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24 Nor did he “Uncle Ted … stole the show and the bridegroom and bridal party sank into an obnoxious oblivion.” Corinne Robinson Alsop, unpublished autobiography, Alsop Papers (TRC), 55. See Blanche Wiesen Cook, Eleanor Roosevelt (New York, 1992), vol. 1, 166–67.
25 To that end EKR diary, 21 Jan. 1905 (TRC); Morris, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, 288.
26 THE PRESIDENT TOOK Washington Evening Star, 17 Mar. 1905; John Hay diary, 18 Mar. 1905 (JH).
27 Morocco had suddenly For the immediate background to the Moroccan crisis of spring 1905, see Beale, Theodore Roosevelt, 355–59, and Larsen, “Theodore Roosevelt and the Moroccan Crisis,” 95–107.
28 Kaiser Wilhelm II John Hay diary, 7 Mar. 1905 (JH).
29 (as Mr. Perdicaris) See above, p. 324.
30 If the President Beale, Theodore Roosevelt, 275.
31 and gain immensely Ibid., 356; John Keiger, France and the Origins of the First World War (New York, 1981), 21.
Germany’s sense of exclusion in North Africa derived from the Anglo-French treaty of 8 Apr. 1904, which gave the French control of Morocco in exchange for British control of Egypt.
32 Great Britain, in turn TR, Letters, vol. 4, 1162.
33 “The Kaiser has” Ibid., 1150.
34 Von Sternburg was Ibid., 1155.
35 April came with Tyler Dennett, Roosevelt and the Russo-Japanese War (New York, 1925), 172–75.
36 a “worthy creature” TR, Letters, vol. 5, 242. Spring Rice was adjudged by his superiors to be too junior, and too likely to be manipulated by TR.
37 who to his Sir Michael Herbert had died prematurely on 30 Sept. 1904.
38 “I wish the Japs” TR, Letters, vol. 4, 1150.
39 Rather than leave Ibid.; The New York Times, 4 Apr. 1905.
40 “I am not” TR, Letters, vol. 4, 1156.
41 Rumors proliferated Dunn, From Harrison to Harding, vol. 1, 415; TR, Letters, vol. 4, 717.
42 The President stayed
Chronological Note: TR’s five-week hunting vacation in Oklahoma (wolves) and Colorado (bears) was preceded by a week’s political tour of Kentucky, the Indian Territory, and Texas, where he attended a Rough Riders reunion. He published accounts of both his hunts in Scribner’s Magazine, Oct. and Nov. 1905, and subsequently included them in Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter (“Wolf-Coursing” and “A Colorado Bear Hunt”). See TR, Works, vol. 3.
43 THE FIRST IMPORTANT Beale, Theodore Roosevelt, 283; Dennett, Roosevelt, 176.
44 Tokyo did not Dennett, Roosevelt, 176.
45 Roosevelt wired back Ibid., 178.
46 While awaiting TR, Letters, vol. 4, 1161–62.
47 France certainly was Keiger, France and the Origins of the First World War, 21.
48 and Britain, in TR, Letters, vol. 4, 1162.
49 “I do not care” Ibid.
50 One little dog TR, Works, vol. 3, 67.
51 (“One run was”) Kerr, Bully Father, 168. John “Jack” Abernathy was the sort of man TR admired. “A really wonderful fellow, catching the wolves alive by thrusting his gloved hands down between their jaws so that they cannot bite. He caught one wolf alive, tied up this wolf, and then held it on the saddle, followed his dogs in a seven-mile run and helped kill another wolf. He has a pretty wife and five cunning children.”
52 Going without lunch TR, Works, vol. 3, 65. As a testament to TR’s overpowering physicality, ranging from his desire to kill to his palpable love of nature in all its forms, “A Colorado Bear Hunt” makes for enlightening reading.
53 On 24 April TR, Works, vol. 3, 82–83; Denver News, 25 Apr. 1905; Washington Evening Star, 26 May 1905; TR to Philip B. Stewart, 26 Apr. 1905 (TRP). “I notice the President has got two bears,” Ambassador Takahira remarked. “We would be satisfied with one!” Trani, Treaty of Portsmouth, 55.
54 Then he began TR to Philip B. Stewart, 26 Apr. 1905 (TRP).
55 Late that evening Benjamin J. Barnes to William Loeb, Jr., 25 Apr. 1905 (TRP).
56 “You are hereby” Dennett, Roosevelt, 179–80.
57 Taft added, in Ibid., 180. Henry W. Denison was Baron Komura’s official American adviser in Tokyo.
58 Loeb felt unable The following account is taken from an interview given by Loeb to the columnist “Bob Davis,” published