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36 “Nobody likes him” Butt, Letters, 336. See this book, passim, for copious anecdotes of the last days of TR’s Presidency.
37 ARCHIE BUTT was Ibid., 278, 297, 281.
38 One legislative request TR, Letters, vol. 6, 1248; Beach, United States Navy, 423–26; White, Autobiography, 404; Sprout, Rise of American Naval Power, 272–73.
39 “I do not believe” Butt, Letters, 314.
40 “They little realize” Ibid.
41 “Why, Mother” Ibid., 327–28.
42 At Hampton Roads Washington Evening Star, 22 Feb. 1909; TR to Archibald B. Roosevelt, 23 Feb. 1909 (TRP); Butt, Letters, 353–54.
43 “That is the answer” Butt, Letters, 354.
EPILOGUE: 4 MARCH 1909
1 “It will be” The New York Times, 5 Mar. 1909. Davis, Released for Publication, 150–57.
2 His Inauguration was Except where otherwise indicated, this account of TR’s departure from Washington is based on reporting in the Washington Times and Washington Evening Star, 4 Mar. 1909, plus The New York Times and The Washington Post, 5 Mar. 1909. See also Davis, Released for Publication, 150–55.
3 “I knew” The New York Times, 5 Mar. 1909.
4 “It isn’t” Butt, Letters, 381. Butt wrote afterward that he felt “about as depressed as I have ever felt in parting from any one in my life, save only my own mother.” Ibid.
5 OBSERVERS WERE Moore, Roosevelt and the Old Guard, 222; Anna Roosevelt Cowles to Corinne Robinson, 6 Mar. 1909 (TRC).
6 “There was not” Anna Roosevelt Cowles to Corrine Robinson, 6 Mar. 1909 (TRC).
7 did not show Baltimore Sun, 5 Mar. 1909.
8 constantly bubbling Gifford Pinchot called TR “on the whole, the happiest man I ever knew.” Roosevelt House Bulletin 1 (1924): 3.
9 Acton’s famous dictum “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Lord Acton to Bishop Mandell Creighton, 5 Apr. 1887.
10 “a very symbol” Harper’s Weekly, 6 Oct. 1906.
11 “Roosevelt, more than” Adams, Education of Henry Adams, 417.
12 Uncounted men For the recollection of one such child, see W. Preble Jones, memo, 24 Nov. 1924 (TRB).
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
Unless otherwise credited, all images are from the Theodore Roosevelt Collection, Harvard College Library, Cambridge, Mass.
Frontispiece Theodore Roosevelt by Edward S. Curtis, 1904. The National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
prl.1 Roosevelt’s journey to the Presidency, 14–16 September. Map by the author.
prl.2 The Wilcox Mansion, Buffalo [now Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site], September 1901. Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society.
1.1 Theodore Roosevelt walks to work, 20 September 1901.
2.1 Booker T. Washington, 1901. The Schomburg Collection, New York Public Library.
3.1 Philander Chase Knox, ca. 1901.
5.1 Father and daughter at the launching of the Kaiser’s yacht, 25 February 1902.
6.1 Independent Cuba raises her flag, 20 May 1902. Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site, New York.
7.1 Graduation ceremony at United States Naval Academy, 1902. The Library of Congress.
7.2 Theodore Roosevelt’s White House in summer. Collection of Alice Sturm.
8.1 Quentin Roosevelt in the daisy field at Sagamore Hill. Sagamore Hill National Historic Site.
8.2 Elihu Root as Secretary of War. The Library of Congress.
9.1 Roosevelt during his New England tour, 1902.
10.1 John Mitchell as president of United Mine Workers, ca. 1902.
11.1 The temporary White House, no. 22 Jackson Place, 1902.
13.1 Theodore Roosevelt’s White House in winter.
14.1 Jules Jusserand, anonymous sketch. Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site, New York.
15.1 The President on his cross-country tour, 1903.
15.2 Roosevelt at Glacier Point, Yosemite, May 1903. Sagamore Hill National Historic Site.
16.1 View of the renovated White House, ca. 1903. Author’s Collection.
16.2 Secretary of State John Hay, 1904. Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site, New York.
17.1 The