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15 Instead, he used Washington Times, 8 July 1902; New York World and New York Sun, 9 July 1902. Poultney Bigelow describes the sensation of one of these Cooper’s Bluff plunges in Contemporary Review clip, ca. 1901, in Presidential scrapbook (TRP).
16 Yet had it Boston Herald, 3 Aug. 1902; Washington Times, 8 July 1902; Chicago Record-Herald, 12 July 1902.
17 “Cousin Theodore” Qu. by William E. Curtis in Chicago Record-Herald, 12 July 1902.
18 Rough Riders The Washington Post, 11 July 1902. Sagamore Hill is now invisible from Oyster Bay, but a contemporary photograph in Cheney, Personal Memoirs, 6, shows Sagamore Hill clearly visible across the water.
19 About once a week Chicago Record-Herald, 12 July 1902.
20 One day, he reined The Washington Post, 20 July 1902, Presidential scrapbook (TRP).
21 Unamused, the reporters New York Sun and New York Journal, 19 July 1902.
22 “It seems to me” TR, Letters, vol. 3, 303.
23 Dana withdrew his Paul Dana to TR, 1 Aug. 1902 (TRP).
24 For the younger Roosevelts Waldon Fawcett, “The President’s Summer Home at Oyster Bay,” Twentieth Century Review clip, n.d., Presidential scrapbook (TRP). When Archibald B. Roosevelt lay dying in Florida in the summer of 1979, after a long life and much world travel, he mumbled repeatedly, “Take me home.” “But you are home, Father.” “No, no—home to Sagamore.” Mrs. Archibald B. Roosevelt, Jr., interview, 20 Sept. 1981. See also Kerr, Bully Father, 151.
25 The estate, with Mrs. Philip Roosevelt interview, 24 Oct. 1982. See also Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., All in the Family (New York, 1929); Herman Hagedorn and Gary Roth, Sagamore Hill: An Historical Guide (Oyster Bay, N.Y., 1977); David H. Wallace, “Sagamore Hill: An Interior History,” in Natalie A. Naylor, Douglas Brinkley, and John Allen Gable, Theodore Roosevelt: Many-Sided American (Interlaken, N.Y., 1992), 527–46.
26 These haunts Parsons, Perchance Some Day, 234. “He was the enchanting Pied Piper of our childhood.”
27 From early morning Longworth, Crowded Hours, 6–8; Roosevelt, Happy Hunting-Grounds, 4–5; Nicholas Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt: The Man As I Knew Him (New York, 1967), 21–27. “My children,” TR robustly told a female interviewer, “are not brought up to be cowards. They are not taught to turn the other cheek if they are struck; they are told to hit back and hit hard. I won’t have any weaklings in my household. I want my boys to grow up manly and gently.” He seemed to want the same for girls, encouraging them to participate in the roughest play, and saying that he liked them to be “tomboys when they are small.” Boston Sunday Record, 3 Aug. 1902.
28 Only when he Archibald Roosevelt interview, 7 June 1977; research memorandum, n.d. (HH). TR’s own children were supplemented, that summer, by eleven Roosevelt nieces and nephews from neighboring estates. Chicago Record-Herald, 12 July 1902.
29 NO MATTER WHERE New York Evening Sun, 8 July 1902; Chicago Record-Herald, 12 July 1902.
30 A new magazine “The People at Play,” World’s Work, Aug. 1902.
31 In the good old Sullivan, Our Times, vol. 3, 347; “In the Good Old Summertime” was the biggest popular hit of the early twentieth century.
32 THE ONLY MEMBER Alice Roosevelt diary, 21 June 1903 (ARL).
33 Heedless on the William E. Curtis in Chicago Record-Herald, 12 July 1902. It took TR just eighteen days, from 5 to 22 July, to read this mammoth work. See his report to John Hay in TR, Letters, vol. 3, 300.
34 ON 14 JULY Schirmer, Republic or Empire, 439.
35 The general’s fellow TR to Albert Shaw, 1 Sept. 1902 (TRP).
36 For a moment TR had signed the Act into law on 1 July 1902. It was Taft’s overoptimistic hope that the Philippine legislature could begin functioning as early as 1 Jan. 1904, well in advance of the next presidential election. William H. Taft to Elihu Root, 26 Mar. 1902 (ER).
37 “I thoroughly believe” TR, Letters, vol. 3, 298.
38 Smith, however Ibid.; Bishop, Theodore Roosevelt, vol. 1, 194.
39 After dinner Washington Times and New York Sun, 14 July 1902; TR, Letters, vol. 3, 189n, 303–6. For