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Page 76 - President-elect, and to offer again our congratulations on his election. In both respects the call was a good deal of a failure. We did see Mr. Taft for a few moments, but there was certainly no important news in what he told us, very little, indeed, that was worth sending, beyond the fact that he had received us, and had nothing to say. And when we left the Boardman house every one of us had the same queer feeling 76 that something had happened to 'put us in bad
Page 77 - ... put us in bad' with the new President. The old cordiality and friendliness which had always marked his dealings with us, in the days when he was Secretary of War and a candidate for the nomination, was wholly gone, and there was in its place a reserve that almost amounted to coldness.
Page 77 - ... cordiality and friendliness which had always marked his dealings with us, in the days when he was Secretary of War and a candidate for the nomination, was wholly gone, and there was in its place a reserve that almost amounted to coldness. There was not one of those correspondents who had not done Mr. Taft substantial favors repeatedly, but there was nothing in his bearing that afternoon which would indicate the slightest realization of that fact on his part.
Page 160 - But to me, who had been used to watch his every movement for years and who knew him so well, it was plain that he was a changed man. He kept his peace, but he was eating his heart out.
Page 41 - Mr. Root is known to the world as a great lawyer and is generally regarded as a man of austere manner and cold, unemotional character. And yet some of us in the White House used to call him "Cry Baby."1 This was not done disrespectfully or disparagingly. It was because several times we had seen him moved to tears.
Page 156 - I 155 entered his room at eight o'clock I could see plainly enough the look of great weariness in his face. He did not talk much and a little later said: "James, don't you think I might go to bed now?
Page 51 - House just before luncheon time and that as they had not finished their conference, Roosevelt asked him to stay for luncheon. Washington hesitated politely. Roosevelt insisted.
Page 152 - His health failed; he had lost the sight of one eye and the hearing of one ear...
Page 51 - Washington was unpremeditated, he was surprised by the rage which it caused among Southerners. But he was clear-sighted enough to understand that he had made a mistake and this he never repeated.
Page 145 - Roosevelt was in a state of excitement such as I had never seen before.