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41 A voice called out TR to John J. Leary, Leary Notebooks (TRC).
42 How often had Philip C. Jessup, Elihu Root (New York, 1938), vol. 1, 423; Morris, Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, 677–79; Wallace G. Chessman, “Theodore Roosevelt’s Personal Tax Difficulty,” New York History 34 (1953): 54–63. See also Jessup, Elihu Root, vol. 1, chap. 10.
43 Returning to his carriage Buffalo Courier, 15 Sept. 1901; Wilcox scrapbook.
44 a strange hothouse glow This library is now the centerpiece of the restored Wilcox Mansion, officially known as the Theodore Roosevelt National Inaugural Site, a public museum.
45 The luminescence came Wilcox scrapbook; TR, Letters, vol. 1, 582; Morris, Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, 376.
46 They proceeded to report For a typical reminiscence of the ceremony, see Joseph I. C. Clarke, My Life and Memories (New York, 1925), 373.
47 The library clock Buffalo Courier, Buffalo Express, and New York Sun, 15 Sept. 1901; Hazel, “Story.” The Secretary of War’s emotional struggle might have been more comprehensible to people in the room had they realized that exactly twenty years before, Root had organized another emergency inauguration—that of Chester Arthur, succeeding the assassinated James A. Garfield (Root interview, 23 Jan. 1934 [PCJ]).
48 Roosevelt bowed Wilcox scrapbook; The New York Times and New York Sun, 15 Sept. 1901.
49 This speech The New York Times, 15 Sept. 1901; New York World, 17 Sept. 1901.
50 Roosevelt spoke with Pittsburgh Press, n.d., Wilcox scrapbook. Milburn was a director of the American Express Company and Chase National Bank. Depew, in addition to being Senator, was chairman of the New York Central Railroad.
51 Elihu Root had Root interview, 23 Jan. 1934 (PCJ); Jessup, Elihu Root, vol. 1, 238. In his Autobiography, TR failed to mention this debt to Root. Root’s advice had been preceded, earlier in the day, by similar instructions from TR’s brother-in-law, Douglas Robinson, in a letter hand-delivered to the Wilcox Mansion (13 Sept. 1901 [TRP]).
52 Judge Hazel clutched Wilcox scrapbook; Depew in New York Sun, 16 Sept. 1901.
53 Two minutes ticked by New York World and New York Herald, 15 Sept. 1901. During these mute moments, wrote William Allen White, “youth, which he has clung to so fondly, left him, and maturity came.” White, “Theodore Roosevelt,” McClure’s, Nov. 1901.
54 “Mr. President,” Buffalo Courier, The New York Times, and Chicago Tribune, 15 Sept. 1901.
55 “I have witnessed” New York Sun, 16 Sept. 1901.
56 ROOSEVELT REMAINED Wilcox scrapbook.
57 A reporter was struck Clarke, My Life, 373.
58 The Cabinet meeting Buffalo Courier, 15 Sept. 1901.
59 Business completed New York Sun, New York Herald, and Buffalo Courier, 15 Sept. 1901. For a detailed study of TR’s security from this day on, see Richard B. Sherman, “Presidential Protection During the Progressive Era: The Aftermath of the McKinley Assassination,” Historian, Nov. 1983.
60 Refuge was The following passage refers to the manuscript of TR’s draft proclamation, preserved in the Wilcox scrapbook.
61 It had always been thus Owen Wister, Roosevelt: The Story of a Friendship (New York, 1930), 68.
62 AT FOUR O’CLOCK Buffalo Courier, The New York Times, and New York Herald, 15 Sept. 1901; Elmer Dover, Hanna’s secretary, interviewed by J. B. Morrow, Sept. 1905 (MHM).
63 Seated inside Years later, TR still marveled at Hanna’s toughness that afternoon. “Not a particle of subserviency … no worship of the rising sun!” TR interviewed by J. B. Morrow, 17 Apr. 1906 (MHM).
64 That evening, George Wilcox scrapbook.
65 SOMETIME AFTER MIDNIGHT The New York Times, 15 Oct. 1912. See also Morris, Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, 505–6, 824n119.
66 Now, as he Schrank memorandum, 15 Sept. 1912, qu. in Robert Donovan, The Assassins (New York, 1955), 137.
67 “This is my murderer” See ibid., 137–45, for an account of what happened in 1912.
68 ROOSEVELT AWOKE REFRESHED Chicago Tribune and New York World, 16 Sept.