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Source: Illustrious Career and Heroic Deeds of Colonel Roosevelt, “The Intellectual Giant” Source type: book Document type: book chapter Document title: “President Roosevelt’s Administration” [chapter 12] Author(s): Mowbray, Jay Henry Publisher: none given Place of publication: none given Year of publication: 1910 Pagination: 171-81 (excerpt below includes only pages 171-72) |
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| Mowbray, Jay Henry. “President Roosevelt’s Administration” [chapter 12]. Illustrious Career and Heroic Deeds of Colonel Roosevelt, “The Intellectual Giant.” [n.p.]: [n.p.], 1910: pp. 171-81. |
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| Keywords |
| Theodore Roosevelt (political aspirations); McKinley assassination. |
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| William McKinley; Theodore Roosevelt; Ansley Wilcox. |
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From title page: Illustrious Career and Heroic Deeds of Colonel
Roosevelt, “The Intellectual Giant”: Containing a Full Account of His
Marvelous Career, His Early Life, Adventures on a Western Ranch Among
the Cowboys; Famous Leader of the Rough Riders; President of Our Great
Country; His Wise Statesmanship, Manly Courage, Patriotsm, [sic] Etc.,
Etc.; Including His Famous Adventures in the Wilds of Africa in Search
of Lions, Rhinoceri, Elephants and Other Ferocious Beasts of the Jungle
and Plain; Journeys in Unknown Lands and Marvelous Discoveries, Together
with His Triumphal Journey and Receptions by the Crowned Heads of Europe.
From title page: Embellished with a Great Number of Superb Phototype
Engravings.
From title page: By Jay Henry Mowbray, Ph. D., LL. D., the Well-Known Historian and Traveler. |
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President Roosevelt’s Administration [excerpt]
WHEN Theodore Roosevelt was yet Vice President and had no thought
that he would succeed to the Presidency of the nation through the death of William
McKinley, he said:—“I am going to be a candidate for President. I shall do the
very best I can to obtain that nomination. But if I do not get it I shall accept
the result cheerfully, and although it will be a great disappointment to me
should I fail to be the candidate of my party, I shall not sulk nor let it embitter
my life.”
Mr. Roosevelt made this statement at the house
of Mr. Ansley Wilcox at Buffalo, in September, 1901, when he was packing up,
preparing to leave for the Adirondacks. President McKinley had been shot a few
days before and on that day the physicians had given the opinion that he would
recover. The whole country breathed a sigh of relief and no one felt more joyful
than Mr. Roosevelt. The man was supremely happy that the Presidency was not
going to come to him through the assassin’s bullet.
“To become President in this way,” he had said,
“means nothing to me. Aside from the horror of having President McKinley die,
there is an additional horror in becoming his successor in that way. The thing
that appeals to me is to be elected President. That is the way I want the honor
to come, if I am ever to receive it.”
Mr. Roosevelt went to the Adirondacks. When there,
Mr. [171][172] McKinley took a sudden change for
the worse and died while the Vice President was on his way back to Buffalo to
take the oath and assume the responsibilities of the office of President.