“keep full of coal . . . not leave the coast”: TR to George Dewey, Feb. 25, 1898, LTR, 1:784.
“Roosevelt, in his precipitate . . . yesterday afternoon”: Long Diary, Feb. 26, 1898, quoted in Knokey, Theodore Roosevelt and the Making of American Leadership, p. 238.
“just recovering . . . moment have taken”: Long Diary, Feb. 26, 1898, quoted in Lorant, The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt, p. 390.
“If it had not been . . . energy and promptness”: Ray Stannard Baker, “TR,” McClure’s (Nov. 1890), p. 23.
“few men would . . . he took it”: Quoted in Knokey, Theodore Roosevelt and the Making of American Leadership, p. 239.
“I really think . . . political career for good”: Winthrop Chanler to Margaret Chanler, April 29, 1898, in Winthrop Chanler and Margaret Chanler, Winthrop Chanler’s Letters (Privately printed, 1951), p. 68.
“more important work . . . Navy Department”: Sewall, Bill Sewall’s Story of Theodore Roosevelt, p. 102.
“lost his head . . . utterly unaware”: Long Diary, April 25, 1898, quoted in Lorant, The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt, p. 293.
“usefulness . . . largely disappear in time of war”: TR to Alexander Lambert, April 1, 1898, LTR, 2:807.
“My work here . . . using the tools”: Sewall, Bill Sewall’s Story of Theodore Roosevelt, p. 103.
“You know what . . . answered that call”: Lawrence Abbott, ed., The Letters of Archie Butt, Personal Aide to President Roosevelt (New York: Doubleday, Page, 1924), p. 146.
“composed exclusively . . . horsemen and marksmen”: Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, p. 613.
“I told [Alger] . . . it into action”: TR, An Autobiography, p. 218.
“Alger considered this . . . I could have performed”: Ibid., p. 219.
“possessed in common . . . thirst for adventure”: Theodore Roosevelt, The Rough Riders (New York: P. F. Collier & Sons, 1899), p. 22.
“swells”: Evan Thomas, The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898 (Boston: Little, Brown, 2014), p. 263.
“fellow feeling”: TR, “Fellow-Feeling,” Jan. 1900, WTR, 13:355.
He assigned Knickerbocker Club members to wash dishes for a New Mexico company: TR to HCL, May 18, 1898, in Lodge, Selections from the Correspondence of Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge, 1:298.
“When we got down . . . slept out in the open”: TR, The Rough Riders, p. 178.
“The men can go in . . . miles of the camp”: Pringle, Theodore Roosevelt, pp. 186–87.
“When things got easier . . . not enforce discipline”: TR, The Rough Riders, pp. 178–79.
“Instead of falling back . . . closer at every volley”: Richard Harding Davis, The Cuban and Puerto Rican Campaigns (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1898), p. 170.
propelled his troops toward the enemy: Ibid., p. 170.
“up and down” . . . bewilderment, and excitement: Edward Marshall, The Story of the Rough Riders, 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry: The Regiment in Camp and on the Battle Field (New York: G. W. Dillingham, 1899), p. 104.
“What to do next I had not an idea”: TR, An Autobiography, p. 242.
“the most magnificent . . . Americans in Cuba”: Marshall, The Story of the Rough Riders, p. 104.
“great day”: Pringle, Theodore Roosevelt, p. 181.
“to see our commanding . . . enjoyable camping trip”: Knokey, Theodore Roosevelt and the Making of American Leadership, p. 341.
“We must advance . . . Come on”: TR, An Autobiography, p. 249.
“No one who saw . . . of the rifle pits”: Arthur Lubow, The Reporter Who Would Be King: A Biography of Richard Harding Davis (New York: Scribner, 1992), p. 185.
“If you don’t wish . . . pass, please”: Richard Harding Davis, The Cuban and Puerto Rican Campaigns, p. 30.
“Up, up they went . . . an awful one”: Riis, Theodore Roosevelt, the Citizen, p. 167.
“shouting for his men to follow”: Thomas, The War Lovers, p. 325.
“cheering and filling . . . with cowboy yells”: Richard Harding Davis, The Cuban and Puerto Rican Campaigns, p. 170.
“had single-handedly crushed the foe”: Lubow, The Reporter Who Would Be King, p. 185.
“You are the next governor of New York!”: Lincoln Steffens, “Theodore Roosevelt, Governor,” McClure’s (May 1899), p. 57.
“In my regiment . . . them as I could”: TR to Theodore (Ted) Roosevelt, Jr., Oct. 4, 1903, container 7, TR Jr. Papers, LC.
“stumped the State . . . towns and cities”: Steffens, “Theodore Roosevelt, Governor,” p. 60.
“electrical, magnetic”: TR to HCL, Oct. 16, 1898, LTR, 2:885.
“that indefinable ‘something’ . . . hill of San Juan”: Commercial Advertiser (Chicago), Oct. 26, 1898.
“I have played it . . . hold another office”: TR to Cecil Spring Rice, Nov. 25, 1898, LTR, 2:888.
“the dignity of the office . . . instead of a green chair”: TR to Seth Low, Aug. 3, 1900, LTR, 2:1372.
“No man resolved . . . personal contention”: AL to Capt. James M. Cutts, Oct. 26, 1863, CW, 6:538.
“Speak softly and carry a big stick”: “Roosevelt ‘Big Stick’ Speech at State Fair,” Sept. 3, 1901, reprinted in Star Tribune (Minneapolis), Sept. 2, 2014.
“continually blusters . . . of that softness”: Ibid.
“gentlemen’s understanding”: TR, An Autobiography, p. 275.
“It was a matter of plain decency”: Ibid., p. 308.
“pay their fair share of the public burden”: TR to Thomas Collier Platt, May 8, 1899, LTR, 2:1004.
“storm of protest”: TR, An Autobiography, p. 308.
“the big mistake”: Thomas Platt to TR, May 6, 1899, TRC.
“right-hand . . . ultimatum”: TR, An Autobiography, p. 300.
“I persistently . . . not be retained”: TR, An Autobiography, p. 291.
“a list of four good machine men”: Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, p. 728.
“yelled and blustered” . . . gotten behind him: TR to Henry Sprague, Jan. 26, 1900, LTR, 2:1141.
“by the simple process . . . disagreeable to him”: TR to Josephine Shaw Lowell, Feb. 20, 1900, LTR, 2:1197.
“I have ever preferred . . . then to not do it”: Louis J. Lang, ed., The Autobiography of Thomas Collier Platt (New York: B. W. Dodge, 1910), pp. 274–75.
“served notice . . . the Vice-Presidency”: Lincoln Steffens, “Governor Roosevelt,” McClure’s (June 1900), p. 112.
“Don’t you know . . . and the White House?”: TR to William McKinley, June 21, 1900, quoted in note, LTR, 2:1337.
“figurehead”: TR to HCL, Feb. 2, 1900, LTR, 2:1160.
“Roosevelt has a big head . . . Vice-President”: TR, quoted in The World (New York), June 18, 1900.
“His enemies triumphed . . . they wanted him”: Riis, Theodore Roosevelt, the Citizen, p. 235.
“useless and empty position”: Edith Carow Roosevelt, quoted in Stacy A. Cordery, Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker (New York: Viking, 2007), p. 40.
“I am not doing any . . . then to do it well”: TR to Taft, March 12, 1901, LTR, 3:11.
“the kaleidoscope will . . . victory will be in order”: TR to Charles Wood, Oct. 23, 1899, LTR, 2:108.
“shot into the presidency”: H. H. Kohlstat, From McKinley to Harding: Personal Recollections of Our Presidents (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1923), p. 101.
CHAPTER SEVEN
Franklin Roosevelt: “Above all, try something”
“like some amazing stag”: Gunther, Roosevelt in Retrospect, p. 201.
“It was the most wonderful athletic feat”: Perkins, Part 2, p. 69, OHRO/CUL.
“bleary with smoke”: Ward, A First-Class Temperament, p. 583.
“I’d never felt . . . way before”: Ibid., p. 5
84.
“Not improving”: Burns and Dunn, The Three Roosevelts, p. 79.
“Death”: Ivan Turgenev, Sketches from a Hunter’s Album, translated with an introduction and notes by Richard Freeborn (New York: Penguin, 1990), p. 227.
“The psychological factor . . . utterly crushing him”: Ward, A First-Class Temperament, p. 604.
“bright and happy”: Ward, Before the Trumpet, p. 145.
“rebellious” body: TR to Walter Camp, Sept. 28, 1921, in Elliott Roosevelt, ed., F.D.R.: His Personal Letters, 1905–1928 (New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1947), p. 530.
“a trapeze-like contraption . . . a goner”: Gunther, Roosevelt in Retrospect, p. 229.
“win . . . happy over little things”: ER, Introduction, in Elliott Roosevelt, ed., F.D.R.: Personal Letters, 1905–1928, p. xviii.
“If you spent two years . . . seem easy!”: Schlesinger, The Crisis of the Old Order, p. 405.
“trial and error”: Gunther, Roosevelt in Retrospect, p. 229.
“a number of mechanical” . . . to reach his library books: Tobin, The Man He Became, p. 171.
“fellow polios”: Ward, A First-Class Temperament, p. 729.
“serving his purposes”: ER, This I Remember, p. 349. Actual wording is “served his purposes.”
“If he didn’t have . . . in his personality”: Perkins, Part 2, p. 463, OHRO/CUL.
“a deep . . . and tenderness”: James Roosevelt and Sidney Schalett, Affectionately FDR: A Son’s Story of a Lonely Man (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1959), p. 313.
“changed everything”: NYT, Nov. 27, 1932.
“He had one loyalty . . . Roosevelt”: Rosenman, Working with Roosevelt, p. 24.
a newspaper designed for a readership of one: Fenster, FDR’s Shadow, p. 200.
“Father was too busy . . . his shoulders”: Ibid., pp. 146–48.
Franklin would be president of the United States: Ibid., p. 147.
“leg muscles responded . . . from about 5 p.m. on”: FDR to Paul Hasbrouck, in Ward, A First-Class Temperament, p. 668.
“Water got me . . . will get me out again!”: Gunther, Roosevelt in Retrospect, p. 229.
other “wife”: Asbell, The F.D.R. Memoirs, p. 249.
Missy gave “Effdee”: Ward, A First-Class Temperament, p. 679.
“sense of nonsense”: Asbell, The F.D.R. Memoirs, p. 245.
“There were days . . . light-hearted façade”: Ibid., p. 241.
“probably said . . . position longer”: Rosenman, Working with Roosevelt, p. 25.
“never hesitating . . . about his work”: Ward, A First-Class Temperament, p. 710.
“By this time . . . the grandstand”: Rosenman, Working with Roosevelt, p. 113.
“He might have . . . able to be”: ER, This I Remember, p. 349.
“I sometimes acted . . . wanted or welcomed”: Ibid.
“We’re not going . . . about that anymore”: Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, OH, FDRL.
“Nothing to worry about . . . Let’s go”: Turnley Walker, Roosevelt and the Warm Springs Story (New York: A. Wyn, 1953), pp. 8–9.
“Nobody knows . . . struggled and struggled”: Fenster, FDR’s Shadow, p. 204.
“like pincers”: James Roosevelt and Schalett, Affectionately FDR, p. 205.
a friend to shake the rostrum: Gunther, Roosevelt in Retrospect, p. 246.
“There was a hush . . . holding their breath”: Perkins, Part 2, p. 325, OHRO/CUL.
“across his face . . . world-encompassing smile”: Hugh Gregory Gallagher, FDR’s Splendid Deception (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1985), p. 62.
“unfortunate habit”: Perkins, The Roosevelt I Knew, p. 11.
“from the great cities . . . political battlefield”: Burns and Dunn, The Three Roosevelts, p. 188.
“doomed to go in company . . . glorious gain”: Henry Reed, ed., William Wordsworth, The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works (Philadelphia.: James Kay, Jun. and Brothers, 1837), p. 339.
“trembling . . . true and vigorous”: Perkins, Part 2, p. 325, OHRO/CUL.
“just went crazy” . . . hour-long demonstration: Ward, A First-Class Temperament, p. 696.
“They howled, yelled . . . crowded galleries”: Morning Herald (Hagerstown, Md.), June 26, 1924.
“I have witnessed . . . display of mental courage”: Syracuse Herald, June 27, 1924.
“the real hero”: Kenneth S. Davis, FDR: The Beckoning of Destiny, 1882–1928 (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1972), p. 757.
“Adversity has lifted . . . sectional prejudices”: Elliott Roosevelt, ed., F.D.R.: His Personal Letters, 1905–1928, note, p. 563.
“been physically . . . I have ever met”: Ward, A First-Class Temperament, p. 699.
“he held out . . . ‘I did it!’ ”: Fenster, FDR’s Shadow, p. 206.
“discovery of a place”: FDR to ER [Oct. 1924], in Elliott Roosevelt, ed., F.D.R.: His Personal Letters, 1905–1928, p. 565.
“Almost everything was falling to pieces”: Donald Scott Carmichael, ed., FDR, Columnist (Chicago: Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1947), p. 9.
“Every morning I spend . . . pool in the world”: Ibid., p. 10.
“There is no question . . . put together”: FDR to James R. Roosevelt, April 30, 1925, Elliott Roosevelt, ed., F.D.R.: His Personal Letters, 1905–1928, p. 580.
“a hunch”: Richard Vervill and John Ditrunno, “FDR, Polio, and the Warm Springs Experiment: Its Impact on Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation,” American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (Jan. 2013), p. 5, http://www.pmrjournal.org/article/S1934-1482(12)01714-5/fulltext.
“a great ‘cure’ . . . be established here”: FDR to SDR, Sunday [Autumn 1924], in Elliott Roosevelt, ed., F.D.R.: His Personal Letters, 1905–1928, p. 568.
“live normal lives . . . science at the time”: Vervill and Ditrunno, “FDR, Polio and the Warm Springs Experiment,” p. 6.
“there were times . . . see it all”: George Whitney Martin, Madame Secretary, Frances Perkins (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1983), p. 435.
decided to invest $200,000: Ward, A First-Class Temperament, p. 715.
to buy the hotel, the springs, and the cottages along with twelve hundred acres of land: Elliott Roosevelt, ed., F.D.R.: His Personal Letters, 1905–1928, p. 609.
“consulting architect . . . landscape engineer”: Ward, A First-Class Temperament, p. 724.
He staffed the facility with great care: Vervill and Ditrunno, “FDR, Polio and the Warm Springs Experiment,” p. 6.
“a research protocol”: Ibid., p. 5.
“Vice-President in charge . . . rolled into one”: Ward, A First-Class Temperament, p. 724.
“there were bridge . . . amateur theatricals”: Gallagher, FDR’s Splendid Deception, p. 57.
“We mustn’t let . . . alive every day”: Walker, Roosevelt and the Warm Springs Story, p. 101.
“a remarkable spirit . . . their self-consciousness”: Ernest K. Lindley, The Roosevelt Revolution: First Phase (London: Victor Gollancz, 1934), p. 214.
“spiritual transformation . . . us by humiliation”: Perkins, Part 2, p. 78, OHRO/CUL.
“purged . . . a deeper philosophy”: Perkins, The Roosevelt I Knew, p. 29.
“It was a place . . . possible”: Vervill and Ditrunno, “FDR, Polio and the Warm Springs Experiment,” p. 8.
As soon as the campaign was done: Lindley, Franklin D. Roosevelt, pp. 16–20.
“When you’re in . . . play the game”: Asbell, The F.D.R. Memoirs, p. 253.
Often speaking fourteen times a day: Richard Thayer Goldberg, The Making of FDR: Triumph over Disability (Cambridge, Mass.: Abt Books, 1981), p. 105.
“It was a dreadful . . . kind of scared”: Perkins, Part 2, p. 559, OHRO/CUL.
“a perilous, uncomfortable”: Frances Perkins, quoted in Burns, Roosevelt, p. 103.
“My God, he’s got nerve”: Perkins, Part 2, p. 559, OHRO/CUL.
“humiliating entrance”: Frances Perkins, quoted in Burns, Roosevelt, p. 103.
“good-natured . . . and drink it”: Perkins, Part 2, p. 564, OHRO/CUL.
Stunned by the devastating loss, Smith retreated: Gunther, Roosevelt in Retrospect, p. 256.
“Al came to see me . . . was nearly finished”: FDR to Adolphus Ragan, April 6, 1938, unsent, LTR, 2:772–73.
“I realized that I’ve got . . . but here I am”: Perkins, The Roosevelt I Knew, p. 52.
“I created you . . . doing to me!”: Gunther, Roosevelt in Retrospect, p. 256.
“ended the close . . . Governor Smith”: ER, This I Remember, p. 51.
“eyes and ears”: Kathleen McLaughlin, “Mrs. Roosevelt Goes Her Way,” NYT, July 5, 1936.
“At first my . . . actually getting that food?”: ER, This I Remember, p. 56.
“educable”: Perkins, Part 2, p. 232, OHRO/CUL.
He filled the Governor’s Mansion: Gallagher, The Splendid Deception, p. 77.
Sam Rosenman: Burns, Roosevelt, p. 101.
“I made up your . . . careful investigation”: Rosenman, Working with Roosevelt, p. 31.
“brain trust”: Graham and Wander, eds., Franklin D. Roosevelt, p. 55.
“The routine was simple”: Raymond Moley, After Seven Years (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1939), p. 20.
“nothing was so important . . . all day for this hour”: Rosenman, Working with Roosevelt, p. 24.
“random talk came . . . into the evening”: Moley, After Seven Years, p. 20.
“was at once . . . and a judge”: Asbell, The F.D.R. Memoirs, p. 86.
“irregularity . . . than was comfortable”: Perkins, The Roosevelt I Knew, p. 89.
“infinitely better . . . the descending spiral”: Ibid., pp. 93–95.
“What was clear . . . immediate activities”: Ibid., p. 89.
“assume leadership . . . for the State of New York”: Rosenman, Working with Roosevelt, p. 49.
“we are trying to construct . . . no one is left out”: Perkins, The Roosevelt I Knew, p. 109.
“What is the State? . . . and well-being”: FDR, “New York State Takes the Lead in the Relief of the Unemployed. A Message Recommending Creation of Relief Administration,” Aug. 28, 1931, PPA, 1:457.