When the Cheering Stopped (41 page)

88
–“If you say I must cancel the trip”: quoted by Daniels,
The Life of Woodrow Wilson
, p. 388.

89
–Description of the reporters' discussions: David Lawrence to author.

90
–Starling's conversation with the President: Starling, p. 153.

91
–He has lost his mind. This was a recurring theme from the moment the announcement was made that the tour was to be ended. The action of the President in raising his hat can be explained as a kind of reflex action not unexpected from a man who had been getting off trains and greeting crowds for weeks past.

91
–Hoover thought …: Hoover, p. 100.

91
–Different from the careful and methodical man: Jaffray, p. 69. It is of interest to know that a common symptom in a person suffering a thrombosis or stroke is loss of attention to personal appearance.

91
–Want to go to a church service: Grayson, p. 100.

92
–Ghastly headaches … drifting from the study at one end of the hall: Wilson, p. 286.

92
–Mooing cow: O'Neill.

92
–Played some billiards: Grayson, p. 100.

92
–Bright and cheerful:
ibid.
, p. 100.

92
,
93
–The incident of the watch: Wilson, p. 287.

93
–Details of the collapse:
ibid.
, pp. 287–88.

93
–“My God, the President is paralyzed”: quoted by Hoover, p. 101.

94
–The cuts on the President's temple and nose are described in Hoover, p. 102. Mrs. Wilson, in her book published some years after Hoover's, says (p. 288) the latter's “rather remarkable account” is wrong; that there were no cuts.

95
–“We must all pray”: quoted by Daniels in his diary, Daniels Papers.

95
–“Scared literally to death”: quoted by Houston, Vol. II, p. 36.

95
–In the White House diary: the diary (or perhaps one should say diaries, for there are several volumes) are in the Hoover Papers.

95
–“Poor, humble prayers”: Tumulty's note is in the Wilson Papers.

95
–It hurt too much: quoted by R. S. Baker, Baker Papers.

95
,
96
–Houston's talks with Tumulty and the Vice President: Houston, Vol. II, pp. 36–37.

96
,
97
–Lansing's talk with Tumulty. Tumulty, pp. 443–44.

97
,
98
–Details of the Cabinet meeting are from Houston, Vol. II, pp. 38–39, and Bender, pp. 59–60, on the basis of an interview with Secretary of the Interior Lane.

98
–No off-the-record information: Blum, p. 215.

98
–Joseph Wilson's letter to Tumulty has found its way into the Wilson Papers. It is possible Tumulty sent the letter up to Mrs. Wilson upon receiving it. Joseph Wilson, ten years younger than the President, was not close to him. He was a newspaperman for most of his working life, but was with the U.S. Fidelity and Guaranty Company, Baltimore, at the time he sent the letter to Tumulty.

99
-
102
–Details on Marshall are summed up from Thomas.

99n
.–The conversation with the UP official is described in Bailie, p. 64. Bailie was the head of the Washington bureau.

99
–Best scene as a country grocery store: W. G. McAdoo, p. 269.

101
–Two seats in a coach: Lansing Papers. Marshall wrote a rather plaintive letter to Secretary of State Lansing complaining about his accommodations.

101
,
102
–The Essary meeting with Marshall: Clapper, p. 53.

CHAPTER SEVEN

102
,
103
–Medical details are from an article by Dr. Walter Alvarez in
Geriatrics
for May-June 1946.

104
–Wandered from office to office picking up papers and putting them down: Ira Smith,
p
. 104.

104
–Letters simply vanished:
ibid.
, p. 104.

104
–“See what we can do”: quoted by Smith,
ibid.
, p. 105.

105
–The struggle between Tumulty and Swem: Smith,
ibid.
, pp. 105–06.

105
,
106
–Details of the prostatic obstruction: Wilson, pp. 291–92.

106
–Ten minutes a day: Hatch, p. 226.

107
–Tumulty, not the President, wrote the Presidential statement: Blum, p. 219.

108
–Too weak to attend to natural functions: Hoover, p. 103.

108
–Conversation between Daniels and Grayson: Daniels,
The Wilson Era
, p. 512.

108
,
109
–The limerick and the pun:
ibid.
, pp. 108–09.

109
–Steadied and pointed it: Hoover, p. 104.

109
–Senator Moses addressed as “Doc”: Daniels,
The Wilson Era
, p. 511.

110
–“Mrs. Wilson is President!”: quoted by Daniels,
ibid.
, p. 513.

110
–“Too much Jekyll and Hyde”: Long Papers.

110
,
111
–The visit of the Belgians: Wilson, pp. 292–95.

110
–The President's white beard: the King of the Belgians told Secretary Daniels it was full and white: Jonathan Daniels, p. 293.

111
–Hitchcock visit: Hitchcock papers.

112
,
114
–The details on the Prince's visit: Wilson, pp. 295–96. (That the King and Queen of the Belgians and the Prince of Wales were among the first visitors to see the President brought down a storm of criticism upon Mrs. Wilson. She was already suspected of too great a devotion to European royalties. It was remembered that she did not appear unhappy when, during the trip to Europe, the English called Miss Benham, her secretary, a lady in waiting.)

112
–“Very charming young lady”: quoted by Wilson, p. 295.

112
–“This—is—the—bed”: quoted by Jaffray, p. 73.

112
–“This window, sir?” quoted by Wilson, p. 296.

113
,
114
–The Lord Grey and Craufurd-Stuart matter is described by Jonathan Daniels, pp. 294–98. The State Department files in the National Archives contain letters sent to, and letters from, Lord Grey on the matter.

113
–A crazy man: Mrs. Harriman to author.

114
–House viewed all this with apprehension: New York
Times
, July 26, 1934. The Colonel, upon the occasion of Lord Grey's arrival, wrote the President: “I hope you will give him the warmest possible welcome”: Wilson Papers.

114
,
115
–House's letters: Wilson Papers. It is by no means certain that the President ever saw the letters. Mrs. Wilson, who disliked House—her book shows this all too clearly—may well have decided not to bother her husband with House's suggestions.

115
–Watson-Lodge conversations: Watson, p. 200.

116
–Everything would turn out all right: Tom Connally heard a Democratic Senator say at the time, “If only President Wilson had not been a college prof and didn't
know how to write so well this issue would come out all right”: Connally, p. 100.

116
–Bonsal's attempt to bring about an agreement: Bonsal, pp. 271–76.

117
–“Awful thing settled”: “Dishonorable compromise”: Wilson, p. 297.

117
–Thinking to himself: Hitchcock Papers.

118
–“I must get well”: quoted in Wilson, p. 297.

CHAPTER EIGHT

118
–First breath of fresh air: Hatch, p. 235.

118
–Details on the wheel chair: Hoover, p. 104.

118
–Unable to dictate for more than five minutes at a time: quoted by Blum, p. 312.

119f
.–Letters upon which Mrs. Wilson scrawled her messages will be indicated below.

119
–“My husband and his health”: quoted by Tumulty, p. 438.

119
,
120
–Daniels' problems with the discharged midshipmen are detailed in his letters to the White House which are now in the Wilson Papers.

120
–Never had his resignation accepted: Herbert Hoover,
Memoirs
, Vol. II, p. 15.

120
–Costa Rican recognition: Letters on this are in the Wilson Papers.

120
–The appointment forms are in the Wilson Papers.

121
–“Keeping me from the President”: quoted by David Lawrence to the author. It should be emphasized that Tumulty made the remark to Lawrence, not in Lawrence's capacity as a reporter, but in his capacity as a friend of ten years' standing. To the outside world Tumulty maintained that no difficulties between himself and the First Lady existed.

121
–“Almost a suspension of Government”: quoted by Nevins,
Henry White
, p. 485.

122
–“Our Government has gone out of business”: Baker,
American Chronicle
, p. 480.

122
–Two years of schooling: She attended Virginia finishing schools.

122
–“Unable to attend to public business … so confused that no one could interpret them”; Lansing made his remarks to Charles Sumner Hamlin and is quoted in the Hamlin Papers.

123
–In response to such requests: Hatch, p. 226. Mr. Hatch believes today that the First Lady went to her death without ever realizing the extent to which she personally wielded the power of the Presidency. Mr. Hatch had many long talks with Mrs. Wilson while preparing his “authorized” biography of her and was left with the strong impression that Mrs. Wilson had over the years convinced herself that her role was quite minimal. Perhaps this was because Mrs. Wilson first met the President when he was a famed world figure. Had she, like Ellen Wilson, known him as a young man and a junior member of college faculties, she might have been better able to understand that he, like all men, was capable of human error. Her picture of him from the start of their relationship, however, was of a more-than-lifelike figure. Mr. Hatch told the author, “When I brought up the subject of her power after the President fell ill, her attitude was ‘How could
I
—how could
anyone
—act as President when that job was held by the one and only Woodrow Wilson?'”

123
–Houston said: His remarks, made to Charles Sumner Hamlin, are quoted in the Hamlin Papers.

123
–Lodge wrote: quoted in Baruch, p. 140.

124
–Tumulty for weeks sent nothing at all: Blum, p. 236.

124
,
125
–Tumulty's letter is in the Wilson Papers.

125
–The attempt by Phillips to get the Netherlands appointment is described by Breckinridge Long in his diary: Long Papers.

126
,
127
–The Marshall visit to the White House and his conversation with Thistlethwaite: Thomas, pp. 211, 226.

128
,
129
–The Atlanta incident is described in the Raymond Clapper Papers.

128
–“You know how the Chief writes”: quoted by Walworth, Vol. 11, p. 378.

129
–Details of the motion by Fall to send a committee to call upon the President are found in the Hitchcock Papers.

130
–The “dress rehearsal”: Woolley Papers.

130
–
132
–The Fall visit is described in Wilson, pp. 298–99. Houston (on the basis of the President's later discussion of it), Vol. II, pp. 190–91, and in the Albert Burleson Papers (on the basis of a conversation Burleson had with Grayson).

CHAPTER NINE

132
–
137
–The White House routine in the fall of 1919 is described by Hoover, pp. 102–06, and by Robert Bender in
Collier's
for March 6, 1920.

132
–The weak voice would drift away so that they sat silently: Charles Swem, quoted by Walworth, Vol. II, p. 375.

133
–Margaret would often come in: Miss Wilson to R. S. Baker, Baker Papers.

132
–
134
–The description of the White House during the period covered is from Shackleton, pp. 43–48. Although the ordinary visitors' tours were all canceled, Shackleton, a writer of travel books, was allowed to go through.

133
–Reporters played cards: David Lawrence to author.

133
–Tumulty's carefully chosen words: “I was warned by Dr. Grayson and Mrs. Wilson not to alarm him unduly by bringing pessimistic reports … I sought in the most delicate and tactful way I could to bring the atmosphere of the Hill to him”: Tumulty, p. 454.

133
,
134
–Midst of a passage with no emotional significance he would begin to cry: Stockton Axson to R. S. Baker, Baker Papers.

134
,
135
–Robert E. Long wrote of his experiences in showing films to the President in a series of newspaper articles published in September 1925. R. S. Baker clipped the series from the Chicago
Daily News
and the clippings are in the Baker Papers.

134
–Try to smile, his face twisting: Parks, p. 157. Mrs. Parks's mother, who, like Mrs. Parks, was a White House employee, “suffered agonies” when she saw the President's condition.

136
–Vice President Marshall: Thomas, p. 186.

136
–“A great number of them”: quoted by Grayson, p. 109.

136
–“I don't know how much more criticism I can take”: quoted in Parks, p. 155. (The remark was made to Mrs. Parks's mother.)

136n
.–Lord Grey was warned that Jimmy Roosevelt had measles: Jonathan Daniels, p. 299.

137
–“An Indian”:
ibid.
, p. 155.

137
–Secretary Houston's disbelief that the President wrote the letter: Houston, Vol. II, p. 47.