“They will be making”: TR to WHT, Jan. 4, 1909, in LTR, Vol. 6, p. 1458.
“I think I ought”: WHT to TR, Jan. 8, 1909, CPT Papers.
“The President has thought”: WHT to George B. Cortelyou, Jan. 22, 1909, WHTP.
The recipients . . . manner of address: James R. Garfield, Diary, Jan. 27, 1909, Garfield Papers.
“a clean sweep”: Ibid.
“T.R.’s Trusty Aides . . . in the Roosevelt school?”: Cleveland Press, Feb. 11, 1909, clipping in James R. Garfield, Diary, Garfield Papers.
“a little cast down”: AB to Clara, Jan. 30, 1909, in Abbott, ed., Letters of Archie Butt, p. 313.
“They little realize”: AB to Clara, Jan. 30, 1909, in ibid., p. 314.
Taft’s “system may be different”: AB to Clara, Jan. 11, 1909, in ibid., p. 283.
“People have attempted”: WHT to TR, Feb. 25, 1909, TRP.
“How could I but be”: TR to WHT, Feb. 26, 1909, in LTR, Vol. 6, p. 1538.
“renewed appreciation . . . and magnanimity”: WHT to TR, Feb. 25, 1909, TRP.
“Your letter”: TR to WHT, Feb. 26, 1909, in LTR, Vol. 6, p. 1538.
“If I had conscientiously”: TR to George Otto Trevelyan, Nov. 6, 1908, in ibid., p. 1329.
“none of the weariness”: New York Tribune, Dec. 9, 1908.
a sweeping “valedictory message”: See Current Literature (January 1909), p. 14.
“his whole social . . . as voluminous as ever”: New York Tribune, Dec. 9, 1908.
“a fraction . . . the social creation”: Literary Digest, Dec. 19, 1908.
“The danger to American . . . wish to be investigated”: TR, “Eighth Annual Message,” in WTR, Vol. 15, pp. 498, 508, 512, 528.
a “storm of censure”: NYT, Dec. 17, 1908.
“self-respect . . . Pandemonium broke loose”: NYT, Jan. 9, 1909.
Congress took a rare measure: Pringle, Theodore Roosevelt: A Biography, p. 485.
“on the ground”: NYT, Jan. 9, 1909.
“Congress of course feels”: TR to Kermit Roosevelt, Jan. 14, 1909, in LTR, Vol. 6, p. 1475.
“it is a President’s . . . up to the end”: TR to TR, Jr., Jan. 31, 1909, in ibid., pp. 1498–99.
“I have never seen”: AB to Clara, Mar. 2, 1909, in Abbott, ed., Letters of Archie Butt, p. 376.
“believing thoroughly”: AB to his mother, April 8, 1908, in ibid., p. 1.
“his duties with a boyish”: Introduction, in ibid., p. xxiii.
“She is perfectly poised”: AB to his mother, July 27, 1908, in ibid., p. 75.
“ever-softening influence”: Ibid.
“smart element . . . wont to sneer”: AB to his mother, Oct. 19, 1908, in ibid., p. 134.
garish nature of . . . clamored for invitations: Mabel Potter Daggett, “Mrs. Roosevelt: The Woman in the Background,” The Delineator (March 1909), p. 394.
Edith’s Friday evening . . . Pablo Casals: Morris, EKR, p. 236.
“If social affairs”: Daggett, “Mrs. Roosevelt,” The Delineator (March 1909), p. 394.
“Were we living”: AB to Clara, March 2, 1909, in Abbott, ed., Letter of Archie Butt, p. 380.
“The ball rolls . . . every minute”: AB to Clara, Feb. 7, 1909, in ibid., p. 326.
“actually wept as . . . broke down himself”: AB to Clara, Mar. 2, 1909, in ibid., pp. 376–77.
“For the first hour . . . if not a cold, reception”: AB to Clara, Feb. 14, 1909, in ibid., pp. 335–36.
“The papers have made . . . from Oklahoma?”: AB to Clara, Mar. 1, 1909, in ibid., pp. 365–69.
“there was not a dry eye”: Ibid., p. 368; Oelwein [IA] Daily Register, Mar. 2, 1909.
“It was a curious . . . low spirits”: ARL, Crowded Hours, pp. 164–65.
“The dinner would have been”: AB to Clara, Mar. 2, 1909, in Abbott, ed., Letters of Archie Butt, p. 378.
“Mrs. Roosevelt finally arose”: Ibid., p. 380.
“Thought you’d like . . . went to bed!”: New York Sun, Mar. 5, 1909.
“shunted it back”: Current Literature (April 1909), p. 347.
“bound hand and foot”: NYT, Mar. 5, 1909.
Gale winds howled: NYT, Mar. 4, 1909.
“It was really very serious”: HHT, Recollections of Full Years, p. 328.
“The storm will soon . . . got to be President”: Ibid.
“yellowish, slimy” . . . had for three cents: NYT, Mar. 5, 1909.
“stood three deep”: Ibid.
Unfortunately, hardly . . . top of the carriage: Ibid.
the Inaugural Committee debated: Current Literature (April 1909), p. 348.
“If so many spectators”: Ibid.; HHT, Recollections of Full Years, p. 329.
“All exercises will be”: NYT, Mar. 5, 1909.
No longer an open . . . justices, and ambassadors: Ibid.
walking “arm in arm”: Ibid.
“Hale and hearty”: New York Sun, Mar. 5, 1909.
“a slow, distinct voice”: NYT, Mar. 5, 1909.
“For the first time”: Ibid.
“heavy weight of responsibility . . . met popular approval”: William Howard Taft, Presidential Addresses and State Papers of William Howard Taft, from March 4, 1909, to March 4, 1910 (New York: Doubleday, Page, 1910), pp. 53–56.
“The new president . . . each other’s shoulders”: NYT, Mar. 5, 1909.
“God bless you . . . state document”: HHT, Recollections of Full Years, p. 331.
“applauded like mad”: NYT, Mar. 5, 1909.
amid “deafening” cheers: Current Literature (April 1909), p. 349.
“no President’s wife . . . my husband’s side”: HHT, Recollections of Full Years, p. 331.
“a continuous cheer”: NYT, Mar. 5, 1909.
“Three cheers for the first lady”: New York Sun, Mar. 5, 1909.
“That drive was the proudest”: HHT, Recollections of Full Years, p. 332.
an “era of good feelings”: Current Literature (April 1909), p. 347.
“has no enemies . . . and denunciation”: Los Angeles Times, Mar. 4, 1909; New York World, Mar. 5, 1909.
“judicial poise had succeeded”: Dunn, From Harrison to Harding, Vol. 2, p. 103.
decisions would now be made: New York World, Mar. 5, 1909.
“Never did any man”: New York Sun, Mar. 5, 1909.
“I hardly know yet”: AB to Clara, Mar. 11, 1909, in AB, Taft and Roosevelt, Vol. 1, p. 9.
“been living on . . . just the same”: AB to Clara, Mar. 22, 1909, in ibid., p. 27.
Captain Butt had hesitated . . . toward his predecessor: AB to Clara, Nov. 30, 1908, in Abbott, ed., Letters of Archie Butt, p. 207.
“The influence of”: AB to Clara, Jan. 5, 1909, in ibid., p. 273.
“an intellectual woman”: AB to Clara, Nov. 16, 1908, in ibid., p. 173.
“marvelous wit”: AB to Clara, Mar. 16, 1908, in AB, Taft and Roosevelt, Vol. 1, p. 14.
“He is essentially”: AB to Clara, Mar. 21, 1910, in ibid., p. 308.
“list of undesirables . . . stormy attacks”: Oshkosh [WI] Daily Northwestern, April 21, 1909.
“I hope that I shall never”: AB to Clara, April 15, 1909, in AB, Taft and Roosevelt, Vol. 1, p. 308.
“a rule never to pay”: AB to Clara, Mar. 28, 1909, in ibid., p. 32.
“all the warring factions”: Atlanta Constitution, Mar. 27, 1909.
“I am rather proud”: AB to Clara, April 24, 1909, in AB, Taft and Roosevelt, Vol. 1, p. 60.
“I have come to pay”: Edward Lowry, “The White House Now,” Harper’s Bazaar, May 15, 1909.
Taft also lifted . . . on Senator Tillman: NYT, April 25, 1909.
invited dozens . . . White House dinner: AB to Clara, April 24, 1909, in AB, Taft and Roosevelt, Vol. 1, p. 60.
“to pay for favors”: AB to Clara, April 27, 1909, in ibid., p. 63.
“the liveliest interest . . . things going smoothly”: NYT, March 27, 1909.
“It is undoubtedly”: Oshkosh [WI] Daily Northwestern, April
7, 1909.
“the undesirables . . . finding their way”: Lowry, “The White House Now,” Harper’s Bazaar, May 15, 1909.
“pleased as a boy”: AB to Clara, April 8, 1909, in AB, Taft and Roosevelt, Vol. 1, p. 44.
“and a lot of other”: Dunn, From Harrison to Harding, Vol. 2, p. 102.
the “big stick . . . personal appeal”: Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica), April 7, 1909.
“startling contrast”: Lawrence [KS] Daily World, Mar. 30, 1909.
“on their way . . . terminal facilities”: Lowry, “The White House Now,” Harper’s Bazaar, May 15, 1909.
“so much at home”: NYT, April 25, 1909.
“be about three years behind”: AB to Clara, Mar. 10, 1909, in AB, Taft and Roosevelt, Vol. 1, p. 3.
“I am glad . . . want to tell me?”: Lowry, “The White House Now,” Harper’s Bazaar, May 15, 1909.
“There the resemblance . . . around the ellipse”: Ibid.
“devil wagons . . . pacers, and calipers”: Lawrence [KS] Daily World, Mar. 30, 1909.
his Model M . . . Nellie learned to drive: Michael L. Bromley, William Howard Taft and the First Motoring Presidency, 1909–1913 (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2003), pp. 100, 103–4.
“a reporter’s paradise”: Juergens, “Theodore Roosevelt and the Press,” Daedalus (Fall 1982), p. 114.
“No president ever lived”: James E. Pollard, The Presidents and the Press (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1947), p. 583.
“he made the White House”: Juergens, “Theodore Roosevelt and the Press,” Daedalus (Fall 1982), p. 120.
“There will be some one”: Gustav J. Karger, “Memorandum #3,” Mar. 1, 1909, p. 25, Taft-Karger MSS, CMC.
“It was a favorite . . . a good scout”: Davis, Released for Publication, p. 94.
“casual remarks . . . necessity of care”: Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica), April 7, 1909.
“the big, good-humored”: Delbert Clark, Washington Dateline (New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1941), p. 58.
“his own atmosphere . . . hearts to him”: AB to Clara, April 27, 1909, in AB, Taft and Roosevelt, Vol. 1, p. 68.
“Roosevelt made good”: Lawrence [KS] Daily World, Mar. 30, 1909.
“Take it all and all”: Lowry, “The White House Now,” Harper’s Bazaar, May 15, 1909.
“a fish out of water”: WHT to Henry A. Morrill, Dec. 2, 1908, Pringle Papers.
“I am no . . . Circuit Court bench”: L. P. Winter, “Mr. Taft’s Visit to the South,” The Independent, Oct. 9, 1902, p. 178.
“tact and diplomacy . . . the responsibilities”: Syracuse [NY] Herald, Mar. 12, 1909.
“formidable” challenges: WHT to Henry A. Morrill, Dec. 2, 1908, Pringle Papers.
“like that of two men . . . most judicial attitude”: George Griswold Hill, “The Wife of the New President,” Ladies’ Home Journal (March 1909), p. 6.
Article after article . . . the Philippines: Milford [IA] Mail, July 16, 1908.
“Yes . . . it is true”: Lima [OH] Daily News, Nov. 9, 1909.
Nellie’s “judgment prevailed”: Milford [IA] Mail, July 16, 1908.
“Indeed, I do”: Des Moines Capital, Nov. 13, 1908.
“Few women have gone”: NYT, Nov. 15, 1909.
As the governor general’s wife: Hill, “The Wife of the New President,” Ladies’ Home Journal, Mar. 1909, p. 6.
“You make me feel”: Oakland [CA] Tribune, Sept. 20, 1908.
“never at a loss”: New York Tribune, May 31, 1908.
“Never within the recollection”: Omaha [NE] Daily Bee, Mar. 14, 1909.
“to keep up so . . . daily papers”: Ada [OK] Evening News, March 23, 1909.
“impressed . . . cloak of composure”: Hill, “The Wife of the New President,” Ladies’ Home Journal, Mar. 1909, p. 6.
“Her smile has”: NYT, Nov. 15, 1908.
“a public personage . . . private individual”: Syracuse [NY] Herald, Mar. 12, 1909.
“a woman’s name . . . the least known”: Daggett, “Mrs. Roosevelt: The Woman in the Background,” The Delineator (March 1909), p. 393.
to become honorary chair: Mrs. John Hays Hammond, “The Woman’s Welfare Department of the National Civic Federation,” in Henry R. Mussey, ed., Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science in the City of New York (New York: Columbia University Press, 1912), Vol. 2, p. 99.
“a commanding lead”: Ada [OK] Evening News, Mar. 23, 1909.
controversial programs to improve: Anthony, Nellie Taft, p. 250.
At the annual meeting . . . police stations: New York Sun, Dec. 15, 1908.
“She plainly showed”: Ada [OK] Evening News, Mar. 23, 1909.
“in animated conversation”: NYT, Dec. 16, 1908.
“make a fine . . . First Lady”: AB to [unknown] [n.d.], AB Letters.
“The woman’s voice”: Des Moines Capital, Nov. 13, 1908.
“makes a girl . . . full college course”: Washington Post, May 5, 1907.
“the distinct advantages”: Hill, “The Wife of the New President,” Ladies’ Home Journal, Mar. 1909, p. 6; Washington Post, June 24, 1908.
“endeared herself”: Ada [OK] Evening News, Mar. 23, 1909.
“on a plane”: NYT, Mar. 14, 1909.
the “real social . . . art, statesmanship”: Washington Post, Nov. 14, 1908.
“is more beautifully”: Washington Post, Mar. 9, 1909.
“as absurd . . . wealth in our land”: Washington Post, Mar. 14, 1909.
“one of the most famous”: Hamilton [OH] Evening Journal, April 9, 1909.
She enlisted . . . comfortable benches: AB to Clara, April 13, 1909, in AB, Taft and Roosevelt, Vol. 1, pp. 51–52; Kansas City Star, May 16, 1909.
“both the soil and climate”: HHT, Recollections of a Full Life, p. 362.
when her plans . . . to Washington: AB, “1909 Social Diary of Archibald Willingham Butt,” WHTP.
“Potomac Park . . . every type of carriage”: New York Sun, April 18, 1909.
“every walk of life”: Washington Times, April 18, 1909.
bowed “right and left”: New York Tribune, April 18, 1909.
“Everybody saw . . . special character”: HHT, Recollections of a Full Life, p. 362.
“very strong liking”: Ibid., p. 365.
“short coats, flannel trousers”: Syracuse [NY] Herald, May 15, 1909.
“bright colored parasols”: HHT, Recollections of a Full Life, p. 368.
“roam at will”: Washington Herald, May 15, 1909.
“are as informal . . . seen in Washington”: Kansas City Star, May 16, 1909.
“It was a difficult thing”: AB to Clara, May 12, 1909, in AB, Taft and Roosevelt, Vol. 1, p. 86.
“She possesses a nature”: AB to Clara, April 13, 1909, in ibid., p. 54.
“The complete social”: Kansas City Star, May 16, 1909.
“In the ten weeks”: NYT, May 19, 1909.
On May 17 . . . President Washington’s home: AB to Clara, May 17, 1909, in AB, Taft and Roosevelt, Vol. 1, p. 87.
Nellie was talking . . . and collapsed: Lewis L. Gould, Helen Taft: Our Musical First Lady (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2010), p. 51.
“seemed to revive . . . shown on a man’s face”: AB to Clara, May 17, 1909, in AB, Taft and Roosevelt, Vol. 1, p. 88.
“a lesion in the brain . . . in the brain”: WHT to Robert Taft, May 18, 1909, WHTP.
With extended rest . . . symptoms might disappear: AB to Clara, May 18, 1909, in AB, Taft and Roosevelt, Vol. 1, p. 92.
“in the face . . . like a knife”: AB to Clara, May 17, 1909, in ibid., pp. 89–90.
“Her old will”: AB to Clara, May 18, 1909, in ibid., pp. 91–92.
partial “control of her right arm”: WHT to Robert Taft, May 18, 1909, WHTP.
“no cause for alarm . . . nervous attack”: NYT, May 18, 1909.
“ceaseless and strenuous . . . went to pieces”: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, June 18, 1909.
what Taft later descr
ibed as aphasia: WHT to TR, May 26, 1910, TRP.
“She only comes into”: AB to Clara, June 1, 1909, in AB, Taft and Roosevelt, Vol. 1, p. 108.
she remained unable to project: WHT to Horace Taft, May 28, 1909, WHTP.
“repeat almost anything”: Helen Taft Manning to Robert A. Taft, May [n.d.], 1909, WHTP.
“merely a question of time”: Ibid.
Taft mobilized . . . to repeat the same passages: WHT to Frances Taft Edwards, June 25, 1909, WHTP.
“to say the opposite”: Seth Taft, Going Like 80: A Biography of Charles P. Taft II (private printing, 2004). Presented to the author by Frances and Seth Taft.
“She gets pretty depressed”: Helen Taft Manning to Robert A. Taft, June [n.d.], 1909, WHTP.
Eventually, the first lady . . . particular impediment: AB to Clara, Jan. 2, 1910, AB Letters.
“scores of times . . . ‘now try it again’ ”: Elizabeth Jaffray, Secrets of the White House (New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corp., 1927), p. 25.
“No one knows”: AB to Clara, [Easter] 1909, in AB, Taft and Roosevelt, Vol. 1, p. 313.
acknowledge “the tragedy”: AB to Clara, May 17, 1909, in ibid., p. 89.
“a world of misery”: AB to Mrs. John D. Butt, June 8, 1909, in ibid., p. 101.
“simply looking into the distance”: AB to Clara, May 27, 1909, in ibid., p. 99.
“take up their residence”: AB, “1909 Social Diary of Archibald Willingham Butt,” WHTP.
“parklike lawns” . . . the Essex Club: Mabel T. Boardman, “The Summer Capital,” Outlook, Sept. 25, 1909, pp. 176–78.
“take quite a time”: WHT to Mabel Boardman, June 27, 1909, WHTP.
“two months of entire rest”: WHT to Frances Taft Edwards, June 25, 1909, WHTP.
“in seclusion . . . intruders away”: NYT, July 7, 1909.
“The great tug will begin”: WHT to HHT, July 7, 1909, WHTP.
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: A Self-Inflicted Wound
Protectionism had become a central tenet: Jonathan Lurie, William Howard Taft: The Travails of a Progressive Conservative (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012), p. 103.
While Theodore Roosevelt had sympathized . . . inflated prices: RSB, Notebook, Nov. 17, 1907, RSB Papers.
During the final years . . . agrarian region: Stanley D. Solvick, “William Howard Taft and Cannonism,” Wisconsin Magazine of History (Autumn 1964), pp. 51–52.
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