CONTENTS I. FROM THE TIME OF HIS GOING TO COLLEGE IN 1876 TO HIS ACCESSION TO THE PRESIDENCY IN 1901. I Roosevelt in College-Service in the Legislature – Interest in Literature, Hunting, Travel-Repub- lican Candidate for Mayor of New York - Civil Service Commissioner Police Commissioner Assistant Secretary of the Navy-Lieutenant-Colonel II. CHANGING SOCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL CONDITIONS Convention of 1904- New Leadership-The Trusts and the Railroads Northern Securities Case The Monroe Doctrine-Foreign Policy. The Army and Navy - Nobel Prize Arbitration - Treaties - Preparedness — Merchant Marine—The Tariff- Conservation Relations with Congress - THEODORE Roosevelt on HIS GRADUATION FROM HAR- Photograph by Notman, Boston FACSIMILE OF Letter written BY ROOSEVElt after his ELECTION TO THE NEW YORK ASSEMBLY IN 1881 . 8 ROOSEVELT IN 1897 Photograph by Rockwood, 1897 ROOSEVELT WHEN PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES Photograph by E. S. Curtis, 1904 MR. AND MRS. ROOSEVELT WITH THEIR GRANDSON 22 118 CHAPTER I FROM THE TIME OF HIS GOING TO COLLEGE IN 1876 UNTIL HE BECAME PRESIDENT ÎN 1901 I HAVE known Theodore Roosevelt since we entered Harvard together in the autumn of 1876. I knew him intimately in college; and, while I have seen him only at irregular intervals since we graduated in 1880, I have always followed his career closely and with the most intense interest. Through all these years I have had very definite views of his character which I have never seen any occasion to change. These views differ radically from those held by many people. I purpose to express them here, and if no one shall find the recital either instructive or interesting, it will at least be a satisfaction to me to leave a record of my estimate of a man whom I have known and loved for nearly forty years. This is in no sense a history or even a finished sketch of his life. It is a record of my personal impressions, fortified by such facts as |