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59 Before going to bed TR to Philip B. Stewart, 26 Apr. 1905 (TRP).
60 They treated Alexander Lambert to TR, 18 June 1905 (TRP).
61 “Am a good deal” TR, Letters, vol. 4, 1167–68.
62 Roosevelt spent Pierre de La Gorce, Histoire du Second Empire (Paris, 1899–1905); TR, Letters, vol. 4, 1179; Jusserand, What Me Befell, 277.
63 Roosevelt read TR, Letters, vol. 4, 1174.
64 “struck by certain” Ibid., 1269.
65 At least, though Ieronim Pavlovich Taburno, The Truth about the War (Kansas City, Mo., 1905).
66 WHAT NONE OF Jusserand, What Me Befell, 276; TR on 7 Jan. 1905, qu. in Murakata, “Theodore Roosevelt and William Sturgis Bigelow.” Bigelow, a wealthy Buddhist and connoisseur of Japanese art, was yet another member of TR’s secret du roi. It was he who interested the President in jujitsu.
67 Although Roosevelt had Tyler Dennett believed that had TR been in Washington on 25 April, he could have “hastened the peace by a month or six weeks.” Roosevelt, 182.
68 “in her stomach” TR, Works, vol. 3, 83.
69 his new ambassador “Few Ambassadors have gone to their posts with a letter so full of the mind of their ruler.” John Hay diary, 5 Jan. 1905 (JH). See also TR, Letters, vol. 4, 1134, for the President’s earlier attempts to influence the Russian government “privately and unofficially.” The adroit Meyer was to become the most valuable of all his diplomatic appointments. See Howe, George von Lengerke Meyer.
70 Meyer had managed Howe, George von Lengerke Meyer, 145–46.
71 The Tsarina’s problem Trani, Treaty of Portsmouth, 49–50; Gwynn, Letters and Friendships, vol. 1, 455, 465–68.
72 “Did you ever” TR, Letters, vol. 4, 1158.
73 “my own belief” Ibid., 1179.
74 “As we left ever” TR, Works, vol. 3, 91.
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1 Thim was th’ “Mr. Dooley” in The Washington Post, 12 Apr. 1903.
2 “Come hither” Wallace Irwin, “The Ballad of Grizzly Gulch,” in At the Sign of the Dollar (New York, 1905), 32.
3 But as he Ibid., 34.
4 (Santo Domingo would) See Gow, “How Did the Roosevelt Corollary?”
5 the better he could Note that he does not mention a word of his involvement even to Elihu Root on 13 May. TR, Letters, vol. 4, 1171–72. 387 So backward Irwin, “Ballad of Grizzly Gulch,” 35.
6 THE BATTLE OF Tsu Kenneth Wimmel, Theodore Roosevelt and the Great White Fleet: American Sea Power Comes of Age (Dulles, Va., 1998), 192.
7 “a civilized” See p. 228.
8 Although he confessed TR, Letters, vol. 4, 1178.
9 His cousin Wilhelm Trani, Treaty of Portsmouth, 47.
10 Ambassador Cassini Jusserand, What Me Befell, 300; TR, Letters, vol. 4, 1232.
11 But France, right Larsen, “Theodore Roosevelt and the Moroccan Crisis,” 122–24. TR had changed his mind about staying aloof from the Moroccan squabble because he saw in it the possibility of “a world conflagration.”
12 So the diplomatic
Chronological Note: On 2 June 1905, TR initiated what Oscar Kraines calls “the first comprehensive inquiry” into federal administration (Oscar Kraines, “The President Versus Congress: The Keep Commission, 1905–1909,” Western Political Quarterly 23.1 [1970]). On his own initiative, and without Congressional direction or confirmation, TR appointed a committee for the purpose of investigating business methods in all federal offices, with an eye toward improving efficiency and cutting costs. Headed by Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Charles H. Keep, and composed of James Garfield, Gifford Pinchot, Lawrence Murray, and Frank Hitchcock, the commission first investigated two government-agency scandals (an area technically outside their mandated province) before getting down to the stated task. Keep and his colleagues uncovered copious examples of waste and ineffective methods, and came up with some truly innovative ideas and solutions (many originated by TR himself). The Keep Commission was the first to recommend the idea of a retirement program for federal employees;