The Triumphant Life of Theodore Roosevelt edited by J. Martin Miller

ROOSEVELT THE PRESIDENT 37
very men who had attempted to engineer it were coming to
the White House making amends for their conduct. Some of
these men were among the most prominent Republicans in
Congress. Their feeling against the President was based on
no satisfactory ground, except that he was young, thoroughly
sincere, and did not give up everything that the politicians
asked him. Thus it came about that six months before the
Chicago Convention had officially rendered its decision, the
President's nomination was a foregone conclusion.
ALWAYS IN GOOD PHYSICAL CONDITION
President Roosevelt has always been a hard worker in his
office, and at the same time he has found some time for out-
door exercise, which he considered essential to his health and
to keep himself in good condition so as to serve his country
best, and his ideas that the sanest and wisest and most active
mind is to be found in the healthiest body have proven abso-
lutely correct in his own case.
HIS BUSIEST HOURS
Entering his office each morning about nine o'clock, the
President has remained there until about a quarter of two,
talking to hundreds of people who desire to see him. After
an hour at luncheon the President again assumes his duties in
the office, and when he found opportunity has gone horseback
riding, walking or indulged in other out-door exercise that
would keep him in physical condition. His busiest hours,
however, are those from nine to one-thirty or two. While
Congress is in session he sees from ten to twenty members of
Congress every day, besides cabinet officers, national commit-
teemen, State chairmen, foreign ministers, ambassadors and