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40 Bryan’s presence “Conference on the Conservation of Natural Resources at the White House, May 13–15, 1908,” memorandum account in “Social Functions.”
41 When wood and water Michael Lacey notes that the Governors’ Conference was not only the first but the last occasion in American history when representatives of all branches of government “gathered together to discuss a set of common issues” (“Mysteries of Earth-Making,” 111). Cleveland died on 24 June.
42 Roosevelt, wanting “Social Functions.”
43 The dinner seating Ibid.; Edith Kermit Roosevelt Catering Agreement, 12 May 1908, in “Letters Received” file, in ibid.
44 “I confess to you” Butt, Letters, 7.
45 “A wonderful man” Ibid., 91.
46 AT ELEVEN O’CLOCK Governors’ Conference Proceedings, xix–xxxi.
47 The “Syllabus” Ibid., xiii–xvi.
48 “The Lord thy God” Ibid., 1 (Deuteronomy 8:7–9).
49 Roosevelt delivered The following quotations from TR’s address are taken from ibid., 3–13.
50 Conservation as a Copy in AC. TR’s speech is reprinted in TR, Presidential Addresses and State Papers, vol. 7, 1738–53.
51 “the State as quasi sovereign” See Hudson County Water Co. v. McCarter, 209 U.S. 349 (1908).
52 HE STAYED WITH Governors’ Conference Proceedings, 14.
53 The conference broke The Washington Post, 16 May 1908; Governors’ Conference Proceedings, 192–94.
54 THUS EMPOWERED Lacey, “Mysteries of Earth-Making,” 391–92; TR, Letters, vol. 6, 1065ff.
55 Americans began to be The following survey of TR’s conservation accomplishments through May 1908 is based on John Allen Gable, comp., “President Theodore Roosevelt’s Record on Conservation,” Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal 10.3 (fall 1983). See also Cutright, Theodore Roosevelt, passim.
56 now that “Conservation” Michael J. Lacey flatly states, “The language and aims of Conservation were invented in the spring of 1908.” Lacey, “Mysteries of Earth-Making,” 440.
57 (“Is there any?”) Pringle, Theodore Roosevelt, 469.
58 And Roosevelt had By the time TR left office in 1909, his conservation record had indeed expanded to include 18 national monuments, 51 federal bird reservations and 4 national game preserves, and 150 national forests (increasing the total acreage he inherited by more than 400 percent). The last-mentioned area was equal to that of all the Atlantic states from Maine to Virginia combined, with the addition of West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Vermont. Gable, “President Theodore Roosevelt’s Record.”
59 “Any man who” TR, Letters, vol. 6, 1041.
60 Two West Virginia Ibid., 1039, 1045; Henry Adams to Mrs. Frederick Tams, 3 Apr. 1908 (JH).
61 Adams had to Henry Adams to Mrs. Frederick Tams, 3 Apr. 1908 (JH). Lodge’s fabled froideur, and total lack of interest in what anybody thought of him, had finally alienated Adams. “If I told Cabot that he is personally and physically loathsome to me … he would not understand what I meant.” Adams, Letters, vol. 5, 693.
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1 I don’t know “Mr. Dooley” in Chicago Record-Herald, 20 Oct. 1907.
2 THE FIRST DAY TR, Letters, vol. 6, 1044–45.
3 “Q,” as schoolmates For a classic memoir of Quentin Roosevelt, and an endearing boy’s-eye view of his father, see Earle Looker, The White House Gang (New York, 1929).
4 (“The Republican”) Ibid., 44–45.
5 The property office The following account of the Battle of the Guidon is taken from ibid., 92–94. While writing his memoir, Looker interviewed all surviving members of the gang, save Quentin.
6 (obsessive clock-watcher) Q’s dollar pocket-watch is a leitmotiv in Looker’s descriptions of gang activities. For TR’s own time consciousness, see the pseudonymous article by “K” (probably Finley Peter Dunne), “The Powers of a Strenuous President,” The American Magazine, Apr. 1908: “No railroad engineer runs more sharply on schedule than he. His watch comes out of his pocket, he cuts off an interview, or signs a paper, and turns instantly, according to his timetable, to the next engagement. If there is an interval anywhere left over he chinks in the time by reading a paragraph of history.”
7 “Too late!