The rise of Theodore Roosevelt - Edmund Morris [447]
42. Mor.627–8.
43. Ib., 628–9. (But TR was not above “confiscating and filing” documents himself—for example a list of official complaints that threatened to slow his pet torpedo-boat construction program. See Mor.630.)
44. Mor. 628. It will be remembered that this was just where Boss Platt had worried that TR might interfere with organization patronage.
45. Mor.629–631; see also TR to B, Apr. 30, 1897.
46. Bea.57–60.
47. Mor.624, 635.
48. Reprinted in TR.Wks.XIII.
49. Qu. Sul.389.
50. Literature, Apr. 23, 1898, qu. Edel, Leon, Henry James: The American Essays (N.Y., 1956). (For a favorable review of Ideals, see Harvard Grad. Mag., March 1898.)
51. See Bea.474 for a sample list of TR’s contributions; also Pra.222; also, e.g., Mor.622.
52. Grenville 36–7; Mor.627. The entire next para. based on Grenville. He prints the war plan as an appendix, 41–47.
53. Grenville, 43. (He notes that this plan also contained the first known war plan against Japan, anticipating War Plan Orange by some sixteen years.)
54. TR to EKR, June 18, 1897, qu. Hag. LW. 1.138; see also TR.Wks.XI. xiii.
55. Mor.652.
56. Descr. taken from Hag.LW. passim; Holme, John G., Life of Leonard Wood (N.Y., 1920), 6; pics. and pors. in TRB.
57. See N.Y. Tribune, May 10, 1894.
58. Lod.285. Wood had come to Washington in Sep. 1895 as Assistant Attending Surgeon to President Cleveland. Hag.LW.1.133.
59. Descr. taken from Spector, passim; Nicholson, passim; pics. and pors.
60. Nicholson, 214; Spector 30–39 for background.
61. Qu. Clemens, Will M., The Life of Admiral GD (N.Y., 1899), 73.
62. TR.Auto.216.
63. Nicholson, 221 (but Spector disagrees).
64. Spector, 32.
65. Ib., 36.
66. TR to B, Aug. 17, 1897.
67. Mor.620, 649. (See Roosevelt, Nicholas, TR: The Man as I Knew Him (Dodd, Mead, 1967) for one child’s memory of these summers at Sagamore Hill.)
68. Mor.625; Las.118–9, 167; Asbell, B., The FDR Memoirs (NY, 1973). Like TR, FDR went to Harvard, edited a college newspaper, studied at Columbia Law School, entered the State Legislature in his twenties, and then became successively Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Governor of New York, and President of the United States. He also married TR’s niece.
69. TR to B, July 10, 1897.
70. These Rooseveltian comments actually date from a similar torpedo-boat ride in the second week of May (Sun, May 22), but seem quite relevant here. For admiring press comments on his report on the torpedo-boats, see ib., and W. Post, May 23.
71. Mor.635; see Sun, Aug. 10, for TR’s report of this tour.
72. Herald, July 24; Tribune, July 27. (Ib., July 31, prints a letter saying TR was misquoted, but TR himself admitted to Lodge that the speech was reported “with substantial accuracy.” Mor.637.)
73. Lee. 106. Long had suffered a nervous breakdown in 1896.
74. Mor. 637.
75. TR’s own phrase. See TR to Bellamy Storer, Sep. 2, 1897; also Mor. 691.
76. Pau.365.
77. Ib.; see also chart 4, “The Navy Department,” in Mor.627; see Karsten, Peter, The Naval Aristocracy (N.Y., 1972), on the Navy as a social phenomenon in 19th-century America.
78. Mor. 655, 673.
79. Adams, Henry, The Education of HA (Houghton Mifflin, 1974), 417.
80. Mor. 637–65 passim.
81. LON. diaries passim.
82. Mor.662. Reading through TR’s correspondence with Long during the summer of 1897, one cannot help noticing how scrupulous he was in upholding the Secretary’s dignity. The letters, for all their amusing insistence that Long extend his vacation, are models of frankness and courtesy. See Mor.639–64.
83. Ib., 647.
84. Ib., 652, 4, 61.
85. Ib., 664.
86. Sun, Sep. 5, 1897; Proceedings of the U.S. Naval Institute (23) 509 ff. (1897).
87. TR.Scr. For sample comment,