Leadership

by Doris Kearns Goodwin

  “in a mood . . . their first love”: AL to James Berdan, Jan. 15, 1879, CW, 4:33–34.

  “No man knows . . . he has tried it”: Tarbell, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. 3, p. 188.

  “as an evil not . . . protection a necessity”: AL, “Address at Cooper Institute, New York City,” Feb. 27, 1860, CW, 3:535.

  “avoidance of extremes . . . never off its balance”: Chicago Daily Press and Tribune, May 16, 1860.

  “I am not in a position . . . of the vineyard?”: AL to Norman B. Judd, Feb. 9, 1960, CW, 3:517.

  “vote as a unit”: William Eldon Baringer, Lincoln’s Rise to Power (Boston: Little, Brown, 1937), p. 186.

  “most of them . . . political morality”: Whitney, Lincoln, the Citizen, p. 266.

  “the defeat of Seward . . . nomination of Lincoln”: Murat Halstead; William B. Hesseltine, ed., Three against Lincoln: Murat Halstead Reports the Caucuses of 1860 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1960), p. 159.

  “especial assistance”: AL to Salmon P. Chase, May 26, 1860, CW, 4:53.

  “chances were more . . . very slim”: AL to Anson G. Henry, July 4, 1860, CW, 4:82.

  “a hired laborer . . . any man’s son!”: AL, “Speech at New Haven, Conn.,” March 6, 1860, CW, 4:24.

  “a man of the people”: Jacob Bunn quoted in Paul M. Angle, ed., Abraham Lincoln by Some Men Who Knew Him (Chicago: Americana House, 1950), p. 108.

  “so thoroughly interwoven . . . become part of them”: Herndon and Weik, Herndon’s Life of Lincoln, p. 372.

  “man for a crisis”: AL, “Eulogy on Henry Clay,” July 6, 1852, CW, 2:129.

  CHAPTER SIX

  Theodore Roosevelt: “The light has gone out of my life”

  “There is a curse . . . Alice is dying too”: Putnam, Theodore Roosevelt, p. 386.

  “The light has gone out of my life”: TR, Private Diary, Feb. 14, 1884, TRP.

  “We spent three years . . . been lived out”: Feb. 16, 1884, ibid.

  “wholly unprecedented . . . annals”: TR, In Memory of My Darling Wife Alice Hathaway Roosevelt and of My Beloved Mother Martha Bulloch Roosevelt who died in the same house and on the same day on February 14, 1884 (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, n.d.), TRP.

  “in a dazed stunned state . . . he does or says”: Sewall, Bill Sewall’s Story of Theodore Roosevelt, p. 11.

  “peculiar” . . . long ministry: The Sun (New York), Feb. 17, 1884.

  “It was a grim . . . from working”: Sewall, Bill Sewall’s Story of Theodore Roosevelt, pp. 11–12.

  “I think I should . . . not employed”: TR to Carl Schurz, Feb. 21, 1884, LTR, 1:66.

  “a changed man . . . his own soul”: Hagedorn, Hunt, and Spinney, “Memo of Conversation at Dinner at the Harvard Club.”

  “We are now holding . . . the better I like it”: TR to ARC, March 26, 1884, quoted in Putnam, Theodore Roosevelt, p. 395.

  “the bitter and venomous hatred”: TR to Simon Dexter North, April 30, 1884, LTR, 1:66.

  “seemed to incarnate . . . brighter and better”: Undated speech, Charles Evans Hughes, Houghton Library, TRC.

  “Our defeat . . . mass of my party”: TR to ARC, June 8, 1884, LTR, 1:70.

  “I was at the birth . . . witness its death”: Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, p. 258.

  “hearty support”: NYT, quoted in Putnam, Theodore Roosevelt, p. 464.

  “by inheritance . . . Republican convention”: TR, interview in the Boston Herald, July 20, 1884, quoted in WTR, 14:40.

  “Theodore Beware . . . promising as you”: Boston Globe, June 11, 1884, quoted in Putnam, Theodore Roosevelt, p. 463.

  “I have very little . . . keep in politics”: TR to Simon North, April 30, 1884, LTR, 1:66.

  “I can not regret . . . part in the fray”: TR to HCL, Aug. 24, 1884, LTR, 1:80.

  “I think it will . . . back into politics”: TR to Bamie, Aug. 12, 1884, in Theodore Roosevelt, Letters from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt Cowles, 1870–1918 (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1924), p. 61.

  “I am going . . . I cannot tell”: Putnam, Theodore Roosevelt, p. 444.

  “No ranch or other hiding . . . man like Blaine”: Ibid., p. 468.

  “Punching cattle . . . avoid campaigning”: Hermann Hagedorn, Roosevelt in the Badlands (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1921), p. 165.

  “the most important educational asset”: Theodore Roosevelt, The New Nationalism (New York: Outlook, 1909), p. 106.

  “I would take . . . who lived nearest her”: TR, quoted by Albert B. Fall, in Frederick S. Wood, Roosevelt as We Knew Him (Philadelphia: John C. Winston, 1927), p. 12.

  trust them with $40,000 . . . a thousand head of cattle: Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, pp. 209–10.

  “a share of anything”: Sewall, Bill Sewall’s Story of Theodore Roosevelt, p. 12.

  “He never was . . . make a decision”: Ibid., p. 92.

  “a streak of honor”: A. T. Packer, “Roosevelt’s Ranching Days,” Saturday Evening Post, March 4, 1905, p. 13.

  “was very melancholy . . . well off without me”: Sewall, Bill Sewall’s Story of Theodore Roosevelt, p. 47.

  “was not playing cowboy—he was a cowboy”: Edward Schapsmeier and Frederick H. Schapsmeier, “TR’s Cowboy Years,” in Natalie Naylor, Douglas Brinkley, and John Allen Gable, eds., Theodore Roosevelt: Many-Sided American (Interlaken, N.Y.: Heart of the Lakes, 1992), p. 148.

  able to sleep at night: TR to ALC, Sept. 20, 1884, LTR, Vol. 1, p. 82.

  “Black care . . . pace is fast enough”: Theodore Roosevelt, Hermann Hagedorn, and G. B. Grinnell, Hunting Trips of a Ranchman: Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1927), p. 329.

  “We only knew . . . ever to be the guide”: Undated speech, Charles Evans Hughes, Houghton Library, TRC.

  suffer from asthma the rest of his life: CRR, in Dalton, Theodore Roosevelt, p. 52.

  “he was a frail young man . . . for his livelihood”: Sewall, Bill Sewall’s Story of Theodore Roosevelt, p. 41.

  gained thirty pounds: Putnam, Theodore Roosevelt, p. 530.

  “was clear bone, muscle and grit”: Sewall, Bill Sewall’s Story of Theodore Roosevelt, p. 41.

  “failed to make . . . to drive oxen”: From Pittsburgh Dispatch, Aug. 23, 1885, quoted in Putnam, Theodore Roosevelt, p. 530.

  “nervous and timid”: TR, An Autobiography, p. 27.

  “there were all kinds . . . soul and spirit”: Ibid., p. 52.

  “constantly forcing himself . . . even dangerous thing”: Frances Theodora Parsons, Perchance Some Day (Privately printed, 1952), p. 28.

  “a matter of habit . . . of will-power”: TR, An Autobiography, p. 32.

  “mean” horses: Jon A. Knokey, Theodore Roosevelt and the Making of American Leadership (New York: Skyhorse, 2015), pp. 144–45.

  “Perseverance”: TR, quoted in Douglas Brinkley, The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America (New York: HarperCollins, 2009), p. 161.

  “as something to be . . . practicing fearlessness”: TR, An Autobiography, pp. 52–53.

  “the indomitable courage . . . ingrained in his being”: NYT editorial, quoted in Strock, Theodore Roosevelt on Leadership, p. 50.

  “he would never . . . West as he did”: CRR, My Brother, Theodore Roosevelt, p. 150.

  “I would not . . . experience in North Dakota”: “Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota,” National Park Service, Go https://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/presidents/t_roosevelt_park.html.

  “Baby Lee . . . both weak and morbid”: TR to CRR, March 7, 1908, LTR, 6:966.

  “falling out . . . very intimate relations”: Putnam, Theodore Roosevelt, p. 170.

  “with all the passion . . . never loved before”: EKR to TR, June 8, 1886, Derby Papers, TRC.

  “I would like a chance . . . I could really do”: TR to HCL, Aug. 20, 1886, LTR, 1:109.

  “a perfectly hopeless contest”: TR to HCL, Oct. 17, 1886, LTR, 1:111.

  “would bury
him in oblivion”: Grondahl, I Rose Like a Rocket, p. 212.

  felt “below” what he deserved: TR to HCL, Dec. 9, 1896, LTR, 1:570.

  “careful . . . in word and act”: Steffens, The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens, Vol. 1, p. 260.

  “Do what you can . . . where you are”: TR, An Autobiography, p. 337.

  “genius . . . readiness to learn”: Riis, Theodore Roosevelt, the Citizen, p. 154.

  “It treats all offices . . . party leaders”: TR, “The Merit System versus the Patronage System,” Century Magazine (Feb. 1890), p. 628.

  “a living force”: TR to HCL, June 29, 1889, LTR, 1:167.

  “everything in their power”: WP, May 17, 1889.

  “the progress . . . execution of the law”: TR, “The Merit System versus the Patronage System,” p. 629.

  “a hard row to hoe”: TR to HCL, June 29, 1889, LTR, 1:167.

  three guilty employees: Edward P. Kohn, Heir to the Empire City: New York and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt (New York: Basic Books, 2014), p. 132.

  “going to be . . . fear or favor”: TR to HCL, June 29, 1889, LTR, 1:167.

  “so-called voluntary contributions”: Galveston Daily News, Jan. 27, 1890.

  “the difference between . . . dress for his wife”: Riis, Theodore Roosevelt, the Citizen, p. 105.

  “His colleagues . . . consequent attack”: Quoted in William Henry Harbaugh, Power and Responsibility: The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt (New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1961), p. 80.

  “My two colleagues . . . more decided steps”: TR to ARC, May 24, 1891, in Theodore Roosevelt, Letters from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt Cowles, 1870–1918, p. 117.

  “He came into official office . . . Government”: Washington Post, May 6, 1890.

  “put a padlock . . . uncontrollable jaws”: Ohio Democrat, Nov. 27, 1890.

  “Mr. Roosevelt is a young Lochinvar . . . in a good cause”: Boston Evening Times, Oct. 29, 1890, TR scrapbook, TRC.

  “the fellow with no pull . . . social prestige”: Riis, Theodore Roosevelt, the Citizen, p. 106.

  “I have the most . . . on my hands”: TR to ARC, May 19, 1895, LTR, 1:458.

  “Six Years’ War” as Civil Service commissioner: Riis, Theodore Roosevelt, the Citizen, p. 122.

  “It was all breathless . . . What do we do first?”: Steffens, The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens, Vol. 1, pp. 257–58.

  “unmitigated mischief . . . power by the people”: TR, An Autobiography, pp. 170–71.

  “Thinks he’s the whole board”: Steffens, The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens, Vol. 1, p. 257.

  “He talks, talks . . . in the papers”: Joseph Bucklin Bishop, Theodore Roosevelt and His Time, Shown in His Letters, 2 vols. (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 192), Vol. 1, p. 63.

  “I’ve come to help . . . really worth living”: Riis, Theodore Roosevelt, the Citizen, p. 131.

  “from top to bottom”: Knokey, Theodore Roosevelt and the Making of American Leadership, p. 186.

  “utterly demoralized”: Avery Andrews, “Citizen in Action: The Story of TR as Police Commissioner,” unpublished typescript, n.d., p. 8, TRC.

  forced the resignations: Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, pp. 506–7.

  “would spare no man”: Lincoln Steffens, Scrapbook 1, Lincoln Steffens Papers.

  “midnight rambles”: TR to ARC, June 23, 1895, LTR, 1:463.

  “What is that . . . his teeth and glasses?”: Andrews, “Citizen in Action,” TRC.

  “Sly Policemen Caught By Slyer Roosevelt”: Knokey, Theodore Roosevelt and the Making of American Leadership, p. 193.

  “Roosevelt on Patrol . . . for Sleepy Policemen”: New York Sun, June 8, 1895, Clipping Scrapbook, TRC.

  “the most interesting man in America”: Knokey, Theodore Roosevelt and the Making of American Leadership, p. 194.

  “However amusing . . . entirely serious”: Andrews, “Citizen in Action,” TRC.

  “the beginning of a new epoch”: New York Sun, June 8, 1895, Clipping Scrapbook, TRC.

  “naturally first-rate men”: Knokey, Theodore Roosevelt and the Making of American Leadership, p. 195.

  “You are to be congratulated . . . well-patrolled”: Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, p. 510.

  “courage and daring” . . . everyday duties: TR, An Autobiography, pp. 176–77.

  “men with the nightsticks”: Riis, Theodore Roosevelt, the Citizen, p. 139.

  technological improvements: Dalton, Theodore Roosevelt, p. 157.

  “one body . . . summary fashion”: Ibid., p. 159.

  “my whole work . . . work possibly could”: TR to Anna Roosevelt, June 23, 1895, LTR, 1:463.

  “One might hear . . . single midnight inspection”: Riis, Theodore Roosevelt, the Citizen, p. 144.

  “caught off its guard . . . true grain of the thing”: Jacob A. Riis, The Making of an American (New York: Macmillan, 1904), p. 235.

  the worst tenements were razed: Ibid., p. 343.

  “the tap-root”: Riis, Theodore Roosevelt, the Citizen, p. 138.

  “The result . . . network of crime”: TR, An Autobiography, p. 189.

  “fairly and squarely”: TR to Carl Schurz, Aug. 6, 1895, LTR, 1:472.

  “against some and not others”: Andrews, “Citizen in Action,” TRC.

  “no honorable . . . to enforce it”: TR to Anna Roosevelt, June 30, 1895, LTR, 1:463.

  “never been . . . more savage fight”: TR to HCL, July 20, 1895, LTR, 1:469.

  “driving and walking . . . most limited extent”: TR to HCL, Aug. 22, 1895, in Henry Cabot Lodge, Selections from the Correspondence of Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge: 1884–1918 (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1925), Vol. 1, p. 164.

  “furious rage”: TR to ARC, June 30, 1895, LTR, 1:463.

  “You are the biggest fool . . . made of yourself”: Andrews, “Citizen in Action,” TRC.

  “A less resolute man . . . was sworn to do”: Jacob A, Riis, How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1914), p. 241.

  “the howl”: Riis, Theodore Roosevelt, the Citizen, p. 142.

  “the Police Czar . . . Roosevelt’s Razzle Dazzle Reform Racket”: NYT, Sept. 26, 1895.

  “Bully for Teddy!”: Ibid.

  “Teddy, you’re a man!”: Daily Republican (Decatur, Ill.), Sept. 27, 1895.

  “Cheered by Those Who Came to Jeer”: Chicago Evening Journal, reprinted in ibid.

  “let up on the saloon”: TR to HCL, Oct. 11, 1895, LTR, 1:484.

  “He was terribly angry . . . I would not change”: TR to HCL, Oct. 15, 1895, LTR, 1:486.

  “Reform was beaten”: Steffens, The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens, Vol. 1, p. 181.

  “Just at present . . . profound depression”: TR to ARC, Nov. 19, 1895, TR, Letters from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt Cowles, p. 164.

  “He seems . . . much lowered”: HCL to ARC, [Dec. 1895], quoted in Lilian Rixey, Bamie: Theodore Roosevelt’s Remarkable Sister (New York: D. McKay, 1963), p. 89.

  “I do not deal . . . with the law”: Knokey, Theodore Roosevelt and the Making of American Leadership, p. 199.

  “on each side . . . course to follow”: Sewall, Bill Sewall’s Story of Theodore Roosevelt, p. 105.

  “jammed, people . . . in the aisles”: TR to ARC, Oct. 4, 1896, TR, Letters from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt Cowles, p. 194.

  “all of his time . . . work of the campaign”: Albert B. Cummins, in Wood, Roosevelt as We Knew Him, p. 42.

  lobbied on his behalf: TR to HCL, Dec. 4, 1896, LTR, 1:568.

  “I want peace . . . is too pugnacious”: H. Paul Jeffers, Colonel Roosevelt: Theodore Roosevelt Goes to War, 1897–1898 (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1996), p. 22.

  friends cautioned Roosevelt not to settle for this lesser post: TR to HCL, Dec. 4, 1896, LTR, 1:568.

  “a reserve of good feeling”: Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Restoring the Chara
cter Ethics (New York: Free Press, 2004), p. 188.

  “dry docks . . . torpedo boats”: Jeffers, Colonel Roosevelt, p. 31.

  “He is full . . . careful as I am”: John D. Long Diary, Feb. 26, 1897, quoted in Knokey, Theodore Roosevelt and the Making of American Leadership, p. 238.

  “broke the record . . . and rivets”: Jeffers, Colonel Roosevelt, p. 42.

  “A century has passed . . . menace to peace”: TR, “Address to Naval War College,” June 2, 1897, in Bishop, Theodore Roosevelt and His Time, Vol. 1, pp. 74–75.

  “I have always . . . translated into deeds”: Laura Ross, ed., A Passion to Lead: Theodore Roosevelt in His Own Words (New York: Sterling Signature, 2012), p. 66.

  “The Secretary is away . . . running the Navy”: TR to Bellamy Storer, Aug. 19, 1897, LTR, 1:655.

  “As I am given . . . a great deal”: TR to ARC, Aug. 1, 1897, TR, Letters from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt Cowles, p. 208.

  “hot-weather”: TR to HCL, July 22, 1891, LTR, 1:256.

  “I knew that . . . should be done”: TR, An Autobiography, p. 213.

  “You must be tired . . . an entire rest”: TR to John D. Long, Aug. 9, 1897, LTR, 1:642.

  “If things go . . . back for six weeks more”: TR to Long, Aug. 15, 1897, LTR, 1:651.

  “I am very glad . . . weather we have had”: TR to Long, Sept. 15, 1897, LTR, 1:676.

  “chastened”: TR to Long, Aug. 15, 1897, LTR, 1:651.

  “beguilingly honest and open”: Burns and Dunn, The Three Roosevelts, p. 47.

  “was just what you . . . letter and spirit”: TR to Long, Sept. 18, 1897, LTR, 1:681.

  “generous . . . every possible way”: TR to Long, Jan. 3, 1898, LTR, 1:751.

  “it should come finally . . . made long before”: TR to Long, Jan. 14, 1898, LTR, 1:759.

  “an act of friendly courtesy”: Pringle, Theodore Roosevelt, p. 176.

  “I have been through . . . want to see another”: Knokey, Theodore Roosevelt and the Making of American Leadership, p. 210.

  “Do not take any step . . . sensation in the papers”: Bishop, Theodore Roosevelt and His Time, Vol. 1, p. 86.

  “peremptory orders . . . number of seamen”: John D. Long Diary, Feb. 26, 1897, in Stefan Lorant, The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1959), p. 390.