5: “POPULAR UNREST”
1. Theodore Roosevelt, “A Charter for Democracy,” Feb. 21, 1912, Ashbrook Center, Ashland University, http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/a-charter-for-democracy// [https://perma.cc/6XJZ-XZF7].
2. Ibid.
3. James Chace, 1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, and Debs—The Election That Changed the Country (New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2004), 106.
4. Lawrence F. Abbott, ed., Taft and Roosevelt: The Intimate Letters of Archie Butt, Military Aide, vol. 2 (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1930), 850.
5. William Howard Taft, “Speech Delivered in Boston,” Apr. 25, 1912, in 38 Senate Docs., 62nd Cong. (Dec. 4, 1911–Aug. 26, 1912): 3–4.
6. Ibid., 5.
7. Ibid., 19.
8. Lewis L. Gould, The William Howard Taft Presidency (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009), 177.
9. Henry F. Pringle, The Life and Times of William Howard Taft, vol. 2 (Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1986), 783.
10. Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism (New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2013), 696.
11. Gould, William Howard Taft Presidency, 161.
12. Chace, 1912, 113.
13. Ibid., 116.
14. Ibid., 117.
15. Pringle, Taft, vol. 2, 802.
16. Jonathan Lurie, William Howard Taft: The Travails of a Progressive Conservative (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 166.
17. Chace, 1912, 121.
18. Pringle, Taft, vol. 2, 809.
19. Chace, 1912, 123.
20. Pringle, Taft, vol. 2, 813.
21. Letter from William Howard Taft to Nellie Taft, July 15, 1912, in Lewis L. Gould, ed., My Dearest Nellie: The Letters of William Howard Taft to Helen Herron Taft (1909–1912) (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2011), 209.
22. Pringle, Taft, vol. 2, 815.
23. Ibid., 816.
24. Ganesh Sitaraman, The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution: Why Economic Inequality Threatens Our Republic (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2017), 176–78.
25. Peri E. Arnold, Remaking the Presidency: Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson, 1901–1916 (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009), 161.
26. “Progressive Party Platform of 1912,” Nov. 5, 1912, American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=29617 [https://perma.cc/8WUF-BUBE].
27. “Republican Party Platform of 1912,” June 18, 1912, American Presidency Project http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=29633 [https://perma.cc/47D2-GNGJ].
28. “1912 Democratic Party Platform,” June 25, 1912, American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=29590 [https://perma.cc/B2RL-Q4HJ].
29. The Democratic Text-Book, Democratic National Committee (1912): 2, https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015030798477.
30. “Republican Party Platform of 1912.”
31. “Progressive Party Platform of 1912.”
32. Letter from William Howard Taft to Nellie Taft, July 16, 1912, in Gould, My Dearest Nellie, 211.
33. Letter from William Howard Taft to Nellie Taft, July 22, 1912, in Gould, My Dearest Nellie, 233–34.
34. Ibid., 234.
35. Letter from William Howard Taft to Nellie Taft, July 24, 1912, in Gould, My Dearest Nellie, 241.
36. “Speech Accepting the Nomination for the Presidency by the Republican National Committee,” Aug. 1, 1912, in The Republican Campaign Text-Book, Republican National Committee (1912): 7, https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hw2hd8.
37. Ibid., 11.
38. Ibid.
39. Ibid.,12.
40. Ibid., 22.
41. Letter from William Howard Taft to Nellie Taft, July 16, 1912, in Gould, My Dearest Nellie, 211.
42. William Howard Taft, “Popular Unrest,” In Their Own Voices: The U.S. Presidential Elections of 1908–1912, vol. 2, Marston Records 2000, recorded Oct. 1, 1912, https://www.marstonrecords.com/products/voices#1-23.
43. Judith Icke Anderson, William Howard Taft: An Intimate History (New York: W. W. Norton, 1981), 233.
44. Pringle, Taft, vol. 2, 838.
45. “1912 Presidential Election,” 270toWin, http://www.270towin.com/1912_Election/ [https://perma.cc/8K73-GM7J].
46. Gould, William Howard Taft Presidency, 197.
47. Ibid.
48. Ibid., 202.
49. Mark Alden Branch, “Big Man on Campus,” Yale Alumni Magazine (Mar./Apr. 2013), https://yalealumnimagazine.com/articles/3632-big-man-on-campus.
50. William Howard Taft, “Annual Message Part III, Address to Congress on the Departments of the Post Office, Interior, Agriculture, and Commerce and Labor and District of Columbia,” Dec. 19, 1912, in The Collected Works of William Howard Taft, vol. 4, ed. David H. Burton (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2002), 336.
51. “President Taft to Yale. Kent Professor-Elect Says He Is Happy to Return,” Yale Daily News 36, no. 117 (Feb. 25, 1913), http://digital.library.yale.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/yale-ydn/id/93011/rec/1.
52. William Howard Taft, “Veto Message to the House of Representatives on H.R. 28775,” Mar. 4, 1913, in The Collected Works of William Howard Taft, vol. 4, 366.
53. Pringle, Taft, vol. 2, 857.
54. Andrew Dolan, The Taft Diet: How President Taft Lost 76 Pounds (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012), 79, Kindle.
55. Allan B. Schwartz, “Medical Mystery: Who’s Snoring in the White House?,” Philadelphia Inquirer, Jan. 1, 2017, http://www.philly.com/philly/health/Medical-Mystery-Whos-Snoring-in-the-White-House—.html [https://perma.cc/3ZKF-CJGX].
56. John G. Sotos, MD, “Taft and Pickwick: Sleep Apnea in the White House,” CHEST 124, no. 3 (Sept. 2003): 1137, http://dx.doi.org/10.1378/chest.124.3.1133.
57. David Potash, “Commentary,” in The Collected Works of William Howard Taft, vol. 5, ed. David Potash and Donald F. Anderson (Athens: Ohio University Press 2003), 11.
58. William Howard Taft, Popular Government: Its Essence, Its Permanence, and Its Perils, in The Collected Works of William Howard Taft, vol. 5, 21.
59. Ibid.
60. Ibid., 37.
61. Ibid., 54.
62. Ibid., 57.