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59. Quoted in Freidel, Apprenticeship 93.
60. Alfred B. Rollins, Jr., Roosevelt and Howe 22 (New York: Knopf, 1962).
61. Poughkeepsie Eagle, October 28, 1910.
62. FDR to L. J. Magenis, August 15, 1928; Ward, First-Class Temperament 120.
63. FDR, address at Hyde Park, November 5, 1910, speech file, FDRL.
64. Cook, 1 Eleanor Roosevelt 186.
65. Ward, First-Class Temperament 4.
66. Quoted in Ernest K. Lindley, Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Career in Progressive Democracy 78 (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1931).
67. ER, Autobiography 64.
68. ER to Isabella Ferguson, November 26, 1910, quoted in Cook, 1 Eleanor Roosevelt 525.
69. FDR’s comment is in a diary he began keeping January 1, 1911. Referring to their New York City town house, Franklin said “it is a comfort to have only three stories instead of six.” Sara’s comment is quoted in Lash, Eleanor and Franklin 170.
70. FDR diary, January 1, 1911, FDRL.
71. Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Happy Warrior, Alfred E. Smith: A Study of a Public Servant 4 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1928).
72. Quoted in Lindley, Roosevelt 82–83.
73. New York Herald, January 18, 1911.
74. The New York Times, January 18, 1911.
75. New York Post, January 17, 1911.
76. New York American, January 18, 1911.
77. The New York World, January 17, 1911.
78. New York Globe, February 6, 1911.
79. Edmund R. Terry, “The Insurgents at Albany,” 71 The Independent 538 (September 7, 1911).
80. The New York Times, January 22, 1911.
81. ER, Autobiography 66.
82. Quoted in Lash, Eleanor and Franklin 173.
83. Cook, 1 Eleanor Roosevelt 189.
84. Lindley, Franklin D. Roosevelt 85.
85. Ibid. 97.
86. Saratoga Sun, April 1, 1911.
87. Quoted in Ward, First-Class Temperament 150–151.
88. FDR to H. W. Lunger, January 30, 1928.
89. Cleveland Plain Dealer, March 30, 1911.
90. Raleigh News & Observer, April 1, 1911.
91. TR to FDR, January 29, 1911. “I am delighted with your action and told Woodrow Wilson today how he and you are serving the nation,” William Grosvenor, a prominent clergyman, wrote FDR. Quoted in Nathan Miller, FDR: An Intimate History 75.
92. The New York World, January 26, 1911.
93. Quoted in Jon Margolis, “The Boss Who Out-Daleys Daley,” Chicago Tribune, April 2, 1976.
94. James A. Farley, Jim Farley’s Story: The Roosevelt Years 68 (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1948). Said Farley, “Never was I invited to spend a night in the [White House]. Only twice did I ever make a cruise on the presidential yacht. Both were political. Never was I invited to join informal White House gatherings.”
95. Quoted in Lindley, Franklin D. Roosevelt 101.
96. The New York Times, December 25, 1911. The remarks are those of Senate clerk Patrick E. McCabe, who fired both barrels at FDR: “Disloyalty and party treachery is the political cult of a few snobs in our party … who are political accidents [and] who come as near being political leaders as a green pea does to a circus tent.”
FIVE | Awakening
The epigraph is a remark FDR made to Frances Perkins while he was president. Quoted in Frances Perkins, The Roosevelt I Knew 12 (New York: Viking, 1946).
1. For Smith on FDR, see Matthew and Hannah Josephson, Al Smith: Hero of the Cities 95 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1969). Wagner’s remarks were made while presiding over the senate as president pro tem, June 1, 1911. New York Globe, June 2, 1911. Frank Freidel, Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Apprenticeship 118–119 (Boston: Little, Brown, 1952); Perkins, The Roosevelt I Knew 11–12.
2. Perkins, The Roosevelt I Knew 11–12. Miss Perkins writes with great affection for the self-made men of Tammany. “The warm, human sympathies of these people, less than perfect as I examine their record, gave me insight into a whole stratum of American society I had not known. In contrast with these roughnecks, I don’t hesitate to say now, Franklin Roosevelt seemed just an ordinary, respectable, intelligent young man.… I was not much impressed by him.”
3. New York Tribune, March 26, 27; April 6, 1911. For a vivid depiction of the inferno, see David Von Drehle, Triangle: The Fire That Changed America