Garfield, Diary, August 9, 1880, 4:439.
21 “I need hardly add”: Peskin, Garfield, 528.
22 On March 1, Levi Morton: Chidsey, The Gentleman from New York, 326; Connery, “Secret History of the Garfield-Conkling Tragedy,” 152.
23 “Allison broke down”: Garfield, Diary, March 4, 1881, 4:552.
24 “The Senate”: Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, 309.
25 “The nomination of Garfield”: John Sherman to Governor Foster, June 30, 1880; Sherman, Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet, 777–78.
26 “using his influence and power”: “The Republican Campaign,” New York Times, June 19, 1880.
27 “a little reckless”: Garfield, Diary, March 28, 1875, 4:48.
28 “I ask this”: Quoted in Peskin, Garfield, 519.
29 “His appointment would act”: Ibid., 517, 526.
30 The only public position Arthur had held: Reeves, Gentleman Boss, 63.
31 “The nomination of Arthur”: Ackerman, Dark Horse, 132.
32 “The Ohio men have offered”: Quoted in Hudson, Random Reflections of an Old Political Reporter, 96–99.
33 “For his enemies”: Rockwell, “From Mentor to Elberon,” Century Magazine, 437.
34 “a stranger entering the House”: Ridpath, The Life and Work of James A. Garfield, Twentieth President of the United States, 272–73.
35 “You old rascal”: Peskin, Garfield, 322.
36 “determined not to be classified”: Garfield, Diary, March 23, 1881, 4:562.
37 “Of course I deprecate war”: Quoted in Ackerman, Dark Horse, 324.
Chapter 8: Brains, Flesh, and Blood
1 From an open window: The Oval Office would not be used as the president’s office until 1909, when William Howard Taft was president. Taft also renovated the room to change its shape from a rectangle to an oval.
2 “The eyes of Washington”: “Letter from Washington,” unnamed newspaper, June 3, 1881, Library of Congress.
3 “sat down to a good rattling talk”: Lucretia Garfield, Diary, April 15, 1881, in Garfield, Diary, 4:640.
4 With their help, she convinced: Seale, The President’s House, 516. Hayes’s wife, Lucille, was widely known as Lemonade Lucy because she refused to serve alcohol in the White House.
5 “abreast of current literature”: Theodore Clarke Smith, The Life and Letters of James Abram Garfield, 752.
6 “Every day I miss Spofford”: Ibid., 753.
7 While home in Mentor: Garfield, Diary.
8 “It is a pity”: Quoted in Theodore Clarke Smith, The Life and Letters of James Abram Garfield, 923.
9 For Garfield, being able to work: Feis, Mollie Garfield in the White House, 60.
10 While nine-year-old Abe: Whitcomb and Whitcomb, Real Life at the White House, 174. The East Room is the largest room in the White House, and as such has often been used as a playroom by presidents’ children. Tad Lincoln tied a goat to a chair so that it could pull him through the room. Theodore Roosevelt’s children roller-skated through it, as did Jimmy Carter’s daughter, Amy.
11 “Whatever fate may await me”: Rockwell, “From Mentor to Elberon,” Century Magazine, 434. (Hoc opus, hic labor est. “That is the work, that is the task.” From The Aeneid, Book VI.)
12 “I am the first mother”: New York Times, March 23, 1881.
13 “cozy and home like”: New York Times, July 8, 1881.
14 “Slept too soundly”: Lucretia Garfield, Diary, March 5, 1881, in Garfield, Diary, 4:628.
15 “This is the way in which”: “Patronage in Our Politics,” New York Times, March 27, 1881.
16 “Almost everyone who comes to me”: Quoted in Peskin, Garfield, 515.
17 “Let us go into the Executive mansion”: Quoted in Mr.