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28 Morgan, no less Dawes, Journal of the McKinley Years, 362; Hamilton Fish to TR, 21 Nov. 1903 (TRP); Matthew Quay to TR, 26 Oct. 1903 (TRP); Sullivan, Our Times, vol. 1, 598; E. H. Crowder to TR, 14 Oct. 1903; and W. A. Wadsworth to TR, 10 Dec. 1903 (TRP); New York Evening Post, 10 Dec. 1903; Rhodes, McKinley and Roosevelt, 281; Mayer, Republican Party, 284.
29 When the Senator Mrs. Hanna, interviewed by J. B. Morrow, 1 Nov. 1905 (MHM).
30 “You can say” New York World, ca. 27 Nov. 1903, in Presidential scrapbook (TRP).
31 Roosevelt wished Review of Reviews, Jan. 1903; Mark Hanna to George Perkins, 7 Dec. 1903 (GWP). Hagedorn, Leonard Wood, vol. 2, 378–79.
32 In a last-minute White House diary, 4 Dec. 1903 (TRP); TR, Letters, vol. 3, 664; Mark Hanna to TR, 5 Dec. 1903 (TRP); Washington Evening Star, 5 Dec. 1903; Washington Times, 6 Dec. 1903; Presidential scrapbook (TRP).
33 Hoar began to Shelby M. Cullom, Fifty Years of Public Service (Chicago, 1911), 213. Senator Cullom was an eyewitness to this interview.
34 “I think,” Philander Knox qu. by TR in Schoonover, “Max Farrand’s Memorandum.” See also Lawrence F. Abbott, Impressions of Theodore Roosevelt (New York, 1919), 139; Jessup, Elihu Root, vol. 1, 414. In a speech draft ca. May 1914, Senator Knox expressed mature misgivings about TR’s action in Panama. He agreed with Root that the United States was treaty-bound to be “passive” in any domestic revolution in Colombia, and “active” in maintaining Isthmian transit. But the fact remained that by behaving so in 1903, “serious damage resulted to Colombia, and corresponding benefits accrued to us.” Quite apart from financial gains, the United States got “sovereignty and jurisdiction over a 10-mile zone in a dependent country as against a qualified right to occupy a 6-mile zone in an arrogant, if not unfriendly country.” The American government therefore had a “moral” right to compensate Colombia “not for what she lost but what we gained.” Acknowledging TR’s famous bluster of 23 Mar. 1911, Knox agreed that “The fact is we practically [sic] took Panama. We did not take it from Colombia, we took it from the Panamans, and this is the only sense in which that statement is true” (PCK).
35 Both men rallied Opinion copy, 1903 (PCK); Elihu Root interviewed by Philadelphia Press, 2 Dec. 1903; New York Herald, 6 Dec. 1903; Washington Times, 7 Dec. 1903; Kelly Miller, “Roosevelt and the Negro” (pamphlet, ca. 1907, in Pratt Collection [TRB]), 8.
36 “Whenever I see” See Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers, chap. 30.
37 I AM ENABLED TR, Works, vol. 15, 235. See DuVal, Cadiz to Cathay, 386–95, and Bunau-Varilla, Panama, 387–408, for an account of the treaty’s rapid, if reluctant, ratification by the Panamanian junta.
38 He reviewed United States TR, Works, vol. 15, 241–43.
39 For more than half Ibid., vol. 13, 697.
40 “Yes, and the” Ibid., 698.
41 The President proceeded TR, Presidential Addresses and State Papers, vol. 2, 700–704.
42 “Under such circumstances” Ibid., 706–7.
43 “I don’t know” The New York Times, 8 Dec. 1903.
44 “For the first time” Ibid., 10 Dec. 1903.
45 It is the hour See TR to Benjamin I. Wheeler, 8 Dec. 1903 (TRP). “When the chance does come,” TR had said of opportunity in 1899, “only the great man can see it instantly and use it aright.” TR, Works, vol. 13, 420.
46 “In this Panama” TR, Letters, vol. 3, 652, 662–63.
47 He kept such Charles W. Dick, interviewed by J. B. Morrow, 10 Feb. 1906 (MHM); Croly, Marcus Alonzo Hanna, 435. For an example of the sort of alarming advisories TR was getting at this time, see W. A. Wadsworth’s letter to him of 1 Dec. 1903: “Things do not look just right.… Some of your political ‘friends’ in New York … are working like beavers [to ensure]