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51 ELIHU ROOT RETURNED Welch, Response to Imperialism, 142; Alfonso, Theodore Roosevelt and the Philippines, 103.
52 When Lodge rose The Washington Post, 5 May 1902.
53 He began to read Ibid.; Henry Cabot Lodge to George H. Lyman, 15 Feb. 1902 (MHS). Another imaginative Filipino technique included the slitting open of American bodies and stuffing them with United States Army mess provisions. Miller, “Benevolent Assimilation,” 204.
54 Over the next Welch, Response to Imperialism, 144; Some senators, notably Henry Cabot Lodge, were unenthusiastic about the bill’s assembly clause, but with Taft’s powerful encouragement they eventually accepted it. Gould, Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, 58.
55 Only George F. Thompson, Party Leaders, 58–71; George F. Hoar to Carl Schurz, 3 June 1902 (CS). This incident occurred on 18 May 1902. See also Hoar to TR, 15 June 1902 (TRP), and TR’s moving reply in Letters, vol. 3, 276–77.
56 “Everybody that” George F. Hoar to Carl Schurz, 3 June 1902 (CS).
57 A few seconds before noon Washington Times, 20 May 1902; The New York Times, 21 May 1902; Leonard Wood diary, 20 May 1902 (LW).
58 On the roof Frank McCoy to his mother, May 1902 (FMcC); The New York Times, 21 May 1902; news clips and photographs in Leonard Wood scrapbook (LW).
59 “—and I hereby” The New York Times, 21 May 1902.
60 From far across Philadelphia Press, 21 May 1902; Frank McCoy to his mother, May 1902 (FMcC).
61 By any standards This sentence is paraphrased from one in Howard Gillette, Jr., “The Military Occupation of Cuba, 1899–1902: Workshop for American Progressivism,” American Quarterly, Oct. 1973. See Healy, United States in Cuba, 179–86.
62 A trained surgeon Leonard Wood, transcript of speech at Williams College, 25 June 1902 (LW). See also Leonard Wood, “The Military Government of Cuba,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 21.30 (1903); and Gillette, “Military Occupation of Cuba.”
63 The cannons continued New York Herald, 21 May 1902; Leonard Wood diary, 20 May 1902 (LW); James Hitchman, “The American Touch in Imperial Administration: Leonard Wood in Cuba, 1898–1902,” The Americas, Apr. 1968; Healy, United States in Cuba, 180–82 (“By the end of 1901, free public education was a reality in Cuba”). Gillette, “Military Occupation of Cuba,” suggests that Wood’s experiment did much to inspire the Progressive reform movement in the United States.
64 What protection Leonard Wood to Elihu Root, 9 Apr. 1902 (ER).
65 The forty-fifth Washington Times, 20 May 1902; Frank McCoy to his mother, May 1902 (FMcC).
66 There were groans Eyewitness account in Harry Frank Guggenheim, The United States and Cuba: A Study in International Relations (New York, 1934), 99; New York Herald, 21 May 1902; Leonard Wood diary, 20 May 1902 (LW). Wood also took with him an extremely detailed, up-to-date map of Cuba, to give to the War Department, and a complete survey of Havana harbor and its environs, “including all fortifications, fieldworks, etc.” Wood to Elihu Root, 18 Nov. 1902 (ER).
67 As soon as Leonard Wood diary, 20 May 1902 (LW); Hill, Roosevelt and the Caribbean, 77; New York World, 19 May 1902.
CHAPTER 7: GENIUS, FORCE, ORIGINALITY
1 What’s all this Dunne, Observations by Mr. Dooley, 91.
2 THEODORE ROOSEVELT’S TOTAL New York World, 19 May 1902; Oswald Garrison Villard, Fighting Years: Memories of a Liberal Editor (New York, 1939), 152.
3 Whether exercising New York World, 19 May 1902.
4 On 28 May New York World, 29 May 1902; William Dudley Foulke, A Hoosier Autobiography (New York, 1922), 117; Leupp, The Man Roosevelt, 311–13; Wister, Roosevelt, 93–99; New York World, 3 May 1902. For TR’s introduction to this new and exotic sport, see Akiko Murakata, “Theodore Roosevelt and William Sturgis Bigelow: The Story of a Friendship,” Harvard Library Bulletin 23.1 (1975).
5 White House groundsmen John Burroughs, Camping and Tramping with Roosevelt (Boston, 1907), 84; New York World, 30 Mar. 1902. Calvin Brice remarked that he intended in the future “to observe the President from the safe