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About 50 years ago, a very popular play, Arsenic and Old Lace, began its long run in American high schools. It was about two elderly ladies who poisoned their elderly gentlemen callers with elderberry wine. Periodically, a clearly manic young man who thought he was Theodore Roosevelt would come on stage with round glasses and mustache, dressed in pith helmet and shorts or army cavalry uniform. He would shout at the top of his lungs, “Charge!,” and leap up the stairs, presumably up San Juan Hill. In spite of the repetition, the line was always good for a laugh.
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Howard Beale, Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of America to World Power (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984), 50.
For a discussion of the views of Lodge and Roosevelt, see chap. 3 of William C. Widenor, Henry Cabot Lodge and the Search for an American Foreign Policy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980).
Kenneth Wimmel, Theodore Roosevelt and the Great White Fleet: American Sea Power Comes of Age (New York: Brasseys, 1998), 85–114.
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Nelson, A.K. (2001). Theodore Roosevelt, the Navy, and the War with Spain. In: Marolda, E.J. (eds) Theodore Roosevelt, the U.S. Navy, and the Spanish-American War. The Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute Series on Diplomatic and Economic History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-05501-9_1
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