What Theodore Roosevelt Did the Day His Son Died

Описание: July 14, 1918, Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, New York: Telegram arrived for former President Theodore Roosevelt. War Department telegram. Roosevelt read it. Youngest son Quentin Roosevelt, age 20, shot down over German lines in France. Dead. Roosevelt put down telegram. Sat quietly. Then called his secretary. Dictated statement to press: "Quentin's mother and I are very glad that he got to the front and had the chance to render some service to his country and to show the stuff there was in him before his fate befell him." Released statement to every newspaper in America. Then went back to work. But privately: Roosevelt wrote to friend Arthur Lee: "There is no use of my writing about Quentin; for I should break down if I tried." Wrote to another friend: "It is a very bitter thing to see the young die while the old who are doing nothing, as I am doing nothing, are left alive." Wrote to daughter Ethel: "Quentin was my youngest, my most light-hearted. Of all the boys, he was the one who could always make me laugh." And privately: "I would give everything I have ever accomplished, every word I have ever written, every office I have ever held, to have Quentin back." Roosevelt died January 5, 1919. Six months after Quentin's death.

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Disclaimer: Based on Roosevelt's personal letters, family accounts, staff accounts, and verified documentation. For educational purposes.