All the Great Prizes
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“The reports of the doctors”: Unidentified clipping, n.d., JH scrapbook, JH-LC.
“President’s condition”: JH to CSH, telegram, September 13, 1901, JH-LC.
“worn and nervous”: Unidentified clipping, n.d., JH scrapbook, JH-LC.
“The President is pulseless”: Filson telegram, n.d. [September 13, 1901], JH-LC.
“The President died”: Morris, Theodore Rex, 7.
“Laid low by the act”: JH to Manuel Alvarez Calderon, et al., September 14, 1901, JH-BU.
“No ceremonies”: JH, “Funeral Announcement to the Public,” September 14, 1901, JH-LC.
“[M]y personal grief”: JH to Lady Jeune, September 14, 1901 [misdated; probably c. September 19], JH-LET 3:229–30.
“[B]ehind all, in my mind”: HA to JH, September 7, 1901, HAL 5:291.
“I . . . shuddered”: JH to HA, September 19, 1901, HA-MHS.
“My dear Roosevelt”: JH to TR, September 15, 1901, JH-LC.
Hay’s predicted successor: New York Herald, n.d., clipping, JH scrapbook, JH-LC.
“without waiting”: JH to HA, September 19, 1901, HA-MHS.
“[A]s I am the next”: JH to Lady Jeune, September 14 [c. 19], 1901, JH-LET 3:230.
“it was past the breakers”: Miner, Fight for the Panama Route, 117.
“tingling silentness . . . become an old man”: JH to TR, October 2, 1901, JH-LC.
“[Mrs. Roosevelt] is forty”: TR to JH, October 5, 1901, TR-LET 3:161.
“I wish you might”: JH to CK, October 27, 1901, JH-LC.
“the great job is accomplished”: JC to JH, October 25, 1901, Dennett Papers, LC.
“in the best of spirits”: JC to HW, November 11, 1901, HW-LC.
“Lodge came home”: JC to HW, November 11, 1901, HW-LC.
“This has been a year . . . be any better”: JH to CSH, December 2, 1901, WAD-LC.
“They are old friends and playmates”: JH to WR, November 18, 1901, WR-LC.
As the end neared: Sandweiss, Passing Strange, 238–40.
“In my present condition”: CK to JH, August 22, 1901, JH-LC.
“He is, I fancy”: JH to HA, November 17, 1901, HA-MHS.
“the best and brightest”: JH to HA, August 9, 1901, HA-MHS.
“I am very, very sorry”: TR to JH, December 25, 1901, JH-LC.
Chapter 17: A Reasonable Time
“Personally . . . his loss is very great”: TR to HCL, July 11, 1905, TR-LET 4:1270–71.
“He was a man of remarkable . . . was not a great Secretary of State”: TR to HCL, January 28, 1909, TR-LET 6:1489–90.
“When I came in”: TR to JH, July 11, 1903, DEN 360.
“I could not spare you”: TR to JH, July 29, 1903, TR-LET 3:352.
“You must always remember”: Morris, Theodore Rex, 81.
“still mentally in the Sturm”: Beale, Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise, 48.
“a stupid, blundering”: HA to ESC, April 1, 1902, HAL 5:365.
“Teddy said the other day”: JH to HA, October 13, 1901, HA-MHS.
“slaughter-house . . . high-school pedagogue”: JH to ESC, January 12, 1902, HAL 5:322–23.
“Power when wielded”: HAE 1101.
“I have a horror”: Beale, Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise, 51.
“the largest aggregation”: Washington Evening Star, n.d., clipping, JH scrapbook, JH-LC.
“There are two important lines”: JH, “American Diplomacy,” JH-ADD 113–25.
“Diplomats, women, and crabs”: JH MS, n.d., JH-BU.
“[Hay] has kept”: Brooklyn Daily Eagle, November 20, 1901, clipping, JH scrapbook, JH-LC.
“a warming-pan . . . the climax of the season”: HA to ESC, February 9, 1902, HAL 5:338–39.
“The Secretary’s figure”: New York Tribune, February 28, 1902.
“There is not one”: JH, “William McKinley,” JH-ADD 175.
“[I]t was oratory in the high”: Edith Wharton to George Smalley, March 2, 1902, JH-BU.
“let sleeping dogs lie”: Beale, Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise, 111.
had to Cornwall or Kent: Marks, Velvet on Iron, 106.
“as we assert it . . . to be drastic”: Beale, Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise, 111.
“Whenever Canada”: HA to ESC, March 1, 1903, HAL 5:464.
“It seems to me that”: TR to JH, July 16, 1902, TR-LET 3:294–95.
determined engineer: McCullough, Path Between the Seas, 325–27.
“Youthful nations”: B-V, Panama, 191.
“a rather theatrical look”: New York World, October 4, 1906.
The World would later allege: New York World, January 17, 1904.
“held the trump cards”: Miner, Fight for the Panama Route, 111.
“[I]t is not convenient”: Ibid., 139–40.
“[B]oth in Colombia”: JH to John Tyler Morgan, April 22, 1902, JH-LC.
“I conceive my duty”: JH to John Tyler Morgan, April 23, 1902, JH-LC.
“These simple and lucid diagrams”: B-V, Panama, 238.
“What an unexpected”: Ibid., 228.
“eminent French”: New York Sun, May 12, 1902.
“My compliments”: New York Sun, May 17, 1902, in B-V, Panama, 243.
published a cartoon of Hanna: McCullough, Path Between the Seas, 323.
“An official witness”: B-V, Panama, 247.
“poison the minds”: McCullough, Path Between the Seas, 319.
“direct, constant”: Fry, John Tyler Morgan and the Search, 223–24.
the “Hannama” canal: Croly, Marcus Alonzo Hanna, 384.
“The great bit of work”: TR to JH, July 1, 1902, TR-LET 3:284.
“I do not imagine”: JH to “Dear Senator” [John Tyler Morgan], July 15, 1902, Dennett Papers, LC.
“a liberal education”: Bishop, Theodore Roosevelt and His Time, 1:195.
“The principles which have governed”: JH, “At the Universities,” JH-ADD 182.
“ ‘What a man!’ ”: JH to TR, June 26, 1902, in Bishop, Theodore Roosevelt and His Time, 1:196.
wearing a pistol under his coat: Morris, Theodore Rex, 117.
“[T]he President’s life is worth”: JH to Philander Knox, June 16, 1902, JH-LC.
“I left Washington”: JH to Babcock, July 20, 1902, JH-BU.
“In reading the great work”: TR to JH, July 22, 1902, TR-LET 3:300.
“The whole country side”: JH to AA, August 27, 1902, JH-LC.
a 150-pound wild boar: “ ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt Hunted Wild Boar in Newport,” in Mary and Lawrence Petersen, eds., A Collection of New Hampshire Stories (1971), 3–4.
“We are greatly”: JH to TR, telegram, [September 3, 1902], JH-LC.
“What a marvelous escape”: AA to JH, September 4, 1902, JH-LC.
“I had a hideous appreciation”: JH to AA, September 3, 1902, JH-LC.
“John seems to have come”: HA to CSH, September 21, 1902, HAL 5:407.
“fortunately the sun”: CSH to HA, October 12, 1902, HA-MHS.
“It certainly is a tax”: JH to WR, September 13, 1902, WR-LC.
“If John Hay should”: Morris, Theodore Rex, 148.
“I am thankful that”: CSH to HA, October 12, 1902, HA-MHS.
“Theodore was in fine”: JH to HA, October 19, 1902, HA-MHS.
In Washington, Concha chose to view: Collin, Theodore Roosevelt’s Caribbean, 206–09.
“made all possible”: Miner, Fight for the Panama Route, 187.
Chapter 18: Fair Warning
“Voilà l’ennemi”: JH to HCL, July 27, 1898, HCL-MHS.
“the German Eagle eviscerating”: JH to TR, November 12, 1901, JH-LC.
“Frankly I don’t know”: Beale, Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise, 49.
“in case of sudden war”: Ibid., 356.
“The Monroe Doctrine is”: FR 1901 xxxvi.
“insolent dogma”: Herwig, Politics of Frustration, 72.
“the paramount power”: Ibid., 68–69.
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��: JH to Speck von Sternburg, July 12, 1901, in Pringle, Theodore Roosevelt, 283.
a “megalomaniac”: Herwig, Germany’s Vision of Empire, 86.
“an unspeakably villainous”: TR to JH, April 2, 1905, TR-LET 4:1156.
“the permanent occupation”: Hill, Roosevelt and the Caribbean, 111.
“no purpose or intention”: Ibid., 112.
“We will do whatever”: Herwig, Politics of Frustration, 69.
“the initial step”: Morris, “ ‘A Few Pregnant Days,’ ” 4.
“taking steps to obtain”: Hendrix, Theodore Roosevelt’s Naval Diplomacy, 39.
“to insult or defy”: JH, “American Diplomacy,” JH-ADD 125.
“There is not a cloud”: FR 1902, xxvii.
if “an arrangement”: JH to Percival Dodge, December 5, 1902, FR 1902, 418.
in a letter he wrote to John Hay’s first biographer: TR to WRT, August 21, 1916, TR-LET 8:1102–103.
“one of the most amazingly”: Morris, Theodore Rex, 188.
“storm of public opinion”: Beale, Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise, 355.
“lost its nerve”: Nevins, Henry White, 211.
“We are not interested”: Mitchell, “The Height of the German Challenge,” 203.
“I succeeded . . . in getting”: TR, Autobiography, 526.
“kept the President & our Country”: Stuyvesant Fish to JH, December 27, 1902, JH-LC.
“I am so happy”: Andrew Carnegie to JH, December 30, 1902, JH-LC.
“The steadiness with which”: Elbert Baldwin to JH, January 30, 1903, JH-LC.
“Our Emperor”: HA to ESC, February 3, 1903, HAL 5:449.
“[T]he presence of Lodge”: JH to HW, April 10, 1903, HW-LC.
“[W]e give up 30”: JH to CSH, October 18, 1903, JH-LC.
“I wonder if you realize”: TR to JH, April 16, 1903, JH-LC.
“It is a comfort”: JH to TR, July 13, 1903, JH-LC.
“As Secretary of State”: TR to JH, July 29, 1903, JH-LC.
“It is hard for me to answer”: JH to TR, August 2, 1903, JH-LC.
“From the cloistered life”: JH, speech at the Seventeenth Annual Banquet of the Ohio Society of New York, January 17, 1903, transcription, WRHS.
“Edith and I”: TR to JH, January 21, 1903, JH-LC.
“a rabbit in the presence”: Mount, John Singer Sargent, 206.
“Good Sargent”: HA to ESC, March 10, 1903, HAL 5:471–72.
“Mister Sargent finished”: JH to Helen Hay Whitney, February 27, 1903, JH-LC.
soon “annihilate” American trade: Zabriskie, American-Russian Rivalry, 75.
“We are not in any attitude”: JH to TR, May 1, 1902, in Dennett, Roosevelt and the Russo-Japanese War, 135.
“The alliance between Japan”: Zabriskie, American-Russian Rivalry, 82.
“inadmissible . . . Russian aggression”: JH to TR, April 28, 1903, JH-LC.
“Dealing with a government . . . our Manchurian affair”: JH to TR, May 12, 1903, JH-LC.
“[T]here does not seem”: TR to JH, May 13, 1903, TR-LET 3:474.
“The bad feature of the situation”: TR to JH, May 22, 1903, TR-LET 3:478.
“It would require”: JH to TR, April 28, 1903, JH-LC.
“[I]f we gave them a wink . . . their own sweet will”: JH to TR, May 12, 1903, JH-LC.
“[T]he Hebrews”: JH to AA, August 30, 1902, JH-LC.
“I want to put every money-lender”: HA to Charles Milnes Gaskell, January 3, 1894, HAL 4:157.
“Jews continue to do”: Unidentified clipping, n.d., JH scrapbook, JH-LC; Adler, Voice of America on Kishineff, xiii.
“There could be only two motives . . . to unmerited blame”: JH to Jacob Schiff, May 20, 1903, JH-LC.
“No person of ordinary humanity”: Adler, Voice of America on Kishineff, 471.
“any tragedy”: Ibid., 475.
“[T]his is not a Jewish”: Schoenberg, “The American Reaction to the Kishinev Pogrom of 1903,” 280.
“[I]t seemed somewhat strange”: Unidentified clipping, n.d., JH scrapbook, JH-LC.
“There is no reason in the world”: JH to George Smalley, July 9, 1903, JH-LC.
“It is a comfort”: JH to CSH, July 6, 1903, JH-LC.
“When McKinley sent”: JH to CSH, July 4, 1903, JH-LC.
“I could not resign”: JH to CSH, July 8, 1903, JH-LC.
“If they answer”: JH to TR, July 3, 1903, JH-LC.
“there was not a shade”: JH to TR, July 9, 1903, JH-LC.
“with apparent sincerity”: JH to TR, July 11, 1903, JH-LC.
“It seems like a surrender”: JH to TR, July 14, 1903, JH-LC.
“In every part of the world”: Leo Levi to JH, October 5, 1903, in Wolf, Presidents I Have Known, 213.
“What inept asses”: JH to TR, July 16, 1903, JH-LC.
“I have not the slightest objection”: TR to JH, July 18, 1903, TR-LET 3:520.
“Four years of constant . . . some moment of crisis”: JH to TR, July 22, 1903, JH-LC.
“I am beginning to have”: TR to JH, July 29, 1903, TR-LET 3:532.
“Everything seems in fair trim”: JH to TR, July 16, 1903, JH-LC.
“This country is”: JH to TR, August 2, 1903, JH-LC.
“We are enjoying long tramps”: JH to WR, August 13, 1903, WR-LC.
“If report of rejection”: AA to JH, August 18, 1903, JH-LC.
Chapter 19: Color of Right
“bitter hostility”: Arthur Beaupré to JH, April 15, 1903, FR 1903, 134.
“It is entirely impossible”: Arthur Beaupré to JH, May 4, 1903, FR 1903, 142–43.
“less scorn”: José Manuel Marroquín to Tomás Herrán, June 24, 1903, in DuVal, Cadiz to Cathay, 230–31.
“would be so seriously compromised”: JH to Arthur Beaupré, June 9, 1903, FR 1903, 146.
“Construed by many”: Arthur Beaupré to JH, July 6, 1903, FR 1903, 158.
“[T]he only party that can”: B-V to José Manuel Marroquín, June 13, 1903, in B-V, Panama, 267–68.
“would be equivalent to stabbing”: B-V to José Manuel Marroquín, August 17, 1903, in B-V, Panama, 278.
“Secretary Hay honored”: Story of Panama, 279.
“The Marroquín Government”: William Nelson Cromwell to JH, June 14, 1903, in Dennis, Adventures in American Diplomacy, 338–39.
“New Republic May Arise”: New York World, June 14, 1903.
“ ‘Well, we may make’ ”: New York Herald, August 15, 1903.
“greedy little anthropoids”: JH to TR, August 22, 1903, JH-LC.
“I would come at once to”: JH to TR, August 16, 1903, in Dennis, Adventures in American Diplomacy, 342–43.
“The one thing evident”: TR to JH, August 19, 1903, TR-LET 3:566–67.
“that the right of way . . . belong to them”: John Bassett Moore, memorandum, August 1903, in Miner, Fight for the Panama Route, appendix D, 427–32.
“It . . . would be useful . . . bide our hour”: JH to TR, August 22, 1903, JH-LC.
“Canal Troubles May Lead”: New York Herald, August 29, 1903.
“go the limit”: Story of Panama, 349.
“did not purpose to permit”: Ibid., 360.
“Just how much”: JH to TR, September 7, 1903, JH-LC.
“Revolutionary agents”: Story of Panama, 361.
“Yesterday Mr. J. G. Duque”: Ibid., 361.
“hostile attitude”: Ibid., 361–62.
“A revolution would today”: B-V, Panama, 292.
“Esperanzas”: DuVal, Cadiz to Cathay, 292.
“nobody could blame President”: B-V, Panama, 287.
“It is altogether likely”: JH to TR, September 13, 1902, JH-LC.
“I think it well worth”: TR to Mark Hanna, October 5, 1903, in DuVal, Cadiz to Cathay, 296–97.
“As yet, the people”: TR to Albert Shaw, October 7, 1903, TR-LET 3:626.
“All I can say is”: Schoonover, “Max Farrand’s Memorandum,” 505.
“General and speci
al circumstances . . . between us”: B-V, Panama, 311.
“I cast aside the proposition”: TR to Albert Shaw, October 10, 1903, TR-LET 3:628.
“I had always imagined . . . caught napping”: B-V, Panama, 317–18.
for orders directing naval forces: Turk, “The United States Navy and the ‘Taking’ of Panama,” 93.
“[I]t will interest”: B-V, Panama, 318–19.
a “fake”: Davis, Captain Macklin, 75.
“Did he not intend . . . if revolution broke out”: B-V, Panama, 319.
“Room No. 1162”: Ibid., 320.
“in order to obtain”: Ibid., 324.
“A battle royal”: Ibid., 321.
“The plan seems to me good”: DuVal, Cadiz to Cathay, 309.
“I agreed, beforehand”: JH to AA, September 18, 1903, JH-LC.
“a Trojan horse”: Zabriskie, American-Russian Rivalry, 98.
“This is the day of Fate”: JH to CSH, October 8, 1903, Dennett Papers, LC.
“It has been—as I reckon”: JH to ESC, October 10, 1903, AP.
“You will bear it”: JH to ESC, October 29, 1903, AP.
“could make anything”: JH to Augustus Saint-Gaudens, September 30, 1903, JH-LC.
bears an uncanny resemblance: Tehan, Henry Adams in Love, 183.
“It is a ruinous expense”: JH to CSH, October 16, 1903, JH-LC.
“intimate orally”: JH to Arthur Beaupré, October 22, 1903, FR 1903, 216.
“most pathetic . . . when I return”: JH to CSH, October 30, 1903, JH-LC.
“Now you will see”: J. Gabriel Duque to JH, September 21, 1903, JH-LC.
“lucky star . . . renewed today”: B-V, Panama, 331.
“telegraph in cipher”: Turk, “The United States Navy and the ‘Taking’ of Panama,” 93.
“The American cruiser Nashville”: B-V, Panama, 333.
“[m]aintain free and uninterrupted”: Ibid., 93–94.
“It is possible that”: Turk, “The United States Navy and the ‘Taking’ of Panama,” 94.
“Uprising at Isthmus . . . No uprising yet”: Miner, Fight for the Panama Route, 363.
“His Excellency”: Manuel Amador to JH, November 3, 1903, JH-LC.
“In the interest of peace”: Diplomatic History of the Panama Canal, 363.
“kill every United States”: FR 1903, 268.
“perish in the flames”: Story of Panama, 451.
“confidential agent”: Ibid., 463.