CONTENTS

I. FROM THE TIME OF HIS GOING TO COLLEGE IN 1876

TO HIS ACCESSION TO THE PRESIDENCY IN 1901 .

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

of the Rough Riders - Governor of New York -

Vice-President of the United States President.

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II. CHANGING SOCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL CONDITIONS

Convention of 1904 – New Leadership— The Trusts

and the Railroads Northern Securities Cases -

The Sherman Anti-Trust Act — The Negro Ques-

tion - Booker Washington Discharge of Negro

Regiment at Brownsville — The Labor Question.

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III. ROOSEVELT AND THE MONROE DOCTRINE

The Monroe Doctrine Foreign Policy - The

Army and Navy — Nobel Prize — Arbitration
Treaties - Preparedness — Merchant Marine — The
Tariff - Conservation - Relations with Congress
Legislation during his Administration - Tennessee
Coal and Iron Company – End of his Term.

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IV. THE AFRICAN AND EUROPEAN TRIPS

The Vatican Incident - Return to New York -

Campaigns of 1912 - Recall of Judicial Decisions.

ILLUSTRATIONS

Frontispiece

THE THREE T. R.'s

Photograph by Walter Scott Shirir, 1915

THEODORE ROOSEVELT ON HIS GRADUATION FROM HAR-
VARD COLLEGE IN 1880

Photograph by Notman, Boston

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FACSIMILE OF LETTER WRITTEN BY ROOSEVELT AFTER HIS

ELECTION TO THE NEW YORK ASSEMBLY IN 1881

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ROOSEVELT WHEN PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES . 118

Photograph by E. S. Curtis, 1904
MR. AND Mrs. ROOSEVELT WITH THEIR GRANDSON
RICHARD DERBY, JR.

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CHAPTER I

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FROM THE TIME OF HIS GOING TO COLLEGE IN 1876 UNTIL HE BECAME PRESIDENT İN 1901 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

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