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4 “You must always” Spring Rice to Valentine Chirol, qu. in Wagenknecht, Seven Worlds, 11.
5 Charles William Eliot Qu. in Richard Olney to Grover Cleveland, 14 Jan. 1902 (GC); Ecclesiastes 10:16, qu. in ibid.
6 It was the lunches “I feel as though I should bust,” he wrote Nannie Cabot Lodge, “if I am not able to discuss at length and without my usual cautious reserve several questions—Dewey, Schley, Hanna, Foraker, Cuba, Bagehot’s Shakespeare, the Hallstadt culture as connected with Homer’s Acheans, the latest phase of the Monroe Doctrine, and the Boston Mayoralty elections.” TR, Letters, vol. 8, 1442.
7 The Washington social For descriptions of the 1902 season, which included Alice Roosevelt’s coming-out ball, see Rixey, Bamie, chap. 21, and Morris, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, 228–38.
8 “Theodore is never” Adams, Letters, vol. 5, 345. See also “Wanted: A President,” The Washington Post, 1 Jan. 1902.
9 Adams was back Adams, Letters, vol. 5, 322–23.
10 The Fifty-seventh Ibid., 359; TR, Letters, vol. 3, 225–27.
11 Roosevelt made it Amy Belle Cheney [secretary], memo, n.d. (HH); Robinson, My Brother, 229; TR qu. in Messmore Kendall, Never Let Weather Interfere (New York, 1946), 130. Koenig, Invisible Presidency, 151, claims that TR dictated as many as two or three hundred letters a day.
12 He hesitated only See, e.g., TR, Letters, vol. 3, 239–40, 242. William James wrote approvingly of “the safety of his second thoughts.” Henry James, ed., The Letters of William James (Boston, 1926), vol. 2, 232.
13 The President was Lewis F. Einstein, Roosevelt: His Mind in Action (Boston, 1930), 104; TR, Letters, vol. 3, 218.
14 “Roosevelt,” declared George F. Parker, Recollections of Grover Cleveland (New York, 1911), 250.
15 ON FRIDAY, 3 JANUARY The New York Times, 4 Jan. 1902; McCullough, Path Between the Seas, 263.
16 Hanna said that Dwight C. Miner, The Fight for the Panama Route (New York, 1940), 125. The reader should bear in mind a distinction, in the story here beginning, between the Isthmian Canal Commission (“Walker Commission”) and Senate Committee on Interoceanic Canals (“Morgan Committee”).
17 It had recommended New York Tribune, 4 Jan. 1902.
18 At least one McCullough, Path Between the Seas, 293. Earlier that morning, Hanna had urgently summoned Spooner to a meeting behind closed doors with sympathetic members of the Isthmian Commission (JCS).
19 On the very morning McCullough, Path Between the Seas, 266.
20 “I want the report” Qu. in New York Herald, 17 Jan. 1902.
21 Morgan hurried Hanna called to warn TR that Morgan was on his way down Pennsylvania Avenue, breathing fire (George Cortelyou telephone memorandum, 16 Jan. 1902 [TRP]). According to The Story of Panama: Hearings on the Rainey Resolution Before the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives (Washington, D.C., 1913), 166, TR summoned every member of the Commission to his office immediately after the House vote on 9 Jan. in order to canvass their individual views. He then held a full, secret meeting at which he instructed the Commission to think again and issue a “unanimous” recommendation.
22 Shocked and depressed Hill, Roosevelt and the Caribbean, 36; New York Herald, 17 Jan. 1902. Lewis M. Haupt, the most pro-Nicaragua of the ICC’s eight members, held out until the report was ready for signing on Saturday. Admiral Walker then led him up and down the corridor outside the meeting room, saying that “the President was extremely anxious to have a unanimous report,” in view of anti-Panama sentiment in the Senate. Haupt reluctantly signed. Haupt to John T. Morgan, 13 Sept. 1903 (JTM).
23 Experience had taught Sullivan, Our Times, vol. 3, 74, 122; New York Herald, 21 Jan. 1902.
24 “The commission thinks” Ibid. The Herald was a pro-Nicaragua paper.
25 A “Panama boom” DuVal, Cadiz to Cathay, 157; New York Herald and The New York Times, 21 Jan. 1902.
26 Harriman began to buy Specifically, a total of $166,613, which he later sold for a profit of $88,447.38. Photostats in New York World, 17 Oct. 1910.