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21 With very little Jules Jusserand to Théophile Delcassé, 16 June 1903 (JJ). See also Jusserand, What Me Befell, 236–40, and Morison, Cowboys and Kings, x. Morison credits William H. Moody as the instigator of TR’s monologue. But Jusserand’s report, written only four days afterward, specifically states that he and Mme. Jusserand were Hay’s only other guests.
22 After dinner Jusserand, What Me Befell, 240; TR to John Hay, 9 Aug. 1903 (TRP). Hay said of TR’s transcript (which he bound in leather for his children), “It is a genuine nugget of life and literature, almost too valuable for any one man to own.… It will not lack companionship in a case which holds the Second Inaugural and the Gettysburg Address.” Hay to TR, 12 Aug. 1903 (TRP).
23 THE COLOMBIAN MINISTER Foreign Relations 1903, 150–51; John Hay to John A. Leishman, 24 May 1904, and Hay qu. in an unidentified profile, n.d., Hay scrapbook (JH).
24 That same day Story of Panama, 344.
25 For a half hour White House diary, 13 June 1903 (TRP); New York Herald, 14 June 1903. The following account is based on William Nelson Cromwell to TR and John Hay (enclosing draft “decaration”), 14 June 1903 (JH). Supplementary details from Cromwell’s easily identifiable news leaks to the New York World, 14 June 1903; Bunau-Varilla, Panama, 266; Dennett, John Hay, 375.
26 Roosevelt told New York World, 14 June 1903.
27 White sails crept The Washington Post, 14 June 1903.
28 Instead, he briefed Roger L. Farnham spoke to the World on condition of anonymity. Miner, Fight for the Panama Route, 293.
29 NEW REPUBLIC MAY New York World, 14 June 1903. A slightly garbled version of this article appears in Story of Panama, 345. Notwithstanding Cromwell’s desire to keep a low profile, the World reported meaningfully, “William Nelson Cromwell, general counsel of the Panama Canal Company, had a long audience with the President today.”
30 One detail missing Walter F. McCaleb, Theodore Roosevelt (New York, 1931), 157.
31 Roosevelt issued Washington Evening Star, 12 June, and New York Sun, 15 June 1903; Story of Panama, 280. Note that the “official” White House newspaper scooped the World by two days, suggesting that TR was not averse to a little leaking himself, even before he saw Cromwell.
32 ON 15 JUNE Dennett, John Hay, 397. See also John Hay, Letters, vol. 3, 310; Schoenberg, “American Reaction to the Kishinev Pogrom.” Clymer, John Hay, 75–81, argues that Hay found Jews more amusing than threatening, unlike the virulently phobic Henry Adams. Hay made an unpublicized gift of five hundred dollars to the Kishinev relief fund.
33 “Would it do” TR to Hay, 25 May 1903 (TRP); John Hay to Jacob H. Schiff, 20 May 1903 (TD).
34 Leo Levi White House press release, 15 June 1903 (TRP); Schoenberg, “American Reaction to the Kishinev Pogrom.” Russian-American relations had been cordial for most of the nineteenth century, but always fragile because of the Jewish problem. See Zabriskie, American-Russian Rivalry, chap. 1.
35 Having thus expressed White House press release, 15 June 1903 (TRP).
36 Hay responded first Ibid. At the end of his remarks, Hay brought tears to the eyes of the committee by reciting, “He that watches over Israel does not slumber.… The wrath of man now, as so often in the past, shall be made to praise him.” Simon Wolf, The Presidents I Have Known from 1860–1918 (Washington, D.C., 1918), 193, 236.
37 “I have never” White House press release, 15 June 1903 (TRP).
38 “You may possibly” Simon Wolf to TR, 3 July 1903 (TRP). Jew policemen was accepted usage in 1903. See in the same letter: “not a Jew petition.”
39 It was a story TR, Autobiography, 191–92; Nancy Schoenberg, “Officer Otto Raphael: A Jewish Friend of Theodore Roosevelt,” American Jewish Archives 39.1 (1987). TR particularly admired “what I might call the Maccabee or fighting Jewish type.” TR, Letters, vol. 3, 78. See also Wagenknecht, Seven Worlds, 186, 230.
40 After an hour The Washington Post, 16 June 1903. Wolf, Presidents I Have Known, 198. A follow-up anecdote may be appended here: Later