“Well . . . you’ll be here”: WHT to Henry W. Taft and Horace Taft, Jan. 28, 1900, Pringle Papers.
“You have had”: HHT, Recollections of Full Years, p. 34.
“didn’t sleep a wink . . . climate of Manila”: Charles E. Barker, With President Taft in the White House: Memories of William Howard Taft (Chicago: A. Kroch & Son, 1947), pp. 23–24.
“so grave . . . impeachment”: HHT, Recollections of Full Years, p. 33.
“Yes, of course . . . novel experience”: Ibid.
“You can do more good”: Horace Taft to WHT, Jan. 31, 1900, WHTP.
“the rest of . . . [his] colleagues”: Henry W. Taft to WHT, Jan. 30, 1900, WHTP.
“responsible for success or failure”: Pringle, Life and Times, Vol. 1, p. 161.
“the hardest thing he ever did”: HHT, Recollections of Full Years, p. 35.
“the Philippines business”: TR to HCL, Feb. 3, 1900, in LTR, Vol. 2, p. 1166.
“a very hard . . . to advise with”: TR to WHT, Jan. 31, 1899, in ibid., p. 927.
“I wish there was”: TR to Maria Longworth Storer, Dec. 2, 1899, in ibid., p. 1101.
rejoiced in his “final triumph”: WHT to TR, Feb. 15, 1900, TRP.
“Curiously enough”: TR to WHT, Feb. 7, 1900, in LTR, Vol. 2, p. 1175.
“That it was alluring”: HHT, Recollections of Full Years, p. 33.
“Robert was ten”: Ibid., pp. 36–37.
“We soon became”: Ibid., p. 39.
“the most interesting years”: Ibid., p. 40.
“one of the ablest”: Ibid., p. 41.
a New England judge . . . and a historian: Ibid., pp. 41–45.
relished “the bonds of friendship”: Ibid., p. 40.
“The populace”: Pringle, Life and Times, Vol. 1, p. 169.
“as a personal reflection”: WHT, “Address before the National Geographic Society,” Washington, DC, Nov. 14, 1913, WHTP.
“We are civil officers . . . as to anyone”: Press statement enclosed in WHT to Charles P. Taft, June 2, 1900, WHTP.
“the precise kind . . . loftiest of motives”: Harper’s Weekly clipping enclosed in Horace Taft to WHT, July 14, 1900, WHTP.
“high canopied . . . would be served”: HHT, Recollections of Full Years, pp. 102–3, 105.
“homely and unpalatial abode”: Ibid., p. 211.
the large library of books on civil law: WHT to Charles Taft, June 23, 1900, WHTP.
At ten o’clock . . . “who wish[ed] to see them”: WHT to Charles Taft, July 25, 1900, WHTP.
At one o’clock . . . foot for their homes: WHT to Harriet Herron, Jan. 19, 1901, WHTP.
“The walk is about . . . strong at meals”: Ibid.
“policy of conciliation”: WHT, “Address before the National Geographic Society,” Washington, DC, Nov. 14, 1913, WHTP.
“our little brown brothers . . . no friend of mine!”: HHT, Recollections of Full Years, p. 125.
“agitation and discontent”: Pringle, Life and Times, Vol. 1, p. 177.
to treat the Filipinos as “niggers”: WHT to Charles P. Taft, June 2, 1900, WHTP.
“It is a great mistake”: HHT to WHT, July 21, 1900, WHTP.
“except a select military circle”: HHT, Recollections of Full Years, p. 109.
“even small gestures”: Anthony, Nellie Taft, p. 141.
“made it a rule”: HHT, Recollections of Full Years, p. 114.
“We always had”: Ibid., p. 125.
insistence “upon complete racial equality”: HHT quoted in Anthony, Nellie Taft, p. 248.
Filipinos of “wealth and position”: WHT to HHT, July 8, 1900, WHTP.
“To say that”: WHT to Charles P. Taft, June 13, 1901, WHTP.
spending a small inheritance: Anthony, Nellie Taft, p. 141.
“giving [the] wealthy”: Pringle, Life and Times, Vol. 1, p. 194.
“precursors of . . . and binoculars”: Stanley Karnow, In Our Image: America’s Empire in the Philippines (New York: Random House, 1989), p. 196.
“enter upon some work”: WHT to HHT, July 2, 1900, WHTP.
Philippine Constabulary Band . . . international renown: Anthony, Nellie Taft, pp. 156–57.
the reduction of infant mortality in Manila: Ibid., p. 155.
“in the interest of”: Ibid., p. 154.
He likened her activism: WHT to HHT, June 12, 1900, WHTP.
“I wish to record”: WHT to HHT, June 18 & 19, 1900, WHTP.
“with undisguised surprise”: WHT to Charles P. Taft, Aug. 31, 1900, WHTP.
had met “congenial companions”: HHT, Recollections of Full Years, p. 217.
“everybody in the world”: Ibid., p. 98.
Charlie, nicknamed “the tornado”: Ibid., p. 54.
“an old fashioned quadrille”: Ibid., p. 166.
“literally dancing”: Walter Wellman, “Taft, Trained to Be President,” American Review of Reviews (June 1908).
“unusual size . . . superiority”: LTT to WHT, July 9, 1900, WHTP.
“a good government . . . prosperous” economy: WHT to HHT, June 15, 1900, WHTP.
“ignorant, superstitious people”: Pringle, Life and Times, Vol. 1, p. 173.
“Not that I am”: WHT to Annie Roelker, Jan. 19, 1901, WHTP.
“a good deal to carry . . . to the campaign”: WHT to Charles P. Taft, June 30, 1900, WHTP.
“draw in line”: Charles P. Taft to WHT, June 23, 1900, WHTP.
“I could wish . . . Filipinos as well”: WHT to TR, June 27, 1900, TRP.
“any help . . . be vice-president”: TR to WHT, Aug. 6, 1900, in LTR, Vol. 2, p. 1377.
“as strong as . . . up to the limit”: TR to MAH, June 27, 1900, in ibid., p. 1342.
“No candidate . . . on the American stump”: Thomas Collier Platt and Louis J. Lang, The Autobiography of Thomas Collier Platt (New York: B. W. Dodge & Co., 1910), pp. 396–97.
Throughout the evening: NYT, Nov. 7, 1900.
“tiptoes with excitement . . . McKinley”: HHT, Recollections of Full Years, p. 141.
“My dear Theodore”: WHT to TR, Nov. [n.d.], 1900, TRP.
“Hardly a day passed”: HHT, Recollections of Full Years, p. 147.
“The attitude of the native”: WHT to Charles P. Taft, Jan. 29, 1901, WHTP.
“The leaders in Manila . . . welcome a change”: WHT to HCL, Jan. 7, 1901, WHTP.
“Of course” . . . they came along as well: WHT to Charles Taft, Mar. 17, 1901, WHTP.
“greatly pleased . . . friendliest kind of attitude”: HHT, Recollections of Full Years, p. 154.
The desire . . . “manifest on every side”: WHT to Horace Taft, April 25, 1901, WHTP.
“the streets were crowded”: HHT, Recollections of Full Years, p. 162.
“Spectacular” festivities . . . celebrated their progress: Ibid., pp. 162–65.
“a singular experience”: Ibid., p. 181.
“The responsibilities . . . taking control of things”: WHT to TR, May 12, 1901, TRP.
“I envy you . . . justifying my existence”: TR to WHT, Mar. 12, 1901, in LTR, Vol. 3, p. 11.
“sympathize with . . . top to the bottom”: TR to Maria and Bellamy Storer, April 17, 1901, in ibid., p. 56.
“ought to be abolished . . . any advice”: TR to Leonard Wood, April 17, 1901, in ibid., p. 59.
“I am rather . . . unwarrantable idleness”: TR to WHT, April 26, 1901, in ibid., pp. 68–69.
“I look forward”: WHT to TR, May 12, 1901, TRP.
“I doubt if . . . old man”: TR to WHT, Mar. 12, 1901, in LTR, Vol. 3, p. 12.
“music, fireworks”: New Castle [PA] News, July 3, 1901.
“an occasion of . . . his natural size”: HHT, Recollections of Full Years, pp. 206–7.
“a new step . . . popular basis”: WHT, “Inaugural Address as Civil Governor of the Philippines,” Manila, July 4, 1901, WHTP.
democracy “from the top down”: Bradley, The Imperial Cruise, p. 121.
“feudal oligarchy . . . rich and poor”
: Karnow, In Our Image, p. 198.
“the wildest . . . of the new governor”: Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, WI), July 5, 1901.
“In some ways . . . was actually established”: HHT, Recollections of Full Years, pp. 211–12.
“the idea of living”: Ibid., p. 212.
“all of them . . . bank of the Pasig”: Ibid., p. 213.
“Army and Navy people . . . among our guests”: Ibid., p. 217.
“a great society beau”: HHT to Harriet Herron, Sept. 2, 1901, WHTP.
“You would be amused”: HHT to Jennie Anderson, July 17, 1901, in Phyllis Robbins, Robert A. Taft, Boy and Man (Cambridge, MA: Dresser, Chapman & Grimes, 1963), p. 67.
“It seems idle . . . to say this in public”: TR to WHT, July 15, 1901, in LTR, Vol. 3, pp. 120–21.
professor of history at a university: TR to Hugo Munsterberg, May 7, 1901, in ibid., p. 72.
“Of course, I may”: TR to Leonard Wood, Mar. 27, 1901, in ibid., p. 39.
CHAPTER TEN: “That Damned Cowboy Is President”
“The ship of state”: “President McKinley’s Death,” The Nation, Sept. 19, 1901, p. 218.
“What changes”: Washington Post, Sept. 15, 1901, in Arnold, Remaking the Presidency, p. 39.
“Will he continue”: Minneapolis Journal, Sept. 15, 1901.
prove a “bucking bronco”: Kohlsaat, From McKinley to Harding, p. 98.
“first great duty”: New York Sun, Sept. 15, 1901, in Mark Sullivan, Our Times: The United States, 1900–1925 (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1926), Vol. 2, p. 403.
presidents had been captive: See Arnold, Remaking the Presidency, p. 3.
“not depend on”: New York Sun, Sept. 15, 1901, in Sullivan, Our Times, Vol. 2, p. 403.
“The conservative policy”: Boston Sunday Globe, Sept. 15, 1901.
“dreaded radicalism . . . was progressive”: TR, An Autobiography, p. 351.
“push . . . the masters of both of us”: Ibid., p. 352.
“active support”: Ibid., p. 354.
“one in purpose”: Atlanta Constitution, Sept. 14, 1901.
“In this hour”: New York Tribune, Sept. 17, 1901.
“an unusual request”: George Juergens, “Theodore Roosevelt and the Press,” Daedalus (Fall 1982), p. 113.
“keep them posted . . . not to be published”: David S. Barry, Forty Years in Washington (Boston: Little, Brown, 1924), p. 268.
“I am President”: Ibid., p. 267.
“pop-eyed . . . burning candor”: WAW, “Remarks,” Oct. 27 [n.y.], White Papers.
“be different . . . absolutely unchanged”: Ibid.
“embarrass him sorely”: Rixey, Bamie, p. 172.
“give the lie”: Ibid.
“cataract solo of talk”: WAW, “Remarks,” Oct. 27 [n.y.], White Papers.
“Imagine me”: Ibid.
“the old cannon”: WAW, The Autobiography, p. 339.
“Here you are”: TR to WAW, Mar. 12, 1901, in LTR, Vol. 3, pp. 10–11.
“a frowzy little . . . North at that time”: WAW, The Autobiography, p. 335.
“about his own . . . wreck the machines”: Ibid.
“untrammeled” greed: WAW, Emporia [KS] Gazette, Sept. 7, 1901, cited in Johnson, William Allen White’s America, p. 127.
“We reformers . . . that had come to him”: LS, The Autobiography, pp. 502–3.
“Unconsciously . . . a bitter piece”: WAW, The Autobiography, pp. 339–40.
“too scorching”: WAW to August Jaccaci, Oct. 23, 1901, in WAW and Johnson, eds., Selected Letters of William Allen White, p. 45.
“to bring order . . . purchase of privileges”: WAW, “Platt,” McClure’s (December 1901), pp. 149–50.
an earthworm, “boring . . . inexorable, grinding”: Ibid., pp. 148, 153.
“to haul both author”: Titusville [PA] Morning Herald, Dec. 19, 1901.
“I will get”: WAW to John S. Phillips, Dec. 17, 1901, White Papers.
“to bring about”: Johnson, William Allen White’s America, p. 135.
“who told him the lies”: New York World, Dec. 19, 1901.
“No friend of mine”: Washington Post, Dec. 18, 1901.
“I am perfectly . . . this business out”: WAW to TR, Dec. 17, 1901, White Papers.
“Not one syllable . . . by the president”: WAW to George B. Cortelyou, Dec. 18, 1901, TRC.
“The only damage”: TR to WAW, Dec. 31, 1901, in LTR, Vol. 3, p. 214.
“they would welcome”: Johnson, William Allen White’s America, p. 135.
“a kind of nervous . . . you all out so”: WAW to August Jaccaci, Jan. 21, 1902, White Papers.
“Probably no administration”: Irwin H. Hoover, Forty-two Years in the White House (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1934), p. 27.
“While he is in”: Sullivan, Our Times, Vol. 3, pp. 72–73.
“The infectiousness”: Ibid., Vol. 2, p. 399.
“Where Mr. McKinley . . . never means to do so”: Walter Wellman, Chicago Record-Herald, reprinted in the Piqua [OH] Daily Call, Nov. 20, 1901.
“a right good laugh . . . listens to nobody”: Ibid.
“darts into the”: LS, “The Overworked President,” McClure’s (April 1902), p. 485.
“one letter after another”: Parsons, Perchance Some Day, p. 141.
“The room is”: LS, “The Overworked President,” McClure’s (April 1902), p. 486.
“an overflowing stream”: Ibid., p. 489.
“to try the President’s”: NYT, Sept. 29, 1901.
the “barber’s hour”: LS, The Autobiography, p. 509.
“A more skillful”: Louis Brownlow, A Passion for Politics: The Autobiography of Louis Brownlow: First Half (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955), p. 399.
Only “when the barber”: LS, The Autobiography, p. 510.
“Western bullwackers”: WAW, Masks in a Pageant (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1928), p. 306.
“Whether the subject . . . equally at home”: Wagenknecht, Seven Worlds, p. 32.
“point to point . . . down over it”: Ibid., p. 14.
“finger-marks”: Jacob Riis, “Mrs. Roosevelt and Her Children,” Ladies’ Home Journal (August 1902), p. 6.
“this or that general”: AB to his mother, Oct. 10, 1908, in Abbott, ed., Letters of Archie Butt, p. 119.
“in afternoon dress . . . should meet ladies”: Thayer, Theodore Roosevelt: An Intimate Biography, pp. 262–63.
“by far the best . . . under discussion”: Oscar King Davis, Released for Publication: Some Inside Political History of Theodore Roosevelt and His Times, 1898–1918 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1925), p. 128.
“allowed to become”: Riis, “Mrs. Roosevelt and Her Children,” Ladies’ Home Journal (August 1902), p. 5.
“I play bear”: TR to Alice Lee Roosevelt, Nov. 29, 1901, in LTR, Vol. 3, p. 203.
“It was the gloomiest”: “Mrs. Roosevelt’s Address,” Oct. 20, 1933, Roosevelt House Bulletin (Fall 1933), pp. 2–3.
The children . . . pony to ride the elevator: Hoover, Forty-two Years in the White House, p. 29; Juergens, “Theodore Roosevelt and the Press,” Daedalus (Fall 1982), p. 124; Isabella Hagner James, “Memoirs of Isabella Hagner, 1901–1905,” White House History: Journal of the White House Historical Association, No. 26, p. 61.
“Places that had not”: Hoover, Forty-two Years in the White House, p. 28.
“done more to brighten”: Atlanta Constitution, Oct. 24, 1901.
Taft was certain that Roosevelt: WHT to William C. McFarland, Sept. 20, 1901, WHTP.
“impulsiveness and”: WHT to Joseph Bucklin Bishop, Sept. 20, 1901, in Pringle, Life and Times, Vol. 1, p. 211.
citing the fortitude, honesty, and intelligence: WHT to Elihu Root, Sept. 26, 1901, in ibid.; WHT to Rev. Rainsford, Sept. 20, 1901, Pringle Papers.
to see “the consummation”: TR to Joseph Bucklin Bishop, Sept. 20, 1901, in Pringle, Life and Times, Vol. 1, p. 210.
“In so far as the work”: HHT, Recollections of a Full Life, p
. 224.
“only a strenuous man”: Horace Taft to WHT, Oct. 14, 1901, WHTP.
“I dislike speaking . . . incredibly difficult work”: TR, “Governor William H. Taft,” Outlook (September 1901), p. 166.
Unbeknownst to the Americans: Karnow, In Our Image, p. 189.
hundreds of insurrectionists suddenly charged: Ibid., p. 190.
“It was a disaster . . . in our beds any night”: HHT, Recollections of a Full Life, p. 225.
“silly talk”: Karnow, In Our Image, p. 191.
“no prisoners . . . Ten years”: Ibid.
“Disastrous Fight . . . Slaughtered by Filipinos”: New York Tribune, Sept. 30, 1901; Houston Daily Post, Sept. 30, 1901.
“the first severe reverse”: The News (Frederick, MD), September 30, 1901.
“One of the Republicans”: WHT to Charles P. Taft, Oct. 15, 1901, WHTP.
“in all other parts”: WHT to Murat Halstead, Sept. 20, 1901, WHTP.
“to such a pitch”: WHT to Charles P. Taft, Oct. 15, 1901, WHTP.
“Officers take”: TR to Horace Taft, Oct. 21, 1901, in Pringle, Life and Times, Vol. 1, p. 213.
“a dreadful depression”: WHT to TR, Sept. 13, 1902, TRP.
roving outlaw bands . . . new Board of Health: WHT to Murat Halstead, Sept. 20, 1901, WHTP.
“Altogether”: WHT to Charles P. Taft, Oct. 15, 1901, WHTP.
“While I have none”: WHT to Horace Taft, Oct. 21, 1901, WHTP.
Helen burst into tears: WHT to Charles P. Taft, Nov. 8, 1901, WHTP.
“Come dear am sick”: WHT to HHT, Oct. 25, 1901, in Pringle, Life and Times, Vol. 1, p. 214.
“hire a hall and make a speech”: WHT to Charles P. Taft, Nov. 8, 1901, WHTP.
“Much better”: WHT to HHT, Oct. 26, 1901, in Pringle, Life and Times, Vol. 1, p. 214.
“peace of mind”: WHT to Charles P. Taft, Nov. 8, 1901, WHTP.
promising them he would return: James A. Leroy, “Governor Taft’s Record in the Philippines,” The Independent, Jan. 28, 1904, p. 194.
“the high summer” . . . Hundreds . . . consolidated into single corporations: George E. Mowry, Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Movement (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1946), p. 12.
“I intend to work”: Bishop, Theodore Roosevelt and His Time, p. 150.
These organizations: WAW, “Platt,” McClure’s (December 1901), p. 150.
“just as he would”: NYT, Jan. 17, 1890.
“Wake up . . . lots in the Senate”: Lewis L. Gould, The Most Exclusive Club: A History of the Modern United States Senate (New York: Basic Books, 2005), p. 10.
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