Leadership

by Doris Kearns Goodwin

  “ill wind”: Seward, Seward at Washington as Senator and Secretary of State, p. 141.

  “Our war on . . . languishes”: Entry for Oct. 23, 1862, in Nevins and Thomas, eds., The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Vol. 3, p. 267.

  “such an accursed doctrine”: McClellan letter to his wife, Sept. 25, [1862], in Stephen W. Sears, ed., The Civil War Papers of George C. McClellan: Selected Correspondence, 1860–1865 (New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1989), p. 481.

  “We have lost almost everything”: Oct, 16, 1862, Burlingame, ed., With Lincoln in the White House, p. 89.

  “Somewhat like . . . hurt to laugh”: Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, Vol. 3 (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1943), p. 611.

  Most uncheerful . . . crowded the hotels”: Noah Brooks, Washington in Lincoln’s Time (New York: Century, 1895), p. 44.

  “I began to fear . . . hurt the enemy”: AL, quoted in “25 Sept. 1863, Sunday,” in Burlingame and Ettlinger, eds., Inside Lincoln’s White House, p. 232.

  “a fighting general”: DKG, TOR, p. 485.

  “a slaughter pen”: Noah Brooks, in P. J. Staudenraus, ed., Mr. Lincoln’s Washington: Selections from the Writing of Noah Brooks, Civil War Correspondent (South Brunswick, N.J.: Thomas Yoseloff, 1966), p. 155.

  Rumors spread: James M. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), p. 574.

  “endeavoring to purchase . . . of this country”: AL, “Reply to Serenade in Honor of Emancipation Proclamation,” Sept. 24, 1862, CW, 5:438.

  “more depressed”: Nancy F. Kohen, “Lincoln’s School of Management,” NYT, Jan. 26, 2013.

  “If there is . . . I am in it”: Burlingame, The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln, p. 105.

  “into other channels of thought”: William O. Stoddard, Inside the White House in War Times (Lincoln, Neb.: Bison, 2000), p. 191.

  “He has forgotten . . . it will kill me”: AL, quoted in Schuyler Colfax, The Life and Principles of Abraham Lincoln (Philadelphia: Jas. R. Rodgers, 1865), p. 12.

  “It matters not . . . thought suffices”: Francis Carpenter, quoted in Charles M. Segal, ed., Conversations with Lincoln (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1961), pp. 302–3.

  “literary recreation”: William Kelley, in Rice, ed., Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln by Distinguished Men of His Time, p. 270.

  “neigh of a wild horse”: Carpenter, Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln, p. 51.

  “life preserver”: Isaac N. Arnold, quoted in ibid., p. 150.

  “my heavy eye-lids . . . me to bed”: Burlingame and Ettlinger, eds., Inside Lincoln’s White House, p. 76.

  “for any good excuse for saving a man’s life”: Carpenter, Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln, p. 172.

  “overcome by . . . than his will”: Helen Nicolay, Personal Traits of Abraham Lincoln, p. 280.

  “sleep steals upon him unawares”: John Eaton, Grant, Lincoln, and the Freedman: Reminiscences of the Civil War (New York: Longmans, Green, 1907), p. 180.

  “I go to bed . . . and his friends”: Carpenter, Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln, p. 172.

  “general air of doubt”: NYT, Dec. 27, 1862.

  “Will Lincoln’s . . . Nobody knows”: Entry for Dec. 30, 1862, in Nevins and Thomas, eds., The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Vol. 3, p. 284.

  “chief gem”: AL to Joshua Speed, July 4, 1842, CW, 1:289.

  “My word . . . take it back”: Quoted in George S. Boutwell, Speeches and Papers Relating to the Rebellion and the Overthrow of Slavery (Boston: Little, Brown, 1867), p. 392.

  “Abraham Lincoln . . . confide in his word”: Douglass’ Monthly (Oct. 1862).

  “serene and even . . . were far away”: Brooks, Washington in Lincoln’s Time, p. 42.

  “The dogmas . . . and act anew”: AL, “Annual Message to Congress,” Dec. 1, 1862, CW, 5:537.

  “the considerate judgment . . . Almighty God”: Brooks, in Staudenraus, ed., Mr. Lincoln’s Washington, p. 57.

  “dipped his pen . . . bold, clear, and firm”: Seward, Seward at Washington as Senator and Secretary of State, p. 151.

  “visible shadow . . . sobs and tears”: Frederick Douglass, The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (Mineola, N.Y.: Dover, 2003), p. 255.

  “Glory . . . John Brown”: William S. McFeeley, Frederick Douglass (New York: W. W. Norton, 1995), p. 237.

  “the monstrous doctrine . . . inextinguishable hate”: Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky (Frankfort: John B. Major, 1863), p. 1126.

  “the alarming . . . a fixed thing”: Quoted in entry for Jan. 19, 1862, in Theodore Calvin Pease, and James G. Randall, eds., Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. 1: 1850–1864 (Springfield: Illinois State Historical Library, 1925), p. 616.

  “clamor for . . . leave them”: Ibid., Jan. 26, 1862, p. 620.

  “the number . . . affect the army”: William C. Davis, Lincoln’s Men: How President Lincoln Became Father to an Army and a Nation (New York: Touchstone, 2000), p. 101.

  “Whoever can wait . . . run over by it”: Swett, HI, p. 164.

  “I claim not to . . . controlled me”: AL to Albert G. Hodges, April 4, 1864, CW, 7:281.

  “It is my conviction . . . into his lap!”: Carpenter, Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln, p. 77.

  “this great revolution . . . to defeat the purpose”: Ibid.

  “He always moves . . . struggles with them”: John W. Forney, quoted in “31 December 1863, Thursday,” in Burlingame and Turner, eds., Inside Lincoln’s White House, p. 135.

  “gone too fast and too far”: Brooks, in Staudenraus, ed., Mr. Lincoln’s Washington, p. 138.

  “puts the Administration . . . to the end”: NYT, April 9, 1863.

  “Mr. Weed . . . sent for you”: Thurlow Weed Barnes, ed., Memoir of Thurlow Weed (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1884), pp. 434–35.

  “Read it very slowly”: AL to James C. Conkling, Aug. 27, 1863, CW, 6:414.

  “To be plain . . . in saving the Union”: AL to James C. Conkling, Aug. 26, 1863, CW, 4:407.

  “If they stake . . . must be kept”: Ibid.

  “He cares for us . . . he cares”: Tarbell, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. 3, p. 150.

  “link or cord . . . governing power”: Davis, Lincoln’s Men, p. 130.

  “one of their own”: Ibid., p. 95.

  “What a depth . . . his smile”: Ibid., p. 69.

  “He looks . . . bless Abraham Lincoln”: Ibid., p. 142.

  “A country that is worth . . . a soldiers life”: Ibid., p. 108.

  “If he says . . . Amen”: Ibid., p. 91.

  “never been in favor . . . ready and willing”: Bell Wiley, The Life of Billy Yank (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979), p. 44.

  “You will stand . . . right of citizenship”: Douglass’ Monthly (Aug. 1862).

  “I was never . . . fair play”: Douglass, The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, pp. 784–85.

  “with earnest attention . . . apparent sympathy”: Frederick Douglass, in Rice, ed., Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln by Distinguished Men of His Time, p. 187.

  “In the end . . . as white soldiers”: Ibid., p. 188.

  “never seen a more transparent countenance”: Douglass, The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, p. 485.

  “He treated me . . . will allow him to do”: Douglass, in Rice, ed., Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln by Distinguished Men of His Time, p. 320.

  “I never saw . . . is unsurpassed”: Dudley Taylor Cornish, The Sable Arm: Black Troops in the Union Army, 1861–1865 (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1956), pp. 146–47.

  “You have no . . . done better”: Ibid., pp. 142–43.

  “believe the. . . the rebellion”: AL to James C. Conkling, Aug. 26, 1863, CW, 6:408–9.

  “a mad cry”: Browne, The Every-Day Life of Abraham Lincoln, p. 486.

  “The tide is setting . . . on the sole condition”:
Henry J. Raymond to AL, Aug. 22, 1864, Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, LC.

  “I confess that . . . finish this job”: “The interview between Thad Stevens & Mr. Lincoln as related by Colonel R. M. Hoe,” compiled by John G. Nicolay, container 10, Nicolay Papers.

  “utter ruination”: Nicolay, in Burlingame, ed., With Lincoln in the White House, p. 152.

  “should be damned . . . Emancipation lever”: “Interview with Alexander W. Randall and Joseph T. Mills,” Aug. 19, 1864, CW, 7:507.

  “Glorious news . . . event of the war”: Sept. 3, 1864, in Nevins and Thomas, eds., The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Vol. 3, pp. 480–81.

  “was beyond any possible hope”: Burlingame, Abraham Lincoln, a Life, Vol. 2, p. 668.

  “the ship right. . . capsized it”: Tarbell, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. 3, p. 203.

  “We are as certain . . . the sun shines”: The World (New York), Oct. 14, 1864.

  “would rather be . . . elected without it”: Ida M. Tarbell, A Reporter for Lincoln: Story of Henry E. Wing, Soldier and Newspaperman (New York: Macmillan, 1927), p. 70.

  “is not merely . . . should be maintained”: AL, “Speech to One Hundred Sixty-Sixth Ohio Regiment,” Aug. 22, 1864, CW, 7:512.

  “there was an . . . heard before”: Brooks, Washington in Lincoln’s Time, p. 187.

  “congratulation to the country . . . nobly began”: AL, “Response to a Serenade,” Feb. 1, 1865, CW, 8:254.

  “And to whom . . . to Abraham Lincoln”: Burlingame, Abraham Lincoln, a Life, Vol. 2, p. 749.

  “I have only . . . done it all”: Ibid., p. 751.

  “done nothing . . . will be realized”: Speed, HI, p. 197.

  the “wen”: AL, “Speech at Peoria, Ill.,” Oct. 16, 1854, CW, 2:274.

  “A King’s cure . . . whole thing up”: AL, “Response to a Serenade,” Feb. 1, 1865, CW, 8:254.

  “Fellow citizens . . . hope of earth”: AL, “Annual Message to Congress,” Dec. 1, 1862, CW, 5:537.

  CHAPTER TEN

  Crisis Management: Theodore Roosevelt and the Coal Strike

  “It is a dreadful thing . . . that is all there is about it”: TR to HCL, Sept. 23, 1901, in Lodge, Selections from the Correspondence of Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge, Vol. 1, p. 506.

  “were loyal to their work . . . if they were not”: TR, An Autobiography, p. 350.

  “that madman”: TR to William McKinley, June 21, 1900, quoted in note, LTR, 2:1337.

  “I hope you will be . . . have been to him”: Mark Sullivan, Our Times: The United States, 1900–1925, Vol. 2: America Finding Herself (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1927), p. 392.

  “In this hour of deep . . . honor of the country”: New York Tribune, Sept. 17, 1901.

  “would give a lie to all he had stood for”: Rixey, Bamie, p. 172.

  “to act in every word . . . vote for President”: David S. Barry, Forty Years in Washington (Boston: Little Brown, 1964), p. 268.

  “The infectiousness . . . of average men”: Sullivan, Our Times: America Finding Herself, Vol. 2, p. 399.

  “the most formidable . . . of the country”: Walter Wellman, “The Progress of the World,” American Monthly Review of Reviews (Oct. 1902).

  “the biggest . . . of the year”: Joseph P. McKerns, “The ‘Faces’ of John Mitchell: News Coverage of the Great Anthracite Strike of 1902 in the Regional and National Press,” in The “Great Strike”: Perspectives on the 1902 Anthracite Coal Strike (Easton, Penn.: Canal History & Technology Press, 2002), p. 29.

  “assumed a shape . . . in our time”: TR to Carl Schurz, Dec. 24, 1903, LTR, 3:379–80.

  “the most important . . . United States”: Joseph Gowaskie, “John Mitchell and the Anthracite Strike of 1902,” in The “Great Strike,” p. 129.

  “risk everything . . . great fight”: Robert J. Cornell, The Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902 (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America, 1957), p. 92.

  “a common . . . labor agitator”: Walter Wellman, “The Inside History of the Coal Strike,” Collier’s, Oct. 18, 1902, p. 7.

  “If you stand . . . you will lose”: Cornell, The Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902, p. 94.

  “Who shot our President?”: Lincoln Steffens, “A Labor Leader of Today: John Mitchell and What He Stands For,” McClure’s (Aug. 1902), p. 355.

  “thoroughly awake”: TR to Lodge, Sept. 30. 1902, in Lodge, Selections from the Correspondence of Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge, Vol. 1, p. 535.

  “no earthly . . . dozen years ago”: TR to Marcus Hanna, Sept. 27, 1902, LTR, 3:329–30.

  “two schools . . . against action”: TR, An Autobiography, pp. 362, 365.

  “the steward of the people”: Ibid., p. 357.

  “to do whatever . . . to do it”: Ibid., p. 464.

  “I am slowly . . . provokes reaction”: Riis, Theodore Roosevelt, the Citizen, p. 375.

  “to make special . . . House of Congress”: Carroll D. Wright, “Report to the President on Anthracite Coal Strike” (Nov. 1902), Bulletin: Department of Labor, No. 43, p. 1147. (Hereinafter Wright Report.)

  “all facts . . . present controversy”: Ibid.

  “one of the foremost . . . the world”: Defiance Express, June 27, 1902.

  “The President’s . . . directly involved”: Literary Digest, June 21, 1902, p. 826.

  “a new and untried field”: Riis, Theodore Roosevelt, the Citizen, p. 373.

  “presence there . . . harm than good”: Jonathan Grossman, “The Coal Strike of 1902—Turning Point in U.S. Policy,” Monthly Labor Review, Oct. 10, 1975, p. 23.

  “I cannot afford . . . and unwise”: Richard G. Healey, “Disturbances of the Peace: The Operators’ View of the 1902 Anthracite Coal Strike,” in The “Great Strike,” p. 100.

  “the psychological . . . minds of everyone”: Wright Report, p. 1151.

  “might lead . . . accordance with greater justice”: Ibid., pp. 1166–67.

  “This is an important . . . publishing the report”: Grossman, “The Coal Strike of 1902—Turning Point in U.S. Policy,” p. 23.

  “personal information . . . undignified position”: Philander Knox to TR, Aug. 23, 1902, Theodore Roosevelt Papers. Library of Congress Manuscript Division. http://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/Research/Digital-Library/Record?libID=039143. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University.

  “only here and there . . . entirely exhausted”: Literary Digest, Aug. 9, 1902, p. 152.

  “The labor problem . . . operators did not see”: TR, An Autobiography, pp. 470–72.

  “one of the five richest men in New York”: Nathan Miller, The Roosevelt Chronicles, (New York: Doubleday, 1979), p. 117.

  “but I really . . . variety of kind”: TR to John Hay, July 22, 1902, LTR, 3:300.

  “a good idea . . . by the throat”: TR to William Allen White, Oct. 6, 1902, LTR, 3:343.

  “to try to be . . . from vindictiveness”: AL to John Hay, July 22, 1902, LTR, 3:300.

  “a suspicious . . . scabs”: Edmund Morris, Theodore Rex (New York: Modern Library, 2001), p. 134.

  “Upward of one . . . were fired”: NYT, July 31, 1902.

  “it is expected . . . clubbed to death”: New York Tribune, July 31, 1902.

  “a reign of terror”: Ibid.

  “Once there is . . . want and suffering”: TR to Robert Bacon, Oct. 5, 1902, LTR, 3:340.

  “went fairly wild”: McKerns, “The ‘Faces’ of John Mitchell,” p. 39.

  “The one among . . . your organization”: Morris, Theodore Rex, p. 135.

  “settled down . . . of endurance”: Literary Digest, August 2, 1902.

  “uneasy . . . asked of me”: TR to Philander Chase Knox, Aug. 21, 1902, LTR, 3:323.

  “the second largest corporation in the world”: Ray Stannard Baker, “The Great Northern Pacific Deal,” Collier’s, Nov. 30, 1901.

  “test the validity of the merger”: New York Herald, Feb. 20, 1902.

  “If we have done . . . can fix it up”: Bi
shop, Theodore Roosevelt in His Own Time, Vol. 1, pp. 184–85.

  “a most illuminating . . . rival operator”: Ibid.

  “to serve notice . . . governed these United States”: Owen Wister, Roosevelt: The Story of a Friendship, 1880–1919 (New York: Macmillan, 1930), p. 210.

  “never thought . . . my opinion”: Philander C. Knox to TR, Aug. 23, 1902, Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library, Dickinson State University, http://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/Research/Digital-Library/Record?libID=o39143.

  “patent to anyone . . . diseased mind”: Wright Report, p. 1192.

  “any sort . . . anything else”: Ibid., p. 1212.

  “The booming . . . their holiday clothes”: The Daily Times (New Brunswick, N.J.), Aug. 27, 1902.

  “small towns . . . entire population”: Galveston Daily News, Aug. 24, 1902.

  “to see the President . . . see a circus”: TR to John Hay, Aug. 9, 1903, LTR, 3:549.

  “a square deal . . . rich or poor”: Boston Globe, Aug. 26, 1902.

  “a sympathetic ear . . . more to himself”: Leroy Dorsey, “Reconstituting the American Spirit: Theodore Roosevelt’s Rhetorical Presidency,” PhD diss., Indiana University, 1993, pp. 181–82.

  public sentiment: Allen C. Guelzo, “ ‘Public Sentiment Is Everything’: Abraham Lincoln and the Power of Public Opinion,” in Lucas E. Morel, ed., Lincoln and Liberty: Wisdom for the Ages (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2014), p. 171.

  “We have endured . . . which crushes us”: Little Falls Herald, Sept. 5, 1902.

  “With a crash . . . body into bits”: The World (New York), Sept. 4, 1902.

  “I felt sure . . . would be killed”: Ibid.

  “Gentlemen . . . president’s reception”: The World (New York), Sept. 25, 1902.

  “I do not have . . . were on two legs”: TR to Orville Platt, Oct. 2, 1902, LTR, 3:335.

  “I had as yet . . . in the matter”: TR to Winthrop Murray Crane, Oct. 22, 1902, LTR, 3:360.

  “I knew I might . . . to try anything”: TR to Carl Schurz, Dec. 24, 1903, LTR, 3:679.

  “I cannot . . . conditions continue”: Telegram from Seth Low to TR, Theodore Roosevelt Papers. Library of Congress Manuscript Division. http://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/Research/Digital-Library/Record?libID=o284062. Digital Library, Dickinson State University.