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48 Knox felt that Washburn, Theodore Roosevelt, 67–68.
49 For once in Eitler, “Philander Chase Knox,” 63–64.
50 Farther off, in See Henry Clay Frick to P. C. Knox, 11 Nov. 1901 and 5 Feb. 1902 (PCK).
51 a fourteen-page opinion Draft in PCK; New York Herald, 10 Feb. 1902. The actual delivered opinion is now lost. Eitler theorizes (although the Herald reports otherwise) that it was given to TR orally. “Philander Chase Knox,” 64.
52 “If you instruct” Qu. by Walter Wellman in Chicago Record-Herald, 16 Mar. 1904 (a leak of TR’s own telling of the story to his Cabinet, the day before).
53 “Mr. Hanna,” Martin, James J. Hill, 514.
54 Hanna, preoccupied with Ibid. The New York Times, 20 Feb. 1902.
55 “The government has” Mark Hanna to Charles E. Perkins, memorandum, 11 July 1904, qu. in Martin, James J. Hill, 515. Griggs was already representing Hill in Knox’s suit.
56 “Within a very” The New York Times, 20 Feb. 1902.
57 The statement was Thompson, Party Leaders, 312; Thorelli, Federal Antitrust Policy, 563. The Minnesota suit indeed was rejected. Review of Reviews, Apr. 1902; Martin, James J. Hill, 512.
58 Knox’s willingness Literary Digest, 1 Mar. 1902; New York Herald, The Washington Post, New York Sun, and New York World, 21 Feb. 1902.
59 It had been The New York Times and New York Herald, 21 Feb. 1902; Adams, Letters, vol. 5, 344–45; Knox qu. in Historical Register, 1921, 60.
60 Shortly afterward New York Tribune, New York World, and Washington Evening Star, 22 Feb. 1902.
61 BEFORE NIGHTFALL New York World, 22 Feb. 1902; New York Tribune, 24 Feb. 1902. For an account of the dinner, see Adams, Letters, vol. 5, 346.
62 If the purpose Adams, Letters, vol. 5, 346; New York Tribune, 24 Feb. 1902.
63 they stood shoulder The phrase is that of L. T. Michener to E. W. Halford, ca. 25 Mar. 1902 (copy in HKB).
64 The Secretary of War Adams, Letters, vol. 5, 345–47; William H. Taft to Mrs. Taft, 1 Mar. 1902 (WHT); Cleveland Plain Dealer, 25 Mar. 1902; William H. Taft qu. in Archibald Butt, Taft and Roosevelt: The Intimate Letters of Archie Butt (New York, 1930), 2, 690. Harbaugh, Life and Times, 160–61, discusses TR’s probable reasons for excluding Root.
65 Either that, or Adams, Letters, vol. 5, 347.
66 There was something See Edward Steichen’s famous 1903 portrait of Morgan, reproduced with another “take” in Strouse, Morgan, 496–97.
67 Yet interlocutors Ray Stannard Baker, “Morgan”; “J. P. Morgan,” bound obituaries file, 1913, NYPL. The definitive life is Strouse, Morgan.
68 “That is just” Bishop, Theodore Roosevelt, vol. 1, 184–85. For another interpretation of this famous dialogue, see Kolko, Triumph of Conservatism, 69.
69 “send your man” “Your man” is Knox; “my man” is Francis Lynde Stetson, Morgan’s personal attorney.
70 Alone with Knox Bishop, Theodore Roosevelt, vol. 1, 184–85.
71 THE HOUSE OF The New York Times, 31 Mar. 1913, in Knox scrapbooks (PCK); Knox qu. in New York American, 12 Jan. 1912, Knox scrapbooks (PCK).
72 Knox’s formal complaint The New York Times, 11 Mar. 1902; James Montgomery Beck, May It Please the Court (New York, 1930), 333.
73 OF THE THREE Martin, James J. Hill, 515–16; The New York Times, 21 Feb. 1902; Meyer, “The Northern Securities Case,” 246–47; Joseph G. Pyle, The Life of James J. Hill (New York, 1917), vol. 2, 171–72.
74 Roosevelt’s action Adler, Jacob H. Schiff, vol. 1, 111; Albert Shaw in Review of Reviews, Apr. 1902; Robert Wiebe, Businessmen and Reform (Cambridge, Mass., 1902), 44; Eitler, “Philander Chase Knox,” 67–68; Presidential scrapbook (TRP). TR was emphatic that his object was not to extend the applicability of Knight as to overturn it, and thus revitalize the necessity for some government control over business.
75 “I am rather” TR, Letters, vol. 3, 236.
76 He pretended to Lee, Good Innings, vol. 1, 261; TR, Letters, 3, 225, 237; Presidential scrapbook (TRP); TR, Letters, 3, 237, 239; Irwin