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by Doris Kearns Goodwin


  as reliable, hardworking, and loyal, 557–58

  renomination of, 710–11

  as revenue collector, 135

  “Roosevelt luck” lacking for, 18

  on Roosevelt’s administration as “great crusade,” 14

  schism between TR and, xiii, 530, 650, 663–65, 678, 682–83, 687, 689, 693–717, 725–26, 737, 743–44

  second notification ceremony of, 715–17

  as secretary of war, 38, 385, 390–400, 401, 426–29, 499, 502, 508, 511–15, 557, 574, 667

  seen as overdependent on TR, 548–49, 559–60

  silver anniversary party of, 661–63

  on Sixth District court of appeals, 154, 214–19, 221, 575

  as solicitor general, 11, 14, 132, 143–49, 152, 154, 393, 557, 558, 575

  South Carolina assigned as escort to TR by, 5

  Steffens on, 540

  as superior court judge, 62–63, 101–2, 105–7

  Supreme Court ambitions of, 14, 15, 50, 145, 152, 215, 264–65, 386, 521, 677

  as Supreme Court Chief Justice, 748–49

  Supreme Court position refused by, 386–88, 392, 497–502, 515, 576

  on tariff, 606, 629–30, 632, 649, 658–60

  teaching and deanship at Cincinnati Law School by, 219

  temperament of, 54, 69, 86, 143, 588

  temporary rapprochement between TR and, 653–54

  tension between TR and, 513–14, 556, 561, 610, 620, 645–47, 743–44

  tensions in inner circle of, 604–33

  on TR and Spanish American War, 224

  on TR as presidential candidate, 275, 277

  TR’s agenda pressed by, 570

  as TR’s anointed successor, 11, 517–25, 531–32, 547, 551–56

  on TR’s convention chair defeat, 641–43

  TR’s disillusion with, 635–37

  TR’s friendship with, 13, 16–17, 20, 108, 132, 135–37, 150, 151, 221, 266, 301, 392–93, 394, 400, 502, 517–18, 523, 553–54, 737, 744–45

  at TR’s funeral service, 747–48

  on TR’s 1912 candidacy, 682–83

  on TR’s popularity, 2–3

  on TR’s presidency, 287–88

  TR’s reconciliation with, 743–45, 747

  on TR’s return, 634–35

  in TR’s shadow, 13, 571, 594

  TR’s support for candidacy of, 551–56

  TR’s temperamental differences from, 19, 20, 48–49, 53–54, 69, 132, 136–37, 143, 741

  on TR’s third party, 715

  visit to Rome of, 302–5

  Washington overwhelming to, 107–8

  weight and health of, 13, 19, 21–22, 27, 34, 42, 100, 106, 136, 153, 219–20, 269, 271, 276, 290, 300–301, 390, 391–92, 395, 427, 434, 502, 503, 508, 551, 569, 573–74, 666, 749

  Western tours of, 599–604, 665–67

  Wilson and, 728, 739

  on women’s equality, 29, 96, 98

  workers’ rights and, 102–3

  as Yale class orator, 32

  on Yale Corporation, 219, 513, 647

  Taft, William Howard, speeches of, 219, 524, 666

  Boston primary, 693–95

  first State of the Union address, 588

  inaugural address of, 594, 569–70

  at Lincoln University, 18

  maiden political, 55

  Maine Republican State Committee speech of, 503–4

  in 1904 campaign, 410–12

  Notification Day, 547–51, 559

  Philippines inaugural address of, 276

  pro-Herrick speech by, 434–35

  on tariff, 601–3

  at Villanova, 18, 637

  Taft School, 104–5, 149, 392, 414, 561, 729

  “Tale of Two Cities, A” (Steffens), 381–83

  Tammany Hall, 68–69, 79, 156, 281, 325, 363, 367, 380, 713, 723

  Democrats and, 237

  police force and, 200, 206–7, 213, 242

  Sunday closing laws and, 209, 211

  Tarbell, Esther, 172, 176

  Tarbell, Franklin, 171–72, 330, 438

  Tarbell, Ida, xii, 170–79, 193, 195, 234, 324, 365, 383, 427, 458, 467, 474, 480, 487, 488, 489, 530, 617, 746–47, 749, 750

  at American, 490–92, 494–96, 584

  childhood and education of, 171–73, 181

  as desk editor of McClure’s, 178

  insurgents supported by, 629

  on Lincoln, 168, 177–78, 179, 225, 330, 492

  McClure managed by, 331, 332

  at McClure’s, 176–79, 180, 188, 189, 196, 201, 227, 358–59, 495

  on McClure’s reckless behavior, 470–79

  McClure’s relationship with, 331, 332–33, 336, 469–70, 496

  on Napoleon, 176–77, 225, 330

  as New Woman, 339

  in Paris, 170, 173–76

  resignation from McClure’s by, 478–80, 487–88

  satire of, 486

  and Spanish-American War, 223–25, 231

  as stabilizing force, 372, 468, 495

  on Standard Oil, 171, 324, 326, 330–43, 346–47, 358, 363, 436, 438–42, 445, 468, 469

  Taft and, 589, 629–30

  on tariff, 492, 495–96, 584–85, 590–92

  TR and, 224, 539–40, 723

  on trusts, 254–55

  tariff, 147, 173, 293, 346, 350, 503, 629–30, 632, 658–60, 736

  commission on, 598

  consumer prices and, 309

  on Cuban exports, 307

  large corporations and, 548

  and 1912 election, 649, 731

  on Philippine imports, 38, 302, 307, 397–98, 414, 429, 498, 503, 507, 517, 526, 594, 598

  special session of Congress regarding, 582, 584, 588, 591–99

  Taft on, 503–4, 547, 583–84, 586–87, 590–604

  Tarbell on, 492, 495–96

  TR on, 309–10, 406, 539–40, 541–42

  Tariff Board, 638

  “Tariff in Our Times, The” (Tarbell), 495–96

  Tarkington, Booth, 228

  Tavera, Pardo de, 429

  Tawney, James, 565, 587, 601–3

  taxes:

  corporate, 19, 246–49, 253, 258, 368, 594, 598, 603, 736

  income, 193, 517, 548, 594–95, 598, 644, 679, 741

  inheritance, 517, 564, 570, 594, 644, 721

  in Philippines, 267, 270, 598

  single, 183

  Teddy bears, 9–10, 320–21, 544, 559, 702

  telegraphs, 233, 246, 329, 555–56, 564

  telephones, 246, 564

  Telluride, Colo., 402, 405

  Tenement House Commission, 229

  tenements, 77–78, 209, 213, 325

  sweatshops in, 244

  Tennessee, 152, 267, 309, 566

  Tennessee Club, 214

  Tennessee Coal and Iron Company (TC&I), 529, 667–68

  Terrell, Mary Church, 513

  Terrell, Scurry, 732–33

  Texas, 42, 511, 572, 699, 705, 712

  Rough Riders reunion in, 425

  Texas (horse), 240

  Thayer, James, 219

  Thayer, Marian, 692

  Thayer, William Roscoe, 681–82

  “There’ll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight,” 262, 274

  Thompson, Hugh S., 140

  Thompson, Winifred, 149

  Thucydides, 124

  Tidal Basin, public park in, 16

  Tilden, Samuel, 242

  Tillman, Benjamin, 321, 454–58, 531, 565, 572

  Times (London), 697

  Tingley, Jeremiah, 172, 181

  Titanic, RMS, 690–93, 695

  Titusville, Penn., 171, 176, 330, 332, 335, 337, 438

  Titusville High School, 172

  tobacco, 77–78, 291, 307, 397, 414, 498, 526

  Tobacco Trust, 668

  Tokyo, 433, 578

  Toledo, Ohio, 214, 368, 381, 543, 684

  Tolstoy, Leo, 124, 159, 355

  Tomlin, Miss, 58

  Topeka, Kans., 251

  Torrey, D
elia, 22–25, 388, 532, 666, 696

  Alphonso’s correspondence with, 27, 32, 54–55

  Torrey, Louise, see Taft, Louise Torrey

  Torrey, Samuel, 22

  Torrey, Susan Waters, 22

  trade unions, 243–44, 354

  Tranquillity (Roosevelt summer home), 4, 37, 112, 118

  transportation rates, 173

  Treasury Department, U.S., 135, 528

  Trevelyan, George Otto, 367, 421, 429, 505, 542

  Trinity Church, 325

  Trollope, Anthony, 95, 190

  Troy, N.Y., 104

  Trust Company of America, 528

  trusts, 218, 253, 254–55, 256, 291, 293, 295, 296, 306–8, 309, 322, 324, 326–27, 330, 345, 350, 386, 398–400, 406, 407–8, 440–41, 442, 445, 459, 476, 503, 539–40, 594, 670

  labor racketeering and, 362

  “Trust’s New Tool—The Labor Boss, The” (Baker), 362–64

  Tulsa, Okla., 429

  Turner, Charles H., 370

  Turner, Frederick Jackson, 66, 158

  Turner, George Kibbe, 170, 488, 632, 656

  Twain, Mark, see Clemens, Samuel

  “Tweed Days in St. Louis” (Steffens and Wetmore), 371

  Twentieth Century Club, 339

  Twenty-first Assembly district, New York, 7

  Tyler, Daniel, IV, 114–15, 121

  Tyler, Emily Lee, 114–15

  Tyndall, John, 170

  typhoid, 81, 83

  Tyree, Frank, 7

  unemployment, 159, 169, 184, 185

  Union, 35

  Union Army, 36

  Union Club, 317

  unionization, 158–59

  Union League Club, 36, 208, 446–47, 743–44

  Union Pacific Railway, 300, 380, 527

  Union Square, 4, 34, 118

  Union Station, 17, 314, 604

  United Mine Workers (UMW), 311–19

  United Press, 556, 609

  United Shoe Company, 585

  United States, 302

  Bering Sea fishing rights and, 148

  closing of the frontier in, 158

  as leading industrial power, 31

  separation of church and state in, 303

  in War of 1812, 65

  United States Steel Corporation, 291, 297–99, 529

  Taft’s anti-trust suit against, 667–68

  University of Michigan Law School, 182–83

  Utah, 300, 739

  Valparaiso, Ind., 161

  Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 31, 297, 363, 481

  as chair of TR’s reception, 6–7

  Vanderbilt, William, 481

  Van der Stucken, Frank, 220

  Van Sant, Samuel, 400

  Van Wyck, Augustus, 237

  Venezuela, 426, 428

  Venice, 128, 331

  Vermont, 23, 84, 308, 411–12, 413, 739

  Versailles Peace Conference, 746, 747

  veto power, 731

  Vienna, 57, 94

  Villanova, Pa., 17–18, 637

  Voight v. Baltimore, 217

  Vorys, Arthur, 520

  Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway Co. v. Illinois, 192

  Wabash Railroad, 217

  Wadsworth, James, 463–64

  wage labor, 445, 724

  wages, 158, 244, 406, 577, 721, 731, 736

  cost of living and, 584

  cuts in, 186

  Wagner, Richard, 95

  Walbridge, Cyrus P., 377

  Walcott, Charles, 353, 359–60, 362

  Waldron, George, 226

  Wallace, John, 428

  Wallace, William, 139

  Wall Street, 71, 192, 199, 280, 292, 297, 299, 316, 335, 364, 399, 444, 527, 530, 649, 676

  political influence of, 682, 723, 724, 731

  Wall Street Journal, 344, 364, 403–4, 440, 536–37, 551

  Walnut Hills, 94, 97

  Wanamaker, John, 139–41

  War College, 546

  War Department, U.S., 223–24, 394, 395, 427, 511, 513, 543, 546

  Warren, Ohio, 413

  Washburn, Charles, 43

  Washington, Booker T., 18, 321, 380, 513

  Washington, D.C., 11, 17, 27, 51, 83, 96, 100, 105, 149, 177, 178, 249, 266, 277, 281, 282, 290, 301–2, 319, 333, 367, 388, 391–93, 429, 444, 446, 448, 481, 495–96, 499, 512, 528, 534, 543, 559, 566, 582, 596, 607, 612, 621, 628, 631, 637, 656, 688, 690, 724, 740

  cherry trees in, 578–79

  Coxey’s Army march on, 184–85

  Edith in, 130–33, 141–42, 241

  Nellie’s ambitions for, 88–90, 96, 101–2, 106–8, 132–33, 147–48, 152–53, 578

  New York compared to, 134–35

  summertime in, 150, 223

  Tafts’ D Street house in, 414

  TR on, 134

  Washington, George, 580, 694

  Washington Bee, 515

  Washington Evening Star, 9

  Washington Herald, 643

  Washington Nationals, 706

  Washington Post, 45, 140, 156, 339, 343, 378, 409, 449, 457, 519, 748–49

  on Butt’s death, 691

  on coal strike, 318

  on 1908 Republican National Convention, 542, 544

  on 1912 campaign, 683, 688

  on 1912 Republican Convention, 704

  on Taft, 154, 504, 542

  Washington State, 517, 618, 705

  direct primaries in, 699

  Washington State Leavenworth Echo, 658

  Washington Times, 295, 388, 394, 424, 625, 660, 686, 690, 709

  on Taft, 639

  on Tarbell, 339

  on TR’s vice-presidential nomination, 263

  water conservation, 352

  waterpower, 606–10

  Watertown, Conn., 105, 392, 414, 561

  Water Users Association, 359–60

  Watson, James E., 557, 705

  Ways and Means Committee, House, 432

  wealth:

  arrogance of, 386

  concentration of, 31, 157, 232, 459, 467

  corporate, 11

  distribution of, 11, 173, 250, 280, 406, 540

  gap between rich and poor, 11, 35, 158, 188, 195, 276, 308, 541, 717, 735

  gospel of, 31

  positive view of, 254

  regulation of, 657

  Wealth Against Commonwealth (Lloyd), 192, 330

  Weaver, James, 193

  Weekly Law Bulletin, 63

  Weld, Minot, 120

  Wellman, Walter, 285, 309, 312, 314, 552, 571

  West, 524

  Bryan’s base in, 407

  development vs. conservation in, 607, 610

  East vs., 605, 736

  farmers in, 191

  irrigation and, 353

  La Follette’s popularity in, 656

  national forest reserves in, 517

  public lands in, 306

  radical candidates in, 193

  railroad regulations in, 454

  Republicans in, 309–10

  Taft’s golfing unpopular in, 552

  Taft’s tour of, 599–604, 665–67

  tariff opposed by, 583, 585, 602

  traditional party leadership defied by, 591

  TR’s popularity in, 262–63, 273, 277, 422

  TR’s speaking tour of, 643–46

  Westbrook, Theodore, 71–74, 85

  West Chester, Pa., 17, 18

  Western Federation of Miners, 402–5

  Western Union, 556

  Westinghouse, 606

  West Point, 114, 204

  West Townsend, Vt., 23

  West Virginia, 309, 343, 714

  Wetmore, Claude H., 371

  “What’s the Matter with Kansas?” (White), 187–88

  Wheelman, 165–66, 476

  “Where Every Penny Counts” (Tarbell), 584

  “Where the Shoe Is Pinched” (Tarbell), 584

  Wherry, Edith, 473–74

  White, Doc, 189–90

  White, Edward, 748

  White, Henry, 505, 684,
740

  White, Mary Ann Hatton, 188, 189–90, 439

  White, Sallie Lindsay, 194, 252

  White, William Allen, xii, 13, 20, 136, 170, 187–95, 350, 439, 467, 474, 477, 530, 746–47

  at American, 490–92, 496, 539, 628–29

  on anti-trust legislation, 344

  on Bull Moose Convention, 719, 723

  childhood and education of, 189–91

  on Democratic National Convention of 1912, 713

  on Folk, 377–78

  on Hanna, 368

  at McClure’s, 188–89, 201

  as newspaper editor, 187

  on 1904 Democratic Convention, 407

  on 1908 Republican Convention, 547

  on 1912 Republican convention, 703, 706

  on patent medicines, 465

  on Phillips, 476

  Platt profiled by, 281–84, 341

  political transformation of, 187, 189, 195

  Populists opposed by, 187–88, 193–94

  as progressive, 656

  Progressive Party supported by, 722–23

  on railroad regulations, 456, 457–58

  reading by, 190

  on Republican National Convention of 1904, 405–6

  scorecard for 57th Congress by, 547

  and Spanish American War, 225, 226

  on Standard Oil, 437

  on state machines, 291

  on Steffens, 374–75

  Taft and, 539, 589, 630, 666

  tariff and, 591

  TR and, 249–53, 281, 518, 539, 643, 652, 655, 673

  on TR and coal strike, 318–19

  on TR’s 1904 inauguration, 425

  White House, 19, 67, 108, 135, 260, 280, 283–84, 293, 345, 353, 360, 377, 378, 407, 420, 461, 484, 509, 513, 540, 545, 547, 598, 639

  Cleveland’s invitation of TR and Edith to, 155

  Edith as manager of, 5, 287, 319–20, 566

  Lincoln Bedroom in, 567

  Nellie’s childhood visit to, 89–90

  Nellie’s entertaining at, 578–80

  renovations to, 306, 319

  Taft’s cabinet party in, 648–49

  Taft’s invitations to TR’s, 395

  Taft’s open house policy for, 572–73

  Taft’s second Notification Ceremony in, 715–16

  Taft welcomed by Harrison’s, 145–47

  TR’s final weeks in, 565–68

  TR snubbed by Harrison’s, 141

  West Wing of, 306, 320, 653

  Whitlock, Brand, 543

  Whitman, Walt, 355

  Wickersham, George, 580, 612, 614, 616, 623–26, 649, 668–69, 737

  Wiley, Harvey, 464

  Wilkes-Barre, Penn., 355

  Wilkinson, Florence, 469–74, 477

  Willard Hotel, 568

  Williams, Alex “Clubber,” 207–8

  Wilson, Ellen, 739

  Wilson, James, 563, 620

  Wilson, Woodrow, 651, 674, 724, 725, 743, 744

  Baker’s support for, 722

  campaigning by, 727–28, 734, 735

  election of, 738–40

  limited government interest theory of, 730

  New Freedom of, 730–31

 

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