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60 Roosevelt had to Boston Evening Record, 26 June 1902, in Presidential scrapbook (TRP).
61 WASHINGTON WAS Morris, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, 238–39; William Seale, The President’s House (Washington, D.C., 1986), vol. 2, 669–84.
62 He took up James Garfield diary, 27 June 1902 (JRG). Of the fourteen specific requests TR had made in his First Message to Congress, only three had been granted: the National Reclamation Act, the Canal Act, and the Census Act. TR’s eleven failures were to get government supervision of trusts; publicity as a remedy for trust abuses; an anti-anarchism measure; stronger immigration laws; modified reciprocity; aid to American shipping; a militia law; a General Staff of the Army; a revised merit system; a Department of Commerce; and reorganizaton of the consular service.
63 Invitations were New York Herald, 15 June 1902; Washington Times, 30 Mar. 1902.
64 Congress adjourned John Hay to Henry Adams, 11 July 1902 (JH); Barry, Forty Years, 274–75; The Washington Post, 4 July 1902; Review of Reviews, Aug. 1902.
Chronological Note: The war had lasted forty-one months. 126,500 Americans had seen service in the Philippines; 4,200 had been killed, and 2,800 wounded. TR’s amnesty specifically excluded the Moros of Mindanao, who, as Muslims, were fanatically determined to fight to the last man. Their terrorism was to sputter on through most of his Presidency. Nevertheless, the former Filipino rebel leader Emilio Aguinaldo told William H. Taft that TR’s peaceful gesture “was worth more than many regiments of soldiers.” For the rapid moderation of American domestic argument about the Philippines after Malvar’s surrender and TR’s order, see Miller, “Benevolent Assimilation,” 245–50.
CHAPTER 8: THE GOOD OLD SUMMERTIME
1 Th’ capital iv Dunne, Observations by Mr. Dooley, 186–87.
2 SUMMER RAIN WAS Except where otherwise indicated, the following account of TR’s arrival home on 5 July 1902 is based on the New York American, 6 July 1902; “Oyster Bay: The Summer Capital,” Washington Times, 13 July 1902 (text and illustrations); unidentified news clips in Presidential scrapbook (TRP); and pictures in Albert Loren Cheney, Personal Memoirs of the Home Life of the Late Theodore Roosevelt (Washington, D.C., 1919), passim. Today, the rail approach is much the same, and the “new” station of 1902 still stands, minus only its platform awnings.
3 “There are many” Boston Herald, 3 Aug. 1902. The standard village history is Frances Irvin, Oyster Bay: A Sketch, rev. Jane Soames Knickerson (Oyster Bay, N.Y., 1987).
4 The little community New York World, 6 July 1902; New York Tribune, 7 July 1902; Washington Times, 5 and 9 July 1902.
5 The surrey splashed Washington Times, 16 July 1902; New York Herald, 11 Aug. 1902; New York Evening Sun, 7 July 1902; P. James Roosevelt to author, 4, 5, 19, 20 Apr. 1983 (AC); Boston Herald, 3 Aug. 1902; map preserved by Mrs. Philip Roosevelt, privately held.
6 Turning north, the Boston Herald, 3 Aug. 1902.
7 A private driveway Washington Times, 17 June 1902; New York Evening Sun, 3 July 1902; New York Herald, 8 July 1902.
8 RAIN GAVE WAY TR, Works, vol. 3, 314.
9 “Among Long Island” Ibid., 316–17.
10 Ovenbirds fluted Ibid., 318.
11 “They come up” Ibid.
12 To the west Boston Herald, 3 Aug. 1902; Kermit Roosevelt, The Happy Hunting-Grounds (New York, 1920), 22–23.
13 No matter how New York Sun, 8 July 1902; New York World, 13 July 1902 (CORDON OF GUARDS ABOUT PRESIDENT); The Washington Post, 11 July 1902. The President’s security detail consisted of five Secret Service men and two policemen (New York World, 6 July 1902). Other agents were stationed twenty-four hours a day in a hotel in the village and at the station. Any given visitor was scrutinized at least three times en route to Sagamore Hill. See Walter S. Bowen and Harry E. Neal, The United States Secret Service (Philadelphia, 1960).
14 a gun butt protruding Edna M. Colman, White House Gossip