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

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THE HUME OF THE PRESIDENT
simply desires to take the President by the hand and speak to
him face to face. President Roosevelt has the reputation of
turning no man and no woman away who desires to speak to
him. He has a kindly word for every one, and any person
who knows President Roosevelt knows that he is sincere.
No one has ever yet charged him with insincerity. President
Roosevelt can converse with the fond mother about her chil-
dren, and there is no man who enjoys seeing the little ones as
does the President. He can converse with equal facility with
the cowboy on the plains, the mining man from Colorado.
California, or the Klondike, the fisherman from Cape Cod or
the Columbia River, the cotton grower from the South, the
wheat grower from the Mississippi Valley, the general farmer,
East or West, the mechanic, the locomotive engineer, the fire-
man, the contluctor, the steamboat pilot or master, and
steamship captain.
CALLS FROM DIPLOMATIC OFFICERS
The consular and diplomatic officers ot the United States,
who frequently drop in during their visits from foreign lands,
are surprised at the knov.'ledge the President possesses of
each foreign country, and the relations of this nation with the
powers of the world.
The ambassadors of the great European and Asiatic
powers, who are stationed in Washington, are unanimous in
their praise of the President and the information he has ot
and the humane consideration he has for the people of all
climes. The army and navy officers know that they have in
the President a safe and capable commander-in-chief of the
armed forces of the United States. He has belonged to both
the navy and the army. It is not unusual for enlisted men in
the army and navy to call ujjon the President. He takes