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54 “I would like” TR, Letters, vol. 5, 176. TR’s desire for secrecy proved short-lived. See James Harvey Young, “The Pig That Fell into the Privy,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 59.4 (1985).
55 Roosevelt’s was a TR, Letters, vol. 5, 176.
56 Sinclair’s description Sinclair, Jungle [1906], 124.
57 squab stuffed Washington Evening Star, 18 Mar. 1906. The menu featured no beef or pork items.
58 “… the Man with” Qu. in Sullivan, Our Times, vol. 3, 94. Many sources mistakenly state that TR’s first “muckrake” speech took place on 27 Jan. 1906. On that earlier date, he spoke about the beginning of the construction on the Panama Canal. The dinner of 17 March was a special celebration hosted by Speaker Joseph Cannon.
59 Roosevelt’s subsequent Ibid.; Semonche, “Roosevelt’s ‘Muck-Rake Speech’ ”; Victor Murdock interview, 31 Mar. 1940 (HKB); Thompson, Party Leaders, 160. Thompson, who was present at the dinner, records that guests were so impressed that they urged TR to print his speech “as a public duty.”
60 Nor was it Semonche, “Roosevelt’s ‘Muck-Rake Speech’ ”; Baker, American Chronicle, 201–2; Sullivan, Our Times, vol. 3, 96.
61 THE LAST THING The following account is condensed from those in Beale, Theodore Roosevelt, 374–86, and Larsen, “Theodore Roosevelt and the Moroccan Crisis,” 167–210.
62 With some asperity Interview qu. in Jusserand, What Me Befell, 323.
63 Roosevelt repeated Ibid.; Jusserand to M. Bourgeois, Documents diplomatiques, series 2, vol. 9, 725.
64 Senator Knox had A superscript on William Loeb to Philander Knox, 3 Mar. 1906 (PCK), indicates that Knox was summoned to the White House from the Belasco Theater, where he had been attending a matinee, and offered Justice Brown’s seat. TR made clear that the Senator was his first choice. Knox declined (no reason given). For subsequent events, see Paul T. Heffron, “Theodore Roosevelt and the Appointment of Mr. Justice Moody,” Vanderbilt Law Review 18.2 (1965) (hereafter Heffron, “Mr. Justice Moody”).
65 Unwilling as TR, Letters, vol. 5, 242.
66 “If the conference” TR to Wilhelm II, 2 Mar. 1906 (TRP).
67 “paltry and unworthy” Beale, Theodore Roosevelt, 383. The Kaiser’s more thoughtful aides agreed with TR and Root. Chief of Staff Helmuth von Moltke later described the Algeciras Conference as an affair Germans had to “slink out of … with our tail between our legs.” Isolated at the end, Germany decided never again to trust its fortunes to international conferences. Fischer, Germany’s Aims in the First World War, 22.
68 “Communicate to” Qu. in Beale, Theodore Roosevelt, 384–85. TR was amused by the elaborate flatteries he and Wilhelm II exchanged during the conference. “How could anyone with even a glimmer of humor swallow such stuff?” he said to his English friend Arthur Lee. “We might as well have been addressing each other from behind ancient Greek masks. But Speck tells me the Kaiser was delighted with it all” (Lee, Good Innings, vol. 1, 335). For TR’s own account of the Moroccan affair, see TR, Letters, vol. 5, 230–51.
69 THE ARTICLE IN Phillips, Treason, chap. 2; LaFollette’s Autobiography, 179; British Documents on Foreign Affairs, vol. 12, 20.
70 One of the weakest The following account is taken from LaFollette’s Autobiography, 174–75.
71 A small group Elihu Root interview, 30 Sept. 1930 (PCJ); Gould, Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, 160–61; Sullivan, Our Times, vol. 3, 233–34.
72 The President was Gould, Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, 161; Simkins, Pitchfork Ben Tillman, 416–17; Sullivan, Our Times, vol. 3, 233–34; TR, Works (National Edition), vol. 13, 153.
73 Somebody suggested It was Henry Beach Needham, one of TR’s tame reporters. Sullivan, Our Times, vol. 3, 250–53. See also TR, Letters, vol. 5, 273–75.
74 Tillman knew Sullivan, Our Times, vol. 3, 254–55; William E. Chandler to William Loeb, 11 Apr. 1906 (TRP).
75 BUNYAN’S NOISOME Baker, American Chronicle, 201; see 202–3 for Baker’s attempt to head off TR’s repetition of the