Sumner was an apostle: Robert Green McCloskey, American Conservatism in the Age of Enterprise: A Study of William Graham Sumner, Stephen J. Field and Andrew Carnegie (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1951), pp. 30–32.
“If we should set a limit”: Ibid., p. 50.
he argued that “princely profits”: WHT, “The Right of Private Property,” Michigan Law Journal (August 1894), p. 223.
“the highest pinnacle”: McCloskey, American Conservatism in the Age of Enterprise, p. 83.
“the lawyer who makes”: WHT, “The Professional and Political Prospects of the College Graduate,” in Harry Clark Coe and William Howard Taft, Valedictory Poem and Oration Pronounced Before the Senior Class in Yale College, Presentation Day, June 25, 1878 (New Haven, CT: Morehouse & Taylor, 1878).
“the greatest prize in college”: Pringle, Life and Times, Vol. 1, p. 41.
“He has in this . . . & practiced”: Alphonso Taft to DCT, Oct. 21, 1877, WHTP.
“We shall regret that . . . reputation every time”: Alphonso Taft to DCT, Dec. 16, 1877, WHTP.
“coming on slowly”: WHT to Alphonso Taft, Mar. 11, 1878, WHTP.
“finding it rather difficult”: WHT to Alphonso Taft, April 14, 1878, WHTP.
“The sound of approaching music . . . manly sincerity”: NYT, June 26, 1878.
“I wish you could get”: WHT to Alphonso Taft, April 14, 1878, WHTP.
“Peter continues so strange . . . to Tillie’s wishes”: LTT to DCT, Jan. 22, 1878, WHTP.
“I am doing my best . . . above all others”: Peter Rawson Taft to Alphonso Taft, April 19, 1878, WHTP.
“I have a kind of presentiment”: WHT to HHT, May 10, 1891, WHTP.
“a sickly and timid boy”: TR to Edward S. Martin, Nov. 26, 1900, in Elting E. Morison, ed., The Years of Preparation, 1898–1900, Vol. 2 of LTR, p. 1443.
“Nobody seemed to think”: New York World, Nov. 16, 1902.
“Theodore Roosevelt, whose name”: Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, My Brother, Theodore Roosevelt (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1921), p. 1.
“great and loving care . . . walk up and down with me”: TR to Edward S. Martin, Nov. 26, 1900, in LTR, Vol. 2, p. 1443.
“I could breathe”: Lincoln Steffens, The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens (New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1931), p. 350.
“My father”: Ibid.
“one of the five richest”: Nathan Miller, The Roosevelt Chronicles (New York: Doubleday & Co., 1979), p. 117.
feared would “spoil” him: New York World, Feb. 11, 1878.
“I am trying to school”: Theodore Roosevelt, Sr., to Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, June 10, 1853, TRC.
now “confident . . . only live in your being”: Martha Bulloch Roosevelt to Theodore Roosevelt, Sr., July 26, 1853, in CRR, My Brother, pp. 13–14.
“the blood rush . . . I love you!”: Theodore Roosevelt, Sr., to Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, Aug. 3, 1853, in ibid., p. 15.
“If I may judge”: Martha Elliott Bulloch to Susan West, Nov. 16, 1861, TRC.
“I shudder to think”: AB to Clara, January 8, 1909, in Abbott, ed., Letters of Archie Butt, p. 279.
Thee suppressed . . . “absolute fighting forces”: Anna Roosevelt Cowles, “The Story of the Roosevelt Family,” unpublished MS, n.d., CRR Papers.
“the most dominant figure”: CRR, My Brother, p. 9.
“the most intimate friend”: Ibid., p. 7.
“we used to wait”: TR, An Autobiography (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1920), p. 8.
“there was never anyone”: ARC, “The Story of the Roosevelt Family,” CRR Papers.
“he was one of those rare”: McCullough, Mornings on Horseback, p. 31.
He tutored them . . . “the dead limbs”: CRR, My Brother, p. 8.
“turn aside from his business”: DCT to LTT, Jan. 17, 1859, WHTP.
“I never knew anyone”: TR, An Autobiography, p. 9.
“not so much for what it was”: Theodore Roosevelt, Sr., to Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, Sept. 28, 1873, TRC.
improving the lives of tenement children: TR, An Autobiography, p. 10; CRR, My Brother, pp. 4–5.
“Father was the finest man”: Jacob A. Riis, Theodore Roosevelt: The Citizen (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1907), p. 446.
to arrange home tutoring . . . Mittie’s sister, Anna: TR, An Autobiography, pp. 12–13.
their mother provided: Ibid., p. 4; ARC, “The Story of the Roosevelt Family,” CRR Papers.
“From the very fact . . . power of concentration”: William Draper Lewis, The Life of Theodore Roosevelt (Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co., 1919), p. 36.
“men who were fearless”: TR, An Autobiography, p. 27.
“I can see him now . . . month to month”: CRR, My Brother, pp. 1–2.
“anything less tranquil”: Ibid., p. 89.
“riding, driving . . . the ‘divine fire’ ”: Frances Theodora Parsons, Perchance Some Day (New York: Privately printed, 1951), pp. 26, 29.
“Roosevelt Museum of Natural History”: TR, An Autobiography, p. 14.
“He loves the woods”: WHT, “My Predecessor,” Collier’s, Mar. 6, 1909, p. 25.
“Sit down, Will . . . domestic affairs”: Edward George Lowry, “The White House Now,” Harper’s, May 15, 1909, p. 7.
“a great little home-boy”: CRR, My Brother, p. 45.
He traversed fields . . . of the Vatican: TR, Diaries of Boyhood and Youth, pp. 18–19, 150, 181; CRR, My Brother, pp. 46, 49.
“we three”: TR, Diaries of Boyhood and Youth, pp. 63, 109.
“that a real education”: Kathleen Mary Dalton, “The Early Life of Theodore Roosevelt,” PhD diss., Johns Hopkins University, 1979, p. 188.
“Theodore, you have the mind . . . I’ll make my body”: CRR, My Brother, p. 50.
to expand “his chest”: Ibid.
“the strenuous life”: Ibid.
two “mischievous” boys . . . “perceptible improvement whatever”: TR, An Autobiography, pp. 27–28.
his “timid” nature: Parsons, Perchance Some Day, p. 28.
“There were all kinds of things”: Edward Wagenknecht, The Seven Worlds of Theodore Roosevelt (New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1958), p. 3.
“by constantly forcing”: Parsons, Perchance Some Day, p. 28.
“a matter of habit”: TR, An Autobiography, p. 32.
“We arrived in sight of Alexandria”: TR, Diaries of Boyhood and Youth, p. 276.
“first real collecting”: TR, An Autobiography, p. 19.
a private vessel . . . thirteen-man crew: McCullough, Mornings on Horseback, p. 123.
“I had no idea”: TR, An Autobiography, p. 18.
“My first knowledge”: Ibid., p. 19.
“an almost ruthless single-mindedness”: Putnam, Theodore Roosevelt: The Formative Years, p. 99.
“And of course”: CRR, My Brother, p. 80.
“This trip . . . formed”: TR, An Autobiography, p. 19.
“lamentably weak in Latin”: Ibid., p. 21.
“The young man never”: Putnam, Theodore Roosevelt: The Formative Years, p. 127.
“What will I become . . . but it is hard”: McCullough, Mornings on Horseback, p. 144.
“It produced congestion”: Theodore Roosevelt, Sr., to Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, Nov. 9, 1874, in ibid., p. 145.
“I jump involuntarily”: Elliott Roosevelt to Theodore Roosevelt, Sr., Nov. 22, 1874, in ibid., p. 146.
“could make more friends . . . in many respects”: Elliott Roosevelt to Theodore Roosevelt, Sr., Mar. 6, 1875, in Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor and Franklin (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1971), p. 7.
“During my Latin lesson”: Ibid.
“fainted just after leaving”: Ibid., p. 8.
“Is it not splendid”: TR to ARC, July 25, 1875, in Elting E. Morison, ed., The Years of Preparation, 1868–1898, Vol. 1 of LTR, p. 13.
“a slender nervous young man”: Donald G. Wilhelm, Theodore Roosevelt as an Undergraduate (Boston: J. W. Luce & Co., 1910), p. 3
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He worried initially: TR to CRR, Nov. 26, 1876, TRC.
“studious, ambitious”: Henry F. Pringle, Theodore Roosevelt: A Biography (New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1931), p. 33.
“It was not often . . . again and again”: Paul Grondahl, I Rose Like a Rocket: The Political Education of Theodore Roosevelt (New York: Free Press, 2004), p. 45.
“Now look here, Roosevelt”: Wilhelm, Theodore Roosevelt as an Undergraduate, p. 35.
he would retreat to a corner: Ibid., p. 24.
“No man ever came”: Ibid.
“My library has been”: TR to Theodore Roosevelt, Sr., and Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, Feb. 11, 1877, in LTR, Vol. 1, p. 26.
“the greatest of companions”: Wagenknecht, Seven Worlds, p. 44.
“As I talked the pages”: Frederick S. Wood, Roosevelt as We Knew Him: The Personal Recollections of One Hundred and Fifty of His Friends and Associates (Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co., 1927), p. 361.
“He always carried a book”: Wagenknecht, Seven Worlds, p. 46.
Roosevelt’s ability to concentrate . . . “not be diverted”: Charles Grenfell Washburn, Theodore Roosevelt: The Logic of His Career (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1916), p. 3.
Preparing so far ahead “freed his mind”: Straus, Under Four Administrations, p. 256.
finished a complete draft: Ibid., pp. 255–56.
“I never knew a man”: WHT, “My Predecessor,” Collier’s, Mar. 6, 1909, p. 25.
exercising rigorously day after day: TR, Diaries of Boyhood and Youth, pp. 355–56, 363.
“he danced just as you’d expect”: Putnam, Theodore Roosevelt: The Formative Years, p. 166.
“His college life broadened”: Lewis, Life of Theodore Roosevelt, p. 51.
“Funnily enough”: TR to Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, Oct. 8, 1878, in LTR, Vol. 1, p. 34.
“As I saw the last of the train”: Grondahl, I Rose Like a Rocket, pp. 41–42.
“I do not think”: TR to Theodore Roosevelt, Sr., Oct. 22, 1876, in LTR, Vol. 1, p. 18.
The Senate rejected Roosevelt’s nomination: NYT, Oct. 30 & Dec. 4, 1877; Galveston [TX] Daily News, Dec. 13, 1877.
“The machine politicians”: Dalton, “The Early Life of Theodore Roosevelt,” p. 282.
an advanced stage of bowel cancer: McCullough, Mornings on Horseback, p. 181.
“very much better”: TR, Diaries of Boyhood and Youth, p. 364.
“Today he told me”: TR, Personal Diary, Jan. 2, 1878, TRP.
His groans reverberated: Elliott Roosevelt, unpublished MS, n.d., TRC.
his dark hair turned gray: Putnam, Theodore Roosevelt: The Formative Years, p. 148.
Elliott stayed by his father’s side: Elliott Roosevelt, undated memorandum, TRC.
His grief was “doubly bitter . . . dearest on earth died”: TR to Henry Davis Minot, July 5, 1880, TRC.
“I never was able”: TR, Personal Diary, June 20, 1878, TRP.
“The death of Mr. Roosevelt”: NYT, Feb. 13, 1878.
“Flags flew . . . wept over him”: Riis, Theodore Roosevelt: The Citizen, p. 447.
“There was truly no end”: NYT, Feb. 12, 1878.
“He has just been buried”: TR, Personal Diary, Feb. 12, 1878, TRP.
still struck him “like a hideous dream”: Ibid.
“It has been a most fortunate thing”: TR, Personal Diary, Mar. 11, 1878, TRP.
“If I had very much time”: TR, Personal Diary, Mar. 6, 1878, TRP.
“every nook and corner”: TR, Personal Diary, June 6, 1878, TRP.
“Am leading the most intensely”: TR, Personal Diary, June 21, 1878, TRP.
“the only human being”: TR, Personal Diary, April 18, 1878, TRP.
“it was a real case”: TR, Personal Diary, Jan. 30, 1880, TRP.
he vowed “to win her”: TR, Personal Diary, Jan. 25, 1880, TRP.
“made everything subordinate”: TR to Henry Davis Minot, Feb. 13, 1880, in LTR, Vol. 1, p. 43.
mesmerized her young brother: Pringle, Theodore Roosevelt: A Biography, p. 42.
“the tortures” he was suffering: TR, Personal Diary, Jan. 30, 1880, TRP.
“I have hardly had”: Ibid.
“I am so happy”: TR, Personal Diary, Jan. 25, 1880, TRP.
“I do not believe”: TR, Personal Diary, Mar. 11, 1880, TRP.
“nothing on earth left to wish for”: TR, Personal Diary, July 29, 1880, TRP.
a “royally good time”: TR, Personal Diary, June 28, 1879, TRP.
“As regards the laws”: Richard Welling, “Theodore Roosevelt at Harvard,” Outlook, Oct. 27, 1920, p. 367.
“only one gentleman”: TR to ARC, Oct. 13, 1879, in LTR, Vol. 1, p. 42.
“I have certainly lived”: TR, Personal Diary, May 5, 1880, TRP.
“do my best, and work”: TR, Personal Diary, Mar. 25, 1880, TRP.
“Natural history was to remain”: Putnam, Theodore Roosevelt: The Formative Years, p. 179.
“great sorrow and great joy . . . overbalanced the sorrow”: TR to Henry Davis Minot, July 5, 1880, TRC.
CHAPTER THREE: The Judge and the Politician
“a judicial habit of thought and action”: Francis E. Leupp, “Taft and Roosevelt: A Composite Study,” The Atlantic Monthly (November 1910), p. 650.
an “old style” institution: Pringle, Life and Times, Vol. 1, p. 49.
“more about the workings of the law”: Burton, The Learned Presidency, p. 96.
“struck and scratched him”: Cincinnati Commercial, Nov. 6, 1878.
to complete these accounts before dinner: Pringle, Life and Times, Vol. 1, p. 53.
“Washington will remain . . . metropolis of America”: Daniel Hurley and the Cincinnati Historical Society, Cincinnati: The Queen City (Cincinnati, OH: Cin. Hist. Soc., 1988), p. 73.
“large, handsome and fair”: Pringle, Life and Times, Vol. 1, p. 61.
“a capital opportunity . . . to have you lose it”: Alphonso Taft to WHT, July 1, 1879, WHTP.
“agreed on a settlement”: Alphonso Taft to WHT, July 2, 1879, WHTP.
“This gratifying your fondness”: Alphonso Taft to WHT, July 2, 1879, WHTP.
“I do not think”: Alphonso Taft to WHT, July 3, 1879, WHTP.
“he would not be seen in public”: Pringle, Life and Times, Vol. 1, p. 52.
a salary of $1,500 a year: Ibid., pp. 53–54.
“its talons deep in the judiciary”: Duffy, William Howard Taft, p. 10.
“was able to secure any verdict”: NYT, Mar. 30, 1884.
took “a sensational turn”: Cin. Com., Dec. 7, 1880.
he “fell in” with Miller Outcault: WHT to WAW, Feb. 26, 1908, White Papers.
“standing upon the railing”: Cin. Com., Dec. 14, 1880.
“nasty torrent of abuse”: Cin. Com., Dec. 11, 1880.
“the bitterest invective . . . three-cornered fight”: Cin. Com., Dec. 9, 1880.
to dismiss prosecutor Drew: Titusville [PA] Morning Herald, Dec. 16, 1880.
“the experience he had”: HHT, Recollections of Full Years, p. 9.
“a Theodore Roosevelt might . . . personally or politically ambitious”: Pringle, Life and Times, Vol. 1, p. 55.
“He was on his legs”: Taft, Memories and Opinions, p. 110.
he canvassed the city . . . remained involved: WHT to WAW, Feb. 26, 1908, White Papers.
“I attended all . . . on good terms”: Ibid.
“the most popular young man”: LTT to DCT, Jan. 26, 1882, WHTP.
“was known to be a bruiser”: Duffy, William Howard Taft, p. 7.
a “terrible beating”: Petersburg [VA] Index and Appeal, April 22, 1879.
“lifted him up and dashed him”: Lyle, “Taft: A Career of Big Tasks,” The World’s Work (August 1907).
“The feeling among all”: Bismarck [ND] Tribune, April 26, 1879.
“I want him to . . . do it well”: Alphonso Taft to DCT, Oct. 17, 1880, WHTP.
aghast to see his name . . . throughout the city: LTT to DCT, September [
n.d.], 1880, WHTP.
“Don’t allow yourself”: Alphonso Taft to WHT, Sept. 10, 1880, WHTP.
“He finds the farmers . . . not embarrassed”: LTT to DCT, September [n.d.], 1880, WHTP.
“There is every . . . first class lawyer, too”: Alphonso Taft to DCT, Oct. 17, 1880, WHTP.
“If you will appoint”: Taft, Memories and Opinions, p. 111.
“I did not wish”: LTT to DCT, Jan. 26, 1882, WHTP.
Taft was “too young”: Ibid.
collecting over $10 million: Lyle, “Taft: A Career of Big Tasks,” The World’s Work (August 1907).
“had no political enemies”: WHT to WAW, Feb. 28, 1908, White Papers.
He detested the prominence of the position: WHT to Alphonso Taft, June 4, 1882, WHTP.
too “thin-skinned” for “public life”: James David Barber, The Presidential Character: Predicting Performance in the White House (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1985), p. 152.
“but announced . . . the course he followed”: Taft, Memories and Opinions, p. 111.
the “bulldozer” tone of the letter: WHT to Alphonso Taft, July 24, 1882, WHTP.
“are among the best . . . in regard to Civil Service”: WHT to Thomas Young, July 29, 1882, WHTP.
“I would much rather resign”: WHT to Alphonso Taft, July 24, 1882, WHTP.
“The men whose removal . . . down to business”: WHT to Alphonso Taft, Oct. 28, 1882, WHTP.
“I am mighty glad . . . Reformer in practice”: Horace Taft to LTT, Sept. 5, 1882, WHTP.
“It is the opening”: WHT to Alphonso Taft, Oct. 28, 1882, WHTP.
“to work at the law”: Alphonso Taft to Charles P. Taft, Jan. 10, 1883, WHTP.
“younger by several years”: Annie Sinton Taft to Alphonso Taft, May 6, 1883, WHTP.
“I wish you could look”: WHT to Frances L. Taft, Jan. 26, 1883, WHTP.
“I hope you will make”: Ross, An American Family, p. 71.
“glad to get home”: WHT to LTT, Oct. 5, 1883, WHTP.
“Will is working well”: H. P. Lloyd to Alphonso Taft, Dec. 13, 1883, WHTP.
“makes friends wherever”: WHT to Frances L. Taft, Jan. 6, 1882, WHTP.
“grow large enough”: Ibid.
he was “no nearer matrimony”: WHT to LTT, Sept. 10, 1882, WHTP.
a different girl each evening: WHT to LTT, Feb. 2, 1883, WHTP.
“I see Father shake his head”: WHT to Frances L. Taft, Feb. 11, 1883, WHTP.
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