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17 “I haven’t” TR, Letters, vol. 5, 25.
18 Just how “far” Pringle, Theodore Roosevelt, 359–65, shows that TR gave advance notice of his legislative intentions to the “short” Congress of 1904–1905, both in his Fourth Annual Message and in a remarkable speech to the Union Club of Philadelphia on 30 January 1905. Neither utterance had any lasting effect, due to the distraction of the Inauguration and the quick death of the Fifty-eighth Congress.
19 On 30 September Cheney, Personal Memoirs, 122–23.
20 The President approached New York Sun, 1 Oct. 1905.
21 Two articles of his Scribner’s, Oct. and Nov. 1905.
22 It supplemented TR, Works, vol. 24, 559–62. TR’s income from his writings in 1905 was $18,487, about $341,000 in modern dollars. Checks came from five different publishers (TRP, passim).
23 livre broché A small, sewn paperback. Léon Bazalgette, Théodore Roosevelt (Paris, 1905). Copy in TRB.
24 Bazalgette admitted Ibid., 25–26. All translations are by the author, who has occasionally repunctuated Bazalgette’s ornate sentences for contemporary clarity.
25 Perhaps the most Ibid., 39, citing in particular the famous passage about the moonlit mockingbird in chap. 4 of The Wilderness Hunter. See TR, Works, vol. 2, 62–63.
26 “He was able” Bazalgette, Théodore Roosevelt, 29.
27 “the supreme political” Ibid., 5.
28 “that most dangerous” Morris, Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, 193.
29 “The tone is resolute” Bazalgette, Théodore Roosevelt, 21.
30 “Such is the magnetism” Ibid., 24.
31 “When, for example” “Lorsque l’outrance qui est dans sa nature lui fait coté le spread-eaglism.” Ibid.
32 “He has only one” Ibid., 25.
33 an attribute Bazalgette Another attribute that escaped Bazalgette was TR’s extraordinary political caution. See Marks, Velvet on Iron, 144–47.
34 the worst-beaten candidate The phrase is Henry Pringle’s, as is much of the political information in this paragraph. Pringle, Theodore Roosevelt, 367.
35 Having found Ibid., 360–61; Gould, Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, 147–52. See John M. Blum, “Theodore Roosevelt and the Legislative Process: Tariff Revision and Railroad Regulation, 1904–1906,” in TR, Letters, vol. 4, 1333–42.
36 The most he John M. Blum, “Theodore Roosevelt and the Hepburn Act: Toward an Orderly System of Control,” in TR, Letters, vol. 6, 1560.
37 Another law he Charles C. Goetsch, Essays on Simeon E. Baldwin (West Hartford, Conn., 1981), 82–185; TR, Works, vol. 17, 253–54.
38 That call had Gould, Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, 158; TR, Letters, vol. 5, 34. The nation’s biggest news story in the fall of 1905 was an investigation by New York State authorities into attempts by E. H. Harriman and other financiers to speculate with the Equitable Life Assurance Company’s giant pool of cash. See Sullivan, Our Times, vol. 3, chap. 3.
39 ONE OF THE FIRST TR, Works, vol. 3, xxix–xxx. Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter contained much rewriting but only one essay previously unpublished, “At Home.” This charming piece was written in the summer of 1905, no doubt as a respite from the strains of peacemaking. Unquotable out of context, its deeply disturbing last line communicates the strange blend of love and cruelty with which hunters “kill the thing they love.” See Wood, Roosevelt As We Knew Him, 363–64.
40 “I am hurt” TR, Letters, vol. 5, 86.
41 “the real spirit” Ibid., 69.
42 Kermit had found TR, Letters to Kermit, 285; TR, Letters, vol. 5, 1303; Mezey, Poetry of E. A. Robinson, xxix–xxx. According to Robinson, TR cogently proffered the Custom House job in six words: “Good salary. Little work. Soft snap!” Ibid., 196.
43 In further generosity TR, Works, vol. 14, 360–64; Outlook, 12 Aug. 1905; Bazalgette,