EPILOGUE
1. Melvin I. Urofsky, Brandeis: A Life (New York: Pantheon Books, 2009), 572.
2. Peri E. Arnold, Remaking the Presidency: Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson, 1901–1916 (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009), 10.
3. Ibid., 108.
4. Letter from William Howard Taft to Nellie Taft, July 22, 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), 235.
5. Lawrence F. Abbott, ed., Taft and Roosevelt: The Intimate Letters of Archie Butt, Military Aide, vol. 2 (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1930), 593.
6. Lawrence F. Abbott, ed., Taft and Roosevelt: The Intimate Letters of Archie Butt, Military Aide, vol. 1 (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1930), 110–11.
7. W. Carey McWilliams, “Commentary,” in The Collected Works of William Howard Taft, vol. 6, ed. W. Carey McWilliams and Frank X. Gerrity (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2003), 8.
8. William Howard Taft, “Veto Message Before the House of Representatives Returning Without Approval a Joint Resolution for Admission of New Mexico and Arizona into the Union as States,” Aug. 22, 1911, in The Collected Works of William Howard Taft, vol. 4, ed. David H. Burton (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2002), 151–52.
9. William Howard Taft, Liberty Under Law: An Interpretation of the Principles of Our Constitutional Government, in The Collected Works of William Howard Taft, vol. 8, ed. Francis Graham Lee (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2004), 8.
10. Abbott, Letters of Archie Butt, vol. 1, 313–14.
11. Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism (New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2013), 736.
12. Abbott, Letters of Archie Butt, vol. 1, 201.
13. Ibid., vol. 2, 498.
14. Ibid., vol. 1, 38.
15. Ibid., 151.