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48 Washington, Dec. 9 Philadelphia Press, 10 Dec. 1903 (italics added).
49 Wellman said Ibid.
50 “He might wreck” Ibid.
51 “Mr. President, I” The Washington Post, 12 Dec. 1903.
52 He and Roosevelt stood Washington Evening Star, 11 Dec. 1903; The Washington Post, 12 Dec. 1903. The following dialogue is taken from the latter source. See also Moore, Roosevelt and the Old Guard, 87.
53 “I have sat” Gamaliel: in the New Testament, a legendary leader of the Sanhedrin and teacher.
54 Two days later New York Herald, 13 Dec. 1903; Moore, Roosevelt and the Old Guard, 85. See also The New York Times, 12 Dec. 1903, Public Opinion, 17 Dec. 1903, and “The Passing of the Hanna Boom,” Review of Reviews, Jan. 1904.
55 ON 14 DECEMBER The Washington Post, 16 Dec. 1903; New York Press, 17 Dec. 1903; Eitler, “Philander Chase Knox,” 76–80. A veteran court reporter called it “the strongest address made before the Supreme Court for years.” W. W. Jermane in Minneapolis Journal, 16 Dec. 1903. See also Barry, Forty Years, 250, for the reactions of Court members.
56 All the world’s Britain announced on 24 Dec., Japan on 28 Dec. 1903. By the end of Feb. 1904, Panama was universally recognized except by Colombia.
57 G. P. Putnam’s Sons TR to George Haven Putnam, 26 Nov. and 21 Dec. 1903 (TRP). According to the Economic History Services website (www.eh.net/hmit), thirty thousand dollars in 1903 was the equivalent of about $580,000 today. TR’s two windfalls therefore netted him the modern equivalent of well over one million dollars. He remained, however, the least avaricious of men. On 5 Dec., he wrote Douglas Robinson that he thought James K. Gracie had been too generous to him, and volunteered to turn over one third of his legacy to a female relative with four children (TRP).
58 The Works of Theodore Roosevelt This edition, known as the “Executive Edition,” was not the first, and by no means the last. It superseded no fewer than six collections, beginning with the “Sagamore Series” in 1900. Other editions published in 1901, 1902, and 1903 varied in length and quality. The Executive Edition, which grew by two additional volumes every two years, eventually totaled twenty volumes. It was itself superseded by the “Elkhorn Edition” of 1906, which grew, by 1920, to twenty-eight volumes. Other editions continued to appear throughout TR’s lifetime. The Works of Theodore Roosevelt achieved definitive, if rather confusing, form in 1926, when two differently arranged collections appeared: the utilitarian “National Edition” (twenty volumes) and the luxury “Memorial Edition” (twenty-four volumes). The latter set is cited in this book. For a complete Works bibliography, see the Memorial Edition, vol. 2, 559–63.
59 Better than money New York Herald, 13 Dec. 1903; Robinson, My Brother, 217.
60 THE SEVENTEENTH OF December Washington Evening Star, 17 Dec. 1903.
CHAPTER 20: INTRIGUE AND STRIVING AND CHANGE
1 Whin he does Dunne, Observations by Mr. Dooley, 225.
2 “I was stuffed” Adams, Letters, vol. 5, 538–39. The following day Adams was invited to another White House party. He sent his regrets, and stayed in bed “with a pound or two of sufonal.” Ibid.
Note: Adams’s letters are often written in a tone of mock suffering, for humorous effect. Nor was he beyond duplicity. He frequently caricatured men like TR and Henry Cabot Lodge in private, while praising them in public. See his contrasting account of this evening in The Education of Henry Adams, 464.
3 “I am glad” Dawes, Journal of the McKinley Years, 364.
4 ON THE AFTERNOON Except where otherwise indicated, the following paragraphs are based on the William H. Taft scrapbooks in WHT; William H. Taft to Mrs. Taft, 1 Feb. 1904 (WHT); Taft interviewed by Kate Carew in New York World, 28 Feb. 1904. Physical descriptions are from the Carew interview, and also from White, Masks in a Pageant, 329–30, and