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4. Perkins, The Roosevelt I Knew 31. Von Drehle, Triangle 207–208. The quote also appears in Kenneth S. Davis, FDR: The Beckoning of Destiny 263 (New York: Putnam, 1972).
5. Quoted in Ted Morgan, FDR: A Biography 127 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985); also Geoffrey Ward, A First-Class Temperament 165 (New York: Harper & Row, 1989).
6. Von Drehle, Triangle 216–217; Perkins, The Roosevelt I Knew 14. “I seen my sister go out to work when she was fifteen,” said Sullivan, “and I know we ought to help these gals by giving ’em a law which will prevent ’em from being broken down while they are still young.”
7. Elizabeth Dutcher, “Frances Perkins, Doctor of Politics,” Women Voter 12–13 (September 1912). The fifty-four-hour bill was reluctantly signed into law by Governor Dix on April 19, 1912. “I don’t think it is a good idea,” said Dix. “I think it will put women out of work. I think they’ll hire men instead. I think women will lose their jobs. Anyhow, it’s not good for them not to be fully occupied.” Quoted in Morgan, FDR 131.
8. Frances Perkins Interview, Columbia Oral History Project, Columbia University; Perkins, The Roosevelt I Knew 14.
9. Quoted in Morgan, FDR 129.
10. Presidential press conference, August 26, 1938.
11. Louis Howe, “The Winner,” The Saturday Evening Post, February 25, 1933. The fact is, it was The MacManus who held the floor until the Sullivans arrived. Von Drehle, Triangle 217.
12. FDR to Anna G. W. Dayley, February 1, 1911, FDRL.
13. FDR to Frances G. Barlow, May 24, 1911, FDRL.
14. Linda J. Lumsden, Inez: The Life and Times of Inez Milholland 75 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004). “No suffrage parade was complete without Inez Milholland,” wrote the New York Sun, “for with her tall figure and free step, her rich brown hair, blue eyes, fair skin and well cut features, she was an ideal figure of the American woman.” November 6, 1916. Also see Blanche Wiesen Cook, 1 Eleanor Roosevelt 195 (New York: Viking Penguin, 1992); Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor and Franklin 173 (New York: W. W. Norton, 1971).
15. Eleanor Roosevelt, Autobiography 68 (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1961).
16. “An Advocate of Christian Patriotism,” American Issue (March 1913).
17. [Ray Thomas Tucker], The Mirrors of 1932 85 (New York: Brewer, Warren, Putnam, 1931).
18. FDR to Dexter Blagden, February 21, 1912, FDRL.
19. Poughkeepsie News-Press, March 5, 1912 (emphasis added).
20. Freidel, Apprenticeship 134–135.
21. Wilson’s Ph.D. dissertation on the American system of government is considered a classic and is now in its fifteenth edition as Congressional Government: A Study in American Politics (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2002).
22. FDR to Ray Stannard Baker, 3 The Roosevelt Letters 467, Elliott Roosevelt, ed. (London: George G. Harrap, 1950).
23. Freidel, Apprenticeship 134–139. Wilson had attracted Wall Street’s attention while president of Princeton with a series of conservative pronouncements attacking Bryan, who he once suggested should be “knocked into a cocked hat.” Led by Colonel George Harvey, an associate of J. P. Morgan, Wall Street had bankrolled Wilson’s gubernatorial campaign as a preliminary to running him for president.
24. Champ Clark, like Wilson, was a former college president, having headed Marshall College, now Marshall University, in Huntington, West Virginia, before entering politics in Missouri.
25. The Orange County delegation nominated FDR as an alternate but was pressured by the Murphy forces and “concluded to get out from under and withdraw your name.” J. J. Bippus to FDR, April 12, 1912, FDRL.
26. FDR to O’Gorman, June 10, 1912; O’Gorman to FDR, June 15, 1912. FDRL. See especially Ernest K. Lindley, Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Career in Progressive Democracy 102–104 (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1931).
27. Josephus Daniels,