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57 “As far as I” Joseph Bucklin Bishop to TR, 15 Mar. 1904 (TRP).
58 BY 1 APRIL John Hay diary, 19 Mar. 1904 (JH); EKR to Cecil Spring Rice, 7 Feb. 1904 (CSR); Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, From Pinafores to Politics (New York, 1923), 83; Gould, Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, 134.
59 “He is a very” William H. Taft to Mrs. Taft, 18 Mar. 1904 (WHT).
60 Even so, Roosevelt’s Adams, Letters, vol. 5, 554; Literary Digest, 2 Apr. 1904; TR, Letters, vol. 4, 749.
61 It was virtually Literary Digest, 2 Jan. 1904. Santo Domingo and Dominican Republic were interchangeable terms in the Roosevelt Era.
62 “Your unlimited power” Wilhelm II to TR, 1 Feb. 1904 (TRP).
63 The Kaiser could Review of Reviews, Mar. 1902; Julius W. Pratt, Challenge and Rejection: The United States and World Leadership, 1900–1921 (New York, 1967), 29–30.
Historical Note: The current situation was complicated by the fact that on 1 Feb. Santo Domingo insurgents fired upon the United States cruiser Yankee, killing one Marine. On 5 Feb., TR ordered Rear Admiral Wise to proceed to Santo Domingo with cruisers of the Atlantic Squadron and protect United States citizens and property (Review of Reviews, Mar. 1904). There is no direct evidence that the United States feared European interference (Italy, Britain, and Belgium were owed money as well as Germany), but the circumstantial evidence, as with the Venezuelan crisis of 1902–1903, is suggestive. At the time of the German warship scare, the State Department was under intense pressure from the Navy Department to allow the Mediterranean Squadron to take part in “maneuvers” in the Caribbean (William N. Still, American Sea Power in the Old World: The United States Navy in Europe and Near Eastern Waters, 1815–1917 [Westport, Conn., 1980], 163–64). Looking back on the crisis afterward, Elihu Root said, “We went into Santo Domingo for the sole purpose of keeping Germany from taking it” (interview, 10 Nov. 1930 [PCJ]). Ironically, Santo Domingo’s financial mess had been largely caused by an American investment firm, the Santo Domingo Investment Company, in 1903. See Douglas R. Gow, “How Did the Roosevelt Corollary Become Linked to the Dominican Republic?” Mid-America 58 (1976).
64 “I have about” TR, Letters, vol. 4, 734. TR was so pleased with this image he repeated it viva voce to his Cabinet—only then the boa constrictor was an anaconda. John Hay diary, 18 Mar. 1904 (JH).
65 TWO MONTHS AFTER TR, Letters, vol. 4, 772; Jessup, Elihu Root, vol. 1, 419; Gould, Reform and Regulation, 44; TR, Letters, vol. 7, 615; James O. Wheaton, “The Genius and the Jurist: The Presidential Campaign of 1904” (Ph.D. diss., Stanford University, 1964), 583; TR, Letters, vol. 4, 785–86.
66 In the meantime The Washington Post, 3 Mar. 1904; TR, introduction to Francis Curtis, History of the Republican Party (New York, 1904); TR, Letters, vol. 4, 771, 773; TR, Presidential Addresses and State Papers, vol. 3, 5–8.
67 Cleveland fumed with Allan Nevins, Grover Cleveland (New York, 1932), 750–51. The President, unabashed, was still circulating Cleveland’s letter in the fall. See, e.g., TR to C. Riggs, editor of the New York Sun, 2 Sept. 1904 (TRP).
68 “Theodore thinks of” Adams, Letters, vol. 5, 570.
69 Old Guard Republicans James S. Clarkson to William Loeb, 5 Apr. 1904.
70 Reluctantly, in view Kerr, Bully Father, 149. Marguerite Cassini recalled that her father, Speck von Sternburg, and Jules Jusserand were “very much worried” by the comings and goings of mysterious Japanese visitors to the White House. Cassini, Never a Dull Moment, 198.
71 HIS SIGNATURE FINGERS William A. Day and Charles W. Russell to Philander Knox, 26 and 28 Apr. 1904 (PCK). The extraordinary series of letters and telegrams in Knox’s papers concerning the canal-rights transfer counters the doubt expressed by revisionist historians (e.g., Henry Pringle) as to whether the Roosevelt Administration was conscientious in obtaining