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88. Whi.299 speaks of “that summer day” in describing his first meeting with TR, but elsewhere refers to it as “autumn.” Late August or early September seem most likely.
89. Reprinted in Boorstin, Daniel, ed., An American Primer, U. Chicago Press (1966), Vol. 2, 584 ff.
90. These paras. based on Whi.296–9; also Joh. passim.
91. Whi.297.
92. White (ib.), writing in the late 1930s, says the lunch took place at the Army and Navy Club. This is probably a slip of memory, given TR’s fondness for the Metropolitan Club, not to mention its double lamb chops, which White nostalgically describes. TR’s papers for the period are full of Metropolitan chits for double lamb chops: he seems to have had an insatiable passion for the dish.
93. Whi.298.
94. Ib., 297–8.
95. Ib.
96. The following account is taken from the Herald, Sep. 9, and Sun, Sep. 9 and 24, 1897.
97. Charles H. Cramp. qu. Pau.397.
98. The party included Frederic Remington, the artist, as well as two reporters carefully selected by TR as part of his naval public-relations effort.
99. Mor. 680.
100. Mor.675, 90; see TR to HCL, Sep. 24, Mor.689.
101. Ib., 676. The account of the following conversation comes entirely from this letter.
102. Carpenter, Frank, Carp’s Washington (McGraw-Hill, 1960), 179.
103. Descr. of McKinley based on Whi.292, 333–5; Carpenter, 27; John Hay to HA, Oct. 20, 1896 (Hay.3.78); Bee.480; pics. and pors. For the President’s extraordinary gaze, see, e.g., Lor.360 and the last por. in Morg; also LaFollette qu. Lee.38–9: “The pupils of his eyes would dilate until they became almost black, and his face, naturally without much color, would become almost like marble.”
104. Mor.677.
105. TR to B, Sep. 17; Mor.685, 717; Karsten, 592. (Ib. notes how closely TR’s plan matched the actual course of the war.)
106. Mor.682–9.
107. Un. clip, TR.Scr.
108. Senator Chandler’s letter was dated Sep. 25 (TRP), but since that was a Saturday, it follows that it would have been neither delivered nor read until Monday Sep. 27, the date of TR’s reply.
109. The following account is based on Nicholson, 223–6, plus other sources as cited below.
110. Mor.691.
111. Ib., 691–2.
112. TR.Auto.216.
113. Sprout, 224; Nicholson, 226.
114. Mor.692, 915; TR.Auto.217.
115. Dewey, George, Autobiography, 169–70; TR.Auto.216. Although the main facts of Dewey’s appointment, as detailed above, are borne out by many sources, there is some ambiguity about the time-sequence of events postdating Long’s return on Sep. 28. According to Spector, 38, it was not until Oct. 16 that Senator Proctor reported McK’s favorable response to his appeal. But Dewey (Autobiography) and Nicholson, 224–26, both imply that things were settled on the day that Long returned. If so, TR would only have delayed Sen. Chandler’s letter by a few hours, until the Secretary recognized Dewey’s appointment as a fait accompli. It is hardly possible that he could have held on to the letter until Oct. 16. Whatever the case, there can be no doubt that TR was in large part responsible for making Dewey C-in-C of the Asiatic Squadron, and for the infinitely larger consequences of that appointment. (Spector, 32–9; Bea.63; Mor.822–3, 915; Nicholson, 227.)
116. Mor.694–7, 710.
117. Lod.286; TR to B, Oct. 17 and 28; Mor. 702–9.
118. TR.Wks.XI.xi.
119. Mor.750, 66, 713, 707.
120. Pau.459.
121. Mor.713; TR to B, Nov. 30, 1897.
122. Grenville, 35.
123. Mor.1.717 (italics mine).
124. Qu. Pau.460.
125. Mor.790.
126. Eve. Post, Jan. 4, 1898. See Bur.49 and TR.Wks.XIV.427–37 for more on the Personnel Bill.
127. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, XI.271–5 (Dec. 17, 1897).
128. See Woo.45 ff.
129. Sep. 19, 1897.
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Important sources not listed in Bibliography: 1. Paullin, Charles Oscar, Paullin’s History of Naval Administration 1775–1911 (U.S. Naval Institute, 1968).
1. Mil.93.
2. The Maine had been in Key West since December 15 of the previous year, “under confidential instructions to proceed at once to Havana in the event