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“Though he was…our own together”: Ibid., 6, 20, 29–30.

“Poor fellow!”: H. W. Brands,
TR: The Last Romantic
(1997), 259.

“I simply refused…dance with him”: ER, 1:34, 49, 51.

“To keep my uncles out”: Cook, 1:126, 517n.

“It was quite easy…into thinking”: ER, 1:55, 70–71.

“I am going to get off…deeply ashamed”: Ibid., 81–84, 100–01.

“All the little girls”: Ibid., 108–09.

Alice Sohier: Ward,
Before the Trumpet,
254.

“I never want”: From ER, Nov. 24, 1903, FDRL.

“Franklin gave me”: Sara Roosevelt diary, Nov. 26, 1903, FDRL.

“Dearest Cousin Sally”: ER to Sara Roosevelt, Dec. 2, 1903.

“Dearest Mama”: To Sara Roosevelt, Dec. 4, 1903.

“They were a clan”: ER, 1:122.

“She was always”: Michael Teague,
Mrs. L: Conversations with Alice Roosevelt Longworth
(1981), 154.

“I do…in the family”: Cook, 1:166–67.

“Those closest”: ER, 1:126.

CHAPTER
3

“You will never”: Horace Coon,
Columbia, Colossus on the Hudson
(1947), 99.

“FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT”: Freidel, 1:82.

“I went to a big law office”: Remarks, Nov. 3, 1941.

“I would be glad to settle”: Earle Looker,
This Man Roosevelt
(1932), 51–52.

“Dearest Mama”: ER to Sara Roosevelt, June 7, 1905.

“We are so glad”: To Sara Roosevelt, July 22, 1905.

“They write books”: To Sara Roosevelt, Aug. 30, 1905.

“We were ushered”: To Sara Roosevelt, June 16, 1905.

“Everyone is talking”: To Sara Roosevelt, Sept. 7, 1905.

“It was quite a relief…in a little while”: ER, 1:139, 142–46, 152–53.

“They always told me…I was behaving”: Ibid., 143, 147–48, 165.

CHAPTER
4

“I remember him”: Freidel, 1:86.

“I answered”: Theodore Roosevelt,
An Autobiography
(1913), 63.

“Consider the problem”: H. W. Brands,
The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s
(1995), 108–09.

“I thank you”:
Poughkeepsie Daily Eagle,
Oct. 7, 1910, in
Personal Letters,
2:154.

“Humboldt the great traveler”: Speech notes,
Personal Letters,
2:157.

“I’m not Teddy”: Freidel, 1:93.

“His patronymic”:
New York Times,
Jan. 22, 1911.

“Well, if we’ve caught”: Lindley, 78.

“The men arrived”: ER, 1:174–76.

“Leader?”:
New York Times,
Jan. 22, 1911.

“Franklin D. Roosevelt…United States Senator”: Freidel, 1:97, 106–07.

“The Sheehan men”:
New York Times,
Jan. 30, 1911.

“delightful smile”: Lindley, 92.

“My husband”: ER, 1:174–75.

“Mr. Sheehan”: Freidel, 1:109.

“We have followed”: Ibid., 115.

“I have just come”:
New York Times,
April 2, 1911.

CHAPTER
5

“As regards”: Brands,
TR,
792.

“We stand”: Ibid., 719.

“By God”: Michael Kazin,
A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan
(2006), 189.

“praying for Clark”: Freidel, 1:144.

“Wilson nominated”: To ER, July 2, 1912.

“In imbecility”:
New York Times,
July 30, 1912.

“They refer to us”: Freidel, 1:144.

“Combinations in industry”: Theodore Roosevelt,
Social Justice and Popular Rule
(1974 reprint of vol. 19 of Memorial Edition of
The Works of Theodore Roosevelt
), 18.

“The inventive genius”: H. W. Brands,
Woodrow Wilson
(2003), 21–22.

“No one could understand”: ER, 1:190–91.

“one of the four ugliest”: Lash, 178.

“gnome-like”: ER, 1:192.

“If you can connect me”: Lash, 177.

“As I have pledged…the Murphy ring”: Freidel, 1:151.

“My husband was reelected”: ER, 1:193.

CHAPTER
6

“As I entered”: Josephus Daniels,
The Wilson Era: The Years of Peace, 1910–1917
(1944), 124.

“In the Navy Department”: Ibid., 119.

“Daniels was one”: Lindley, 117–18.

“He was in a gay mood…no such ambition”: Daniels,
Wilson Era: Years of Peace,
124–29.

to cut the board’s request: William J. Williams, “Josephus Daniels and the U.S. Navy’s Shipbuilding Program during World War I,”
Journal of Military History,
60 (Jan. 1996), 9.

“Invasion is not”: Lindley, 120.

“Dreadnoughts”: Freidel, 1:227.

“It was an impressive”:
New York Times,
March 17, 1914.

“I had not been”: Campaign address, Oct. 30, 1928,
Public Papers,
1:60–61.

“Take what is offered”: Freidel, 1:203.

“We did not have”: Campaign address, Oct. 30, 1928,
Public Papers,
1:61.

CHAPTER
7

“He was pointed out”: Jonathan Daniels,
The End of Innocence
(1954), 22.

“The progress of evolution”: Henry Adams,
The Education of Henry Adams
(1999 ed.), 224.

“pure act”: Brands,
TR,
419.

“Mr. Adams”: ER, 1:237.

“I do hope”: From TR, March 18, 1913,
The Letters of Theodore Roosevelt,
ed. Elting Morison and John M. Blum (1951–54), 7:714.

“You can do…Assistant Secretary of the Navy”: ER, 1:196.

“I have never had”: To ER, July 29, 1913.

“Unlike most…his business”: William F. Halsey and J. Bryan III,
Admiral Halsey’s Story
(1947), 18.

“Although they didn’t”: Teague,
Mrs. L,
158.

“Remember for Nick’s sake”: Betty Boyd Caroli,
The Roosevelt Women
(1998), 408.

“I was perfectly certain”: ER, 1:206.

“All I remember about Harding”: Roosevelt and Shalett, 71–72.

“I knew him…of his wife”: William Phillips,
Ventures in Diplomacy
(1952), 68–70.

“My judgment”: From Wilson, April 1, 1914,
The Papers of Woodrow Wilson,
ed. Arthur S. Link (1966–92), 29:392.

“To repeat”:
New York Times,
July 24, 1914.

“My senses”: Freidel, 1:183.

Roosevelt told Josephus Daniels:
Wilson Era: Years of Peace,
31.

“I am a regular organization Democrat”:
New York Times,
Sept. 21, 1914.

“Will make an active campaign”: Ibid., Oct. 26, 1914.

CHAPTER
8

“Good morning…in America”: Roosevelt and Brough, 8–11.

“She and Mother”: Ibid., 68.

“I will wire you”: To ER, July 19, 1914.

“it may be impossible”: To ER, July 22, 1914.

“an ordeal to be borne”: Cook, 1:536.

“I believe”: Ralph G. Martin,
Cissy
(1979), 189.

“Everybody called”: Carol Felsenthal,
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
(1988), 147.

“Lucy was beautiful”: Teague,
Mrs. L,
157–58.

“vague hostility…cold war”: Roosevelt and Brough, 6, 79, 115.

“You never answer”: From ER, July 28, 1917, FDRL.

“She is evidently”: From ER, Sept. 8, 1917, FDRL.

“I
count
on seeing you”: From ER, Aug. 15, 1917, FDRL.

“There was no mystery”: Roosevelt and Brough, 86.

“I miss you”: ER to Sara Roosevelt, Jan. 22, 1918, FDRL.

“I wish you were always here”: ER to Sara Roosevelt, undated (Feb. 1918), FDRL.

CHAPTER
9

“It would be the irony of fate”: Brands,
Woodrow Wilson,
42.

“impartial in thought”: Wilson message, Aug. 19, 1914.

“no triumph of peace”: Brands,
TR,
317.

“Now, Sara”: Theodore Roosevelt to Sara Roosevelt, Oct. 2, 1914,
Letters of Theodore Roosevelt,
8:821.

“That is to say”: FDR statement, Oct. 21, 1914,
New York Times,
Oct. 22, 1914.

“The enclosed”: To ER, undated (Oct. 1914),
Personal Letters,
2:256–57.

“Mr. Roosevelt”: Lindley, 124.

“really great fun”: To Sara Roosevelt, undated (Dec. 17, 1914),
Personal Letters,
2:260–67.

“A battleship…the War College”: FDR testimony, Dec. 16, 1914,
New York Times,
Dec. 17, 1914.

“The result”: Lansing to Wilson, Sept. 6, 1915,
Papers of Wilson.

“There is such a thing”: Wilson address, May 10, 1915,
Papers of Wilson.

“unpardonable offense”: Brands,
Wilson,
61–62.

“Today Sir C.”: To ER, undated (early 1915),
Personal Letters,
2:266–67.

“These are the hectic days”: To ER, undated (June 10, 1915),
Personal Letters,
2:270–71.

“I wanted to tell you”: To Wilson, June 9, 1915,
Papers of Wilson.

“touched me very much”: From Wilson, June 14, 1915,
Papers of Wilson.

“Every minute”: Speech to Navy League, April 13, 1916, FDRL.

“The most extraordinary day”: To ER, Nov. 8, 1916.

“Another day”: To ER, Nov. 9, 1916.

“I want to do right”: Daniels,
Cabinet Diaries,
118.

“The world”: Wilson address, April 2, 1917.

“Franklin Roosevelt should”: Wood quoted in Langdon Marvin to FDR, July 17, 1917, FDRL.

“Black care”: Sarah Lyons Watts,
Rough Rider in the White House: Theodore Roosevelt and the Politics of Desire
(2003), 56.

CHAPTER
10

“How much of that sort of junk”: Daniels,
Cabinet Diaries,
118–21.

“pet hobby”: FDR report, Oct. 16, 1918, FDRL.

“Project has previously”: Josephus Daniels,
Our Navy at War
(1922), 131.

“I am very sorry”: To Wilson, Oct. 29, 1917, with enclosed memo to Daniels, Oct. 29, 1917,
Papers of Wilson,
44:464–66.

“I told W. W.”: Daniels,
Cabinet Diaries,
228–29.

“exceedingly important”: Ibid., 307.

“If Roosevelt had not been there”: Lindley, 160.

“In the estimation”: H. C. Peterson and Gilbert C. Fite,
Opponents of War
(1957), 22.

“Every reform”: Ray Stannard Baker, ed.,
Woodrow Wilson: Life and Letters
(1927–39), 5:77.

“selection from a nation”: Peterson and Fite,
Opponents of War,
23.

“white heat”: James R. Mock and Cedric Larson,
Words That Won the War
(1939), 124.

“Making the ten servants”:
New York Times,
July 17, 1917.

“I am proud”: To ER, July 18, 1917.

“I’d like to crawl away”: From ER, July 20, 1917, FDRL.

“The bottom dropped out”: ER to Lash, Oct. 25, 1943, in Lash, 220.

“Always remember”: Teague,
Mrs. L,
158.

“One can be”: Sara Roosevelt to FDR and ER, Oct. 14, 1917.

The children…inferred: Cook, 1:232.

CHAPTER
11

“If you have approved”: Wilson statement, Oct. 19, 1918,
Papers of Wilson.

“a beautifully built young man”: From Camp, July 25, 1917, FDRL.

“Very interesting”: ER to Sara Roosevelt, Jan. 9, 1919.

“The old lion is dead”: Brands,
TR,
811.

“We were shocked”: ER to Sara Roosevelt, Jan. 9, 1919.

“Hail the Champion…or superhuman”: Thomas J. Knock,
To End All Wars: Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World Order
(1992), 194–95.

“I never saw anything”: ER to Sara Roosevelt, Jan. 11, 1919.

“a fait accompli”: FDR to Sara Roosevelt, Jan. 18, 1919.

“This is a big success”: ER to Sara Roosevelt, Jan. 14, 1919.

“The German people”: Ward,
First-Class Temperament,
427.

“The United States…to any man”: ER, 1:289–90.

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