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44 Cannon ignored Rowley, Reclaiming the Arid West, 103; P. P. Wells, “Theodore Roosevelt’s Conservation Record,” Oct. 1919 memorandum prepared for Joseph Bucklin Bishop (GP); Robbins, Our Landed Heritage, 331–33; Lacey, “Mysteries of Earth-Making,” 372.
45 “They must be” TR to National Irrigation Congress, 15 Sept. 1903, Letters, vol. 3, 600. TR’s role in bringing about the Reclamation Act was but a chapter in the overall story. See Samuel P. Hays, Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency: The Progressive Conservation Movement, 1890–1920 (Cambridge, Mass., 1959), 10–15. For the intellectual and sociological aspects of the reclamation movement, see Lacey, “Mysteries of Earth-Making”; for a view of the Reclamation Act as “the first and most durable example of the modern welfare state,” see Reisner, Cadillac Desert, 115ff.
46 Reclamationists spoke Beer, Hanna, 595. See also Review of Reviews, Apr. 1902. Tweton, “Theodore Roosevelt and the Arid Lands,” quotes The Denver Post: “For the happy termination of an endeavor which … appeared almost hopeless, the people of the West are indebted to President Roosevelt, without whose influence the passage of the bill would have been practically impossible.” For the subsequent application of the Reclamation Act, beginning with Nevada’s Truckee Dam (dedicated 17 June 1905), see Rowley, Reclaiming the Arid West, 1–6, and Hays, Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency, 15–26.
47 DURING THE NEXT Beer, Hanna, 601; Bunau-Varilla, Panama, 247; McCullough, Path Between the Seas, 324; Miner, Fight for the Panama Route, 154–55. At least one bribe of ten thousand dollars in cash was offered to Senator Fred T. Dubois of Idaho, on behalf of certain “New York legal interests.” John T. Morgan to Henry Watterson, 10 Dec. 1903 (JTM).
48 By a margin Review of Reviews, Aug. 1902; TR, Letters, vol. 3, 284. For a full account of the passage of the Panama Canal Act, see Miner, Fight for the Panama Route, 125–56.
49 ROOSEVELT’S EUPHORIA Washington Evening Star, 21 June 1902; Literary Digest, 26 July 1902, qu. Le Temps (France); New York Evening Post, 14 June 1902. See also Healy, United States in Cuba, 201.
50 Somewhat cheered Boston Herald, 26 June 1902; Morris, Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, 104.
51 Grief; disease; desire EKR’s miscarriage seems to have occurred in mid-May 1902. Morris, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, 237. Strangely, however, TR was still boasting about her pregnancy at the end of that month. Possibly EKR kept the news from him. A year later, she miscarried again.
52 At the welcoming The Boston Globe, 25 June 1902.
53 “When we were” Wister, Roosevelt, 7. Wister had just published his epochal Western novel, The Virginian. It was dedicated to TR.
54 The President’s behavior Henry James, Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard University, 1869–1909 (Boston, 1930), vol. 2, 159; Wood, Roosevelt, 100–101. Supplementary details in the following paragraphs come from the Boston Evening Record and The Washington Post, 26 June 1902.
55 At the Alumni Hoar qu. in Fiske Warren diary, 2 Dec. 1903 (MST). The phrase like an impulsive boy is Senator Hoar’s own. For evidence of TR’s sincere veneration of Hoar, see TR, Letters, vol. 3, 276–77.
56 Dr. Eliot began Boston Evening Record, 25 June 1902; unidentified news clips in Presidential scrapbook (TRP). For TR’s incomprehension of financial matters, see, e.g., TR, Letters, vol. 3, 691.
57 Harvard, to Theodore Alfonso, Theodore Roosevelt and the Philippines, 56–57; Boston Evening Record and The Washington Post, 26 June 1902.
58 Hay, listening John Hay to TR, 26 June 1902 (TRP); The Washington Post, 26 June 1902.
59 He dropped back Boston Herald, 26 June 1902; Rhodes, McKinley and Roosevelt, 232–33; Douglas, Many-Sided Roosevelt, 136. More than two weeks later, John Hay was still