Notes for Chapter I
- Washington Post, Aug. 16, 1991, p. A1.
- Gen. Hugh S. Johnson to Major J.H.K. Davis, June 6, 1918, file no. 334.8/168 or
334.8/451 in U.S. National Archives, Suitland, Maryland. - Bernard M. Baruch, My Own Story (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1957), pp. 138-
- Baruch related "our firm did a large business for Mr. Harriman.... In 1906 Harriman
had [us] place heavy bets on Charles Evans Hughes in his race for Governor of New
York against William Randolph Hearst. After several hundred thousand dollars had been
wagered, [our firm] stopped. Hearing of this, Harriman called ... up.Didn't I tell you to bet?' he demanded.Now go on.'|" - Alden Hatch, Remington Arms: An American History, 1956, copyright by the
Remington Arms Co., pp. 224-25. - The Ohio State Journal, Columbus, Ohio, Thursday, Aug. 8, 1918.
- The Ohio State Journal, Friday, Aug. 9, 1918.
- The Ohio State Journal, Friday, Sept. 6, 1918.
- Interview with Prescott Bush in the Oral History Research Project conducted by
Columbia University in 1966, Eisenhower Administration Part II; pp. 5-6. The interview
was supposed to be kept confidential and was never published, but Columbia later sold
microfilms of the transcript to certain libraries, including Arizona State University. - Theodore Roosevelt to James S. Sherman, Oct. 6, 1906, made public by Roosevelt at a
press conference April 2, 1907. Quoted in Henry F. Pringle, Theodore Roosevelt (New
York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1931), p. 452. Roosevelt later confided to
Harriman lawyer Robert S. Lovett that his views on Harriman were based on what J.P.
Morgan had told him. - See The Industries of St. Louis, published 1885 by J.M. Elstner & Co., pp. 61-62 for
Crow, Hagardine & Co., David Walker's first business; and p. 86 for Ely & Walker. - See Letter of G.H. Walker to D.R. Francis, March 20, 1905, in the Francis collection
of the Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Missouri, on the organization of the
Republicans and Democrats to run the election of the mayor, a Democrat acceptable to
the socially prominent. The next day Walker became the treasurer and Francis the
president of this "Committee of 1000." See also George H. Walker obituary, St. Louis
Globe-Democrat, June 25, 1953. - Letter of Perry Francis to his father, Ambassador David R. Francis, Oct. 15, 1917,
Francis collection of the Missouri Historical Society. "... Joe Miller left for San Francisco