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10 The Abbotts proudly Abbott, Impressions of Theodore Roosevelt, 14.
11 She thought Mr. Butt, Letters, 322–23.
12 MID-NOVEMBER TR to Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., 16 Nov. 1908 (TRB).
13 French Revolutionary shouts “Honor to the unlucky brave!” and “To the lantern!” were mob calls, usually accompanying the stringing up of an aristocrat. Jusserand, What Me Befell, 337.
14 became oddly silent Butt, Letters, 175.
15 “Concentrated power” TR, Works, vol. 17, 586.
16 The only really new Ibid., 601.
Historical Note: The phrase deep and brilliant is that of Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo, who in 1931 stated that this section of TR’s 1908 Message “vindicates the title of Theodore Roosevelt to a place in the history of the jurisprudence of this country.” Quoting from his own book The Nature of the Judicial Process (New Haven, 1921), Cardozo commended TR’s profound “intuitions and perceptions,” and held that contemporary critics who accused the President of “ignorance … of the nature of the judicial process” were themselves ignorant of the way judges thought. “Pascal’s spirit of self-search and self-reproach” was not incompatible with self-doubt, but no honest judge could deny the role of self in every decision. “All these inward questionings are born of the hope and desire to transcend the limitations which hedge our human nature. Roosevelt, who knew men, had no illusions on this score.” Roosevelt Medal Acceptance Speech, 1931, transcript in TRB.
17 “did not themselves” TR, Works, vol. 17, 621.
18 PRESIDENT-ELECT TAFT Anderson, William Howard Taft, 114–15. If the reporters could have read some of Taft’s private mail at this time, they might have been more concerned about his readiness for office. He confessed to a friend that questions of appointments and tariff policy left him feeling “just a bit like a fish out of water.” But “my wife is the politician and she will be able to meet all these issues.” Qu. in Harbaugh, Life and Times, 432.
19 “He is going” Butt, Letters, 232–33.
20 Butt certainly could Ibid., 233.
21 The lights were Presidential scrapbook (TRP).
22 Roosevelt and Taft Ibid. The “articles” in question were dispatched, respectively, to magazines named Scribbler’s and Lookout.
23 As so often Butt, Letters, 205–7, 245–46; Watson, As I Knew Them, 128; Longworth, Crowded Hours, 158.
24 The President’s annual Butt, Letters, 251.
25 To the President Ibid., 253.
26 “I don’t feel” Ibid.
27 ALL THE ROOSEVELTS The following description is taken from ibid., 254–56, with minor details from Presidential scrapbook (TRP).
28 No sooner had Butt, Letters, 257–59; The Washington Post, 29 Dec. 1908.
29 Time was when Longworth, Crowded Hours, 137–38; Butt, Letters, 258.
30 “MR. SPEAKER” Willard B. Gatewood, Jr., “The Secret Service Controversy,” in his Theodore Roosevelt and the Art of Controversy, 237, misdated this call as occurring on 8 Jan. See Congressional Record, 60 Cong., Sess. 2, 1909, vol. 43, 458–62; also TR, Works, vol. 17, 620; The New York Times, 17 Dec. 1908.
31 So far, the Longworth, Crowded Hours, 160; Harbaugh, Life and Times, 344.
Historical Note: Harbaugh notes that this confrontation “served mightily to hasten” the basic swap of political philosophy between the Republican and Democratic parties in the twentieth century. TR himself accused the congressional GOP leadership of hiding behind states’ rights in order to protect interstate corporations, while the Democrats, who had formerly made a shibboleth of states’ rights, began to align themselves behind the President. “By the middle of the century the reversal would be relatively complete: the majority of Democrats in Congress would be wedded to the centralized welfare state; all but a small minority of Republicans would be opposed or unsympathetic to it.”
32 Cannon sat now Gatewood, Theodore Roosevelt and the Art of Controversy, 237; Harbaugh, Life and Times, 344–45.
33 There was some The Atlanta Constitution, 11 Jan. 1909, qu. in Gatewood, “Secret Service,” 238.
34 Its chief, John Ibid., 240–42.
35 The Secret Service’s Ibid., 243–45, 237. When the