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100 He waited until Eyewitness account, by the Australian, in unidentified news clip, “Comment” scrapbook. See also TR, Letters, vol. 3, 558–59.
101 “a square deal” Ibid., TR’s famous political image, although hinted at in Jamestown, N.D., on 7 Apr., had first been articulated during his Grand Canyon speech of 6 May. In that case, he applied it to American Indians, but square deal quickly became a metaphor for his whole domestic political program of mediation between forces. It was the rhetorical inspiration of Franklin Roosevelt’s “New Deal” and Harry Truman’s “Fair Deal.” John Allen Gable, “Theodore Roosevelt and the Square Deal,” Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal 17.3 (1991).
102 “My address was” TR, Letters, vol. 3, 559–60.
103 Roosevelt left Ibid., 561.
104 the concept of equilibrium See Morris, Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, 151–52, for TR’s search for a fulcrum on his very first night in politics.
105 Justice separating good Kerr, Bully Father, 126; TR, Letters to Kermit, 61; New York Sun, 5 June 1903. The phrase, translated into Latin, was engraved on TR’s inaugural medal in 1905.
106 “Envy and arrogance” New York Sun, 4 June 1903. “Evidently the new [twentieth-century] American would need to think in contradictions, and in spite of Kant’s famous four antinomies, the new universe would know no law that could not be proved by its anti-law” (Education of Henry Adams, 497–98). TR’s ability to “think in contradictions” both fascinated and infuriated Adams. See below, Interlude.
107 Roosevelt was sitting The following account comes from Editor & Publishers, 13 June 1903.
108 “Guests who find” Ibid. Beveridge and Fairbanks were arch-rivals for control of Indiana’s state Republican organization in 1903, and for TR’s favor as possible Vice Presidential candidates in 1904.
CHAPTER 16: WHITE MAN BLACK AND BLACK MAN WHITE
1 Th’ black has “Mr. Dooley” in Salt Lake City Daily Tribune, 10 Nov. 1901.
2 SENATOR BEVERIDGE AND Washington Evening Star, 5 June 1903; Jules Jusserand to Théophile Delcassé, 16 June 1903 (JJ); Cleveland Plain Dealer, 28 May 1903. On 10 June 1903, Mark Hanna privately promised TR that he would “support him for renomination.” Both men apparently regarded this pledge as “a contract.” Dawes, Journal of the McKinley Years, 363.
3 Roosevelt now enjoyed The Washington Post, 6 June 1903. His current pledges gave him 496 committed, and possibly 730, convention votes. He needed only 493 votes to clinch the nomination.
4 “I thank you again” The Washington Post, 6 June 1903.
5 Although the President EKR to William Loeb, 21 Apr. 1903 (TRB); EKR to Kermit Roosevelt, 29 Apr. and 10 May 1903 (KR); Washington Times, 3 May 1903.
6 Perhaps Edith had The following catalog of calories is drawn from “Comment” scrapbook.
7 There would be The New York World, which for some reason was perennially interested in TR’s weight, reported it at two hundred pounds on 14 June 1903, seventeen pounds more than at the start of his tour. The newspaper suggested that he should weigh no more than 195 pounds for his height (five feet nine inches) and frame. Modern medical opinion would put his ideal weight at about 145 pounds, and define his actual weight as obese.
8 A younger, slimmer Homer Davenport in San Francisco Examiner, 3 May 1903; TR, Letters, vol. 3, 391. The Encke portrait now hangs at the Sagamore Hill National Historic Site, Oyster Bay, N.Y. The famous Sargent, painted between 14 and 18 Feb. 1903, is still at the White House.
9 He never failed Maria Longworth Storer, Theodore Roosevelt the Child (privately printed, 1921), 24; TR to John Hay, John Hay diary, 8 May 1904 (JH); see, e.g., TR, Letters, vol. 3, 422. (“The Sewalls were here.… They came to the Congressional reception, and altogether they showed to great advantage. I was very proud of them.”) See also chap. 9 notes, above.
10 Although political Wagenknecht, Seven Worlds, 151–52; TR, Works, vol. 17, 39.
11 Yet his wife EKR to Nannie Lodge, 14 June 1903 (HCL); Speck von Sternburg