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94. TR to B, Oct. 13, 1889.
95. Ib., Dec. 31; Utley, “TR’s WW,” 505; Mor.200.
96. Foraker, Julia, I Would Live It Again (Harpers, 1932) 133.
97. See W. Post, Jan. 2, 1890.
98. Sto.235; Foraker, Again, 7.
99. Mor.3.486.
100. TR to B, Feb. 13, 1890.
101. Adams, Henry, The Education of Henry Adams, ed. Ernest Samuels (Houghton Mifflin, 1974) 332; Den.339.
102. See, e.g., Pla.214–5; Foraker, Again, 170; Gar.109; Butler, Nicholas Murray, Across the Busy Years (Scribner’s, 1940) 297–8; Sto.189.
103. Qu. Sto.190.
104. McCall, Samuel W., Thomas B. Reed (Houghton Mifflin, 1914) 248; character sketch, anon., TRB mss.
105. McCall, Reed, 147–8; Gar.109; Butler, Years, 297–8; Gwy.105.
106. Tha.55; Den.119. See J. B. Moore to Tyler Dennett, Nov. 18, 1929, Tyler Dennett Papers, LC, on the “distinctly effeminate” interdependence of Hay and Adams.
107. Hay, John, with John G. Nicolay, Abraham Lincoln: A History, 10 vols., 1890; Adams, Henry, History of the United States from 1801 to 1817, 9 vols., 1889–91.
108. “Good luck,” he wrote toward the end of his life, “has pursued me like my own shadow.”—to Henry Adams, July 14, 1901.
109. Qu. Samuels, Ernest, Henry Adams (Harvard, 1958–64) II.262.
110. Ib., 3.32.
111. Mor.6.1490.
112. TR to HCL, Feb. 15, 1887 (LOD.).
113. Mor.6.1490.
114. This portrait, and that of Hay above, is the author’s own, based on his reading of the private and published words of Adams, Hay, and TR, as well as their respective biographies.
115. Adams, Education, 417.
116. Ada.350.
117. Adams’s wife, a precociously intelligent woman with manic-depressive tendencies, had committed suicide in December 1885. See Samuels, Adams, II.270–276.
118. Samuels, Adams, III passim; Cater, Harold, ed., Henry Adams and His Friends (Houghton Mifflin, 1947) intro., passim; Gwy. passim. See also Lacey, Michael J., “The Mysteries of Earth-Making Dissolve: A Study of Washington’s Intellectual Community and the Origins of American Environmentalism in the Late Nineteenth Century,” Ph.D. diss., George Washington University, 1979.
119. Adams actually asked TR to live rent-free in his house with him in 1889, and was rather put out when the Commissioner declined to do so. See also Samuels, Adams, II.414; Cha.195.
120. At the White House, E. W. Halford, the President’s secretary, thoughtlessly introduced TR to one of the leading Republican spoilsmen. A violent quarrel ensued, and would have led to fisticuffs had Halford not intervened. Halford in “R’s Introduction to Washington,” Leslie’s Magazine, Mar. 1, 1919.
121. Mor.210.
122. Williams, Cleveland, “TR, Civil Service Commissioner,” U. Chicago dissertation, June 1955, 86.
123. W. Post, Jan. 21, 1890.
124. Ib.
125. House Report 1, 2. Other details covering the hearing are taken from Washington papers covering the proceedings, mainly Post and Star.
126. W. Post, Feb. 27, 1890.
127. House Report 1, 150.
128. W. Post, Mar. 1, 1890; House Report 1, 153, 191. Dr. Shidy was hurriedly fired by the Census Bureau.
129. W. Post, Mar. 1, 1890.
130. House Report 1, 163.
131. Ib., 164–5.
132. Ib., 165–6; 168–71.
133. Ib., 174–5.
134. See Wag. 148–9, 203–7.
135. House Report 1, 177.
136. Ib., 178.
137. Ib., 179–80.
138. Ib., 313.
139. Williams, “TR, CSC,” 87. The Committee, nevertheless, went ahead with its recommendation; but the House did not agree. White, Republican Era, 326.
140. TR (1912) qu. Sto.7.
141. Statement by J. J. Leary in TRB mss. There is another version of this anecdote (which Greenhalge confirmed) in Halloran, Romance, 85. The latter, however, appears to misdate it as 1891. Greenhalge must surely have made the remark in 1890, around the time he was personally encountering TR at the hearings. TR’s political stock was high then; as will be seen, it fell precipitately in 1891.
142. Mor.220.
143. W. Post, May 6, 1890. It may have been the morning after this editorial that TR was seen pacing up and down outside the Post Office building, waiting for Hatton to show up. “I want to punch his head.” Dun.I.19.
144. Mor. 215; 211. TR’s “The Merit System