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14 a Special Message Davis, Released for Publication, 69–71, misdates Hughes’s speech as 30 Jan. 1908, but is otherwise a prime source for this typical Roosevelt publicity ploy.
15 much harsher language Frank B. Kellogg, one of TR’s more influential field advisers, wrote on 25 Jan. 1908 to warn him that the Special Message would be “a mistake,” in that his views were already well known and did not have to be so brutally repeated. Further, he believed that the Message would “tend to alienate … conservative businessmen and good Republicans” from TR’s candidate for the 1908 GOP presidential nomination, William H. Taft. Frank B. Kellogg Papers (LC).
16 As a result The New York Times, 1 Feb. 1908.
17 He demanded The complete text of TR’s Special Message is reprinted in TR, Letters, vol. 6, 1572–91.
Historical Note: George E. Mowry remarks that historians of the Progressive Era have frequently ascribed TR’s radicalization in 1910 and 1912 to the publication of Herbert Croly’s Promise of American Life in late 1909. “A glance at his messages and speeches of 1907 and 1908 would seem to argue that Roosevelt may have had as much influence on Croly as Croly had on him” (Era of Theodore Roosevelt, 222). Elting E. Morison further observes that these same two messages “proposed in some detail the basic national reforms achieved under Taft and Wilson.” TR, Letters, vol. 6, 922.
18 Roosevelt proudly Ibid., 1574–77.
19 Referring to himself Ibid., 1577–86.
20 “These new conditions” Ibid., 1588.
21 SUBSCRIBERS TO All the public comments on TR’s Special Message in the following paragraphs are taken from Current Literature, Mar. 1907.
22 “the President is” Mark De Wolfe Howe, James Ford Rhodes: An American Historian (New York, 1929), 195. See also Henry Cabot Lodge to TR, 19 Sept. 1907, and TR to Lodge, 21 Sept. 1907 (TRP).
23 “Of all your” Nicholas Murray Butler to TR, 4 Feb. 1908 (TRP).
24 “You regret” TR, Letters, vol. 6, 925.
25 ON 7 FEBRUARY William James in The American Magazine, Nov. 1907; Samuel Carter III, The Incredible Great White Fleet (New York, 1971), 54–55.
26 For twenty-two Wimmel, Theodore Roosevelt and the Great White Fleet, 228; Carter, Incredible Great White Fleet, 51–52.
27 Throughout 1907 Jessup, Elihu Root, vol. 2, 27–29; “Memorandum Respecting Japanese Immigration into Canada and the United States,” British Documents on Foreign Affairs, vol. 13, 160.
28 By 29 February Gould, Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, 262; Jessup, Elihu Root, vol. 2, 30. In May 1908, the Japanese monthly inflow was down to 900 from nearly 2,000 in May 1907. Bailey, Theodore Roosevelt, 279.
29 He also won Weaver, Senator, 131. Foraker observed that the five Democrats were prepared to find the soldiers guilty without even looking at the testimony.
30 The dissenting members Ibid.
31 So did the Ibid., 130.
32 Roosevelt’s other Gould, Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, 263–66.
33 Sounding rather TR, Letters, vol. 6, 1017–18.
34 “But, Mr. President” Jusserand, What Me Befell, 332. The following section is adapted from 332–36.
35 “Washington and Rochambeau” The midriver island is now Theodore Roosevelt Island, a national memorial to TR. Deep in its forested interior stands a statue modeled on the illustration on p. 141. Nan Netherton, “Delicate Beauty and Burly Majesty: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt Island,” t.s. (1984), 11 (TRB).
36 “We might meet” For TR’s version of this story, see Butt, Letters, 228–29.
37 On 12 May Wister, Roosevelt, 147; table plan in “Executive Mansion Social Functions,” RG 42, vol. 11 (NA). This beautifully compiled scrapbook series is a monument to the social and entertainment activities of the Roosevelt White House, 1901–1909 (hereafter “Social Functions”).
38 The President sat Some physical descriptions taken from the famous group photograph of the Governors’ Conference, 13 May 1908.
39 (in a severe sulk) Uncle Joe’s pique is mentioned in Butt, Letters,