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18 ROOSEVELT WAS FULL TR, Letters, vol. 4, 852, 858; Lodge, Selections, vol. 2, 89.
19 Professionals in both Wheaton, “Genius and the Jurist,” 351–52. See, e.g., New York Evening Post, 11 July 1904. “For the first time, they [the Republicans] are afraid, and their fear is real.” Des Portes to Théophile Delcassé, 13 July 1904 (JJ).
20 Time would tell Some strategists were even talking of a delay until October. See, e.g., Albert J. Beveridge to TR, 9 Aug. 1904 (AJB).
21 Roosevelt had scheduled Washington Evening Star, 2 July 1904; The Washington Post, 3 July 1904.
22 ON 27 JULY Except where otherwise indicated, the following account of TR’s notification ceremony is based mainly on reports in The New York Times, New York Sun, New York World, and New York Herald, 28 July 1904.
23 “That’s perfectly true” Cannon had just praised the Roosevelt Administration’s actions in Panama.
24 used the word power John Hay diary, 13 July 1904 (JH). “Mr. Knox [also] thought it was touched with demagogy in its original form,” TR cheerfully informed George Cortelyou. “Root agreed with Knox” (8 June 1904 [GBC]). His edited speech appears in Presidential Addresses and State Papers, vol. 3, 36–47.
25 She laughed with The New York Times and New York World, 28 July 1904. The adjective phosphorescent is Marguerite Cassini’s in Never a Dull Moment, 166.
26 Something flickered The New York Times, 28 July 1904.
27 Roosevelt paid no New York World, 28 July 1904; Alice Roosevelt diary, 21 June, 17 and 27 May (“I pray God to grant unto me a fortune”), and 9 and 13 June, 1903; 27 July 1904 (ARL). Alice called her snake “Emily Spinach.” For TR’s views on this pet, see below, pp. 692–93.
28 “When I come down” Ibid., 15 June 1903 (ARL).
29 ROOSEVELT’S THOUGHTFUL Group portrait of the GOP Notification Committee, Leslie’s Weekly, 11 Aug. 1904.
30 Odell had proved Richard L. McCormick, From Realignment to Reform: Political Change in New York State, 1893–1910 (Ithaca, 1981), 166–89.
31 This brazen mixing Wheaton, “Genius and the Jurist,” 475; Gould, Reform and Regulation, 47; see also McCormick, From Realignment to Reform, 220–22.
32 It was vital McCormick, From Realignment to Reform, 175; Jessup, Elihu Root, vol. 1, 423.
33 “The Republicans of” TR, Letters, vol. 4, 677.
34 Root politely declined Jessup, Elihu Root, vol. 1, 425–27.
35 ON THE DAY The Washington Post and Washington Times, 29 July 1904; John Hay to Henry White, 2 July 1904 (TD).
36 Washington sweltered Washington Evening Star, 10 Aug. and passim 1904; Hay, Letters, vol. 3, 305; John Hay to Henry White, 2 July 1904 (TD); contemporary photographs in LC.
37 Roosevelt decided TR, Letters, vol. 4, 880.
38 “sweetest of all” Morris, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, 351.
39 “Edith and I” Letters from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt Cowles, 260–61.
40 In New York Wheaton, “Genius and the Jurist,” 357–58; Crosson, “James S. Clarkson.”
41 A female reporter Kate Carew, New York World, 12 Aug. 1904.
42 Also unlike Hanna Wheaton, “Genius and the Jurist,” 358; Dawes, Journal of the McKinley Years, 383. By the end of Aug., Dawes already noted “great savings” in all contract matters. “At last we have a Committee whose work is untainted by fraud of any kind.”
43 The Senator softened Dawes, Journal of the McKinley Years, 378.
44 Roosevelt tried once TR, Letters, vol. 4, 886–87; Bishop, Theodore Roosevelt, vol. 1, 325.
45 ROOSEVELT HAD LONG See Anne Venzon, “Gunboat Diplomacy in the Mediterranean,” Proceedings of the U.S. Naval Institute, supplement, Mar. 1985.
Chronological Note: On 27 Aug. 1903, John G. Leishman, United States Minister in Constantinople, had cabled the State Department with news of the assassination of an American diplomat in Beirut. The local government’s response was inadequate and unsatisfactory. TR immediately ordered three warships to Beirut. No sooner had he done so than another cable arrived, stating that the first telegram had contained an error; the diplomat had