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26 “a comprehensive plan” M. Nelson McGeary, Gifford Pinchot: Forester-Politician (Princeton, N.J., 1960), 94. See also Pinkett, Gifford Pinchot, 108ff., and Lacey, “Mysteries of Earth-Making,” 379–82.
27 By the time WJ McGee, ed., Proceedings of a Conference of Governors in the White House, May 13–15, 1908 (Washington, D.C., 1909), vi–vii (hereafter Governors’ Conference Proceedings). For TR’s own account of his Mississippi cruise, see TR, Letters to Kermit, 216ff.
28 A sense that TR to Archibald Roosevelt, 7 Oct. 1907 (fragment, TRB); Herbert Knox Smith, “Roosevelt’s Leadership,” address to Roosevelt Memorial Association, [n.d.] 1924, copy in TRB.
29 Roosevelt made his TR, Presidential Addresses, vol. 6, 1432–33.
30 “There is an” Ibid., 1431.
31 These implosions The Washington Post, 16 Oct. 1907.
32 “a simultaneous deficiency” British Documents on Foreign Affairs, 347.
33 “I can’t go on” Pringle, Theodore Roosevelt, 438.
34 “Do I look?” Wood, Roosevelt As We Knew Him, 165. In 1918, shortly before his death, TR admitted that his only real regret was his misjudgment of the panic of 1907. He had acted “without a clear knowledge of business affairs.” Jack Cooper interview, Oct. 1919 (TRB).
35 By now, most Strouse, Morgan, 578.
36 The President was Wood, Roosevelt As We Knew Him, 439. See also TR, Letters, vol. 5, 747–49.
37 ALTHOUGH A TOTAL Strouse, Morgan, 580–84.
38 Judge Gary said Watson, As I Knew Them, 69; Strouse, Morgan, 587–88; TR, Letters, vol. 5, 830–31. A congressional investigation in 1911 revealed that Gary and Frick may have taken advantage of TR’s fiscal naïveté when they protested their reluctance to acquire Moore & Schley (whose name they declined to reveal to him over breakfast). What they demonstrably got, along with an assurance of antitrust indemnity, was a bargain investment and a considerable enlargement of U.S. Steel’s presence in the South. Strouse, Morgan, 590.
39 Gary called Strouse, Morgan, 588.
40 ON 11 NOVEMBER TR, Letters, vol. 5, 838–39; Collier’s, 30 May 1908; press release file, 1908 (TRP).
41 WALL STREET’S currency Gould, Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, 248–49. 501 “I am absolutely” TR, Letters to Kermit, 224.
42 “There may be” TR, Works, vol. 17, 482.
43 Mr. E. H. Harriman List copy, 25 Dec. 1907, in GBC.
44 “If there is one thing” Barbara Tuchman, The Proud Tower (New York, 1966), 124.
45 “I am Commander-in-Chief” Wimmel, Great White Fleet, 223.
46 “I have not” The New York Times, 12 Dec. 1907.
47 MONDAY, 16 DECEMBER The following account is based on newspaper accounts in Presidential scrapbook (TRP), and on the detailed report of the British Embassy naval attaché in British Documents on Foreign Affairs, vol. 13, 6–7.
48 “By George!” Qu. in Wimmel, Theodore Roosevelt, xv.
49 When the presidential Washington Evening Star, 16 Dec. 1907.
50 Less audibly Robley D. Evans, Admiral’s Log (New York, 1910), 413–14. TR later claimed to have warned Evans that the Japanese threat was serious. “Admiral, I am very fond of you, but if you or your ships are surprised in port or at sea, don’t come back to me.” Leary, Talks with TR, 11–13.
CHAPTER 30: MORAL OVERSTRAIN
1 He’s a gr’-reat “Mr. Dooley” in Chicago Record-Herald, 20 Oct. 1907.
2 “THE REACTION AGAINST” Adams, Letters, vol. 6, 94.
3 “I find I” Leary, Talks with TR, 206.
4 he was insane Current Literature, Mar. 1907.
5 At the annual British Documents on Foreign Affairs, vol. 12, 246.
6 To Ambassador James Bryce James Bryce, “General Report on the United States for the Year 1907,” in ibid., 349. À outrance = to the knife.
7 “The oppression” Ibid.
8 Bryce left vague Ibid., 350.
9 He was definite Ibid.
10 The President’s initial TR, Letters, vol. 6, 103–4.
11 Moral Overstrain Written by George W. Alger (Boston, 1906).
12 Roosevelt had tried At the same time, it was noted that he had not yet given the Secretary of War a formal endorsement, so Taft remained chosen, but not blessed.
13 “Charles the Baptist” Sam McCune Lindsay,