When Warrington Dawson, the United Press man who covered TR’s 1909 African trip, returned to the United States, he sought an interview with Corinne Robinson, TR’s younger sister, to give her a firsthand account of it. But when Dawson said that TR spent his evenings resting, Mrs. Robinson was incredulous.
”I have never known my brother Theodore to rest,” she said.
Dawson then explained what he meant. At night, he said, TR and his companions would sit around the campfire and talk first about the day’s hunting; then the conversation would branch out to cover medieval history and literature, astronomy, perhaps the question of whether Louis XVII escaped from the Temple, then European politics and socialism.
Exclaimed Mrs. Robinson, greatly relieved, “Yes, I can accept, now, your original statement that my brother Theodore rested!”
Source:
Boller, Paul F. “Theodore Roosevelt.” Presidential Anecdotes. New York: Oxford UP, 1981. 209. Print.
Original Source Listed:
Gardner, Departing Glory, 129.
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