The Bully Pulpit

  “important business . . . suppose that means?”: HHT, Recollections of Full Years, p. 32.

  “He might as well”: Pringle, Life and Times, Vol. 1, p. 160.

  “strongly opposed”: HHT, Recollections of Full Years, p. 32.

  “contrary to our traditions”: Pringle, Life and Times, Vol. 1, p. 160.

  “beside the question . . . governing themselves”: HHT, Recollections of Full Years, pp. 33–34.

  “under the most sacred”: Pringle, Life and Times, Vol. 1, p. 160.

  “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 Roos
evelt: 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.