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...century's President William McKinley had been shot by an anarchist at. an international festival of peace and commerce, and now McKinley was dying, the third U.S. President to be assassinated in 36 years. Theodore Roosevelt had made a quiet point in a note to a friend: "It was in the most naked way an assault not on power, not on wealth, but simply and solely upon free government, government by the common people, because it was government and because it yet stood for order as well as for liberty." Now the needs of the hour summoned Theodore Roosevelt...
...Years of Growth. Through the next 17 years T.R. groped toward power along what one friend called "an eccentric orbit." Shrugging off the wealthy, wellborn friends who warned him that politics was "low," he joined Manhattan's 21st District Republican Club, got elected and re-elected to three rambunctious years in the lower house of the .New York State legislature. In the winter of 1884 T.R.'s wife Alice died in childbirth, and he headed west to the solace of the silent spaces of the North Dakota Territory. "Black care," he said, "rarely sits behind a rider whose...
...Civil Service Commissioner (under Presidents Benjamin Harrison and Grover Cleveland), then put in two years as police board chairman of New York City (1895-97), booting out corrupt cops, promoting the worthy and rewarding the brave, making headlines by prowling the slums with his reform-minded friend Jacob (How the Other Half Lives') Riis. Wrote T.R.: "I am dealing with the most important, and yet most elementary, problems of our municipal life . . . There is nothing of the purple in it; it is grimy...
...ominously, Germany and Japan were building fleets to challenge Pax Britannica and tilt the world balance of power. T.R. argued for war with Spain to kick the Spaniards % out of Cuba and to get the U.S. into world posture, a course also advocated by T.R.'s mentor and friend, Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan, as the only...
Across the Pacific, the Russo-Japanese War exploded in 1904. T.R. later wrote an old friend that he had notified France and Germany "in the most polite and discreet fashion" not to combine against Japan, or the U.S. would "proceed to whatever length necessary." Later Japan began to thrash Russia. T.R., determined to balance the power of Japan, moved in secrecy and with great skill through intermediaries in Europe to signify a U.S. desire to mediate, and to douse the world powder keg altogether...