Roosevelt's writings Author:Theodore Roosevelt Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE PRESIDENCY On September 6, 1901, President McKinley0 was shot by an Anarchist in the city of Buffalo. I went to Buffalo at once. The President's condition... more » seemed to be improving, and after a day or two we were told that he was practically out of danger. I then joined my family, who 5 were in the Adirondacks, near the foot of Mount Tahawus. A day or two afterwards we took a long tramp through the forest, and in the afternoon I climbed Mount Tahawus. After reaching the top I had descended a few hundred feet to a shelf of land where there was a little lake, when I10 saw a guide coming out of the woods on our trail from below. I felt at once that he had bad news, and, sure enough, he handed me a telegram saying that the President's condition was much worse and that I must come to Buffalo immediately. It was late in the afternoon, and darkness is had fallen by the time I reached the club-house where we were staying. It was some tune afterwards before I could get a wagon to drive me out to the nearest railway station, North Creek, some forty or fifty miles distant. The roads were the ordinary wilderness roads and the night was dark. 20 But we changed horses two or three times—when I say "we" I mean the driver and I, as there was no one else with us—and reached the station just at dawn, to learn from Mr. Loeb,0 who had a special train waiting, that the President was dead. That evening I took the oath of 25 office, in the house of Ansley Wilcox, at Buffalo. I at once announced that I would continue unchanged McKinley's policies for the honor and prosperity of the country, and asked all the members of the Cabinet to stay. There were no changes made among them save as changes were made among their successors whom I myself appointed. I continued Mr. McKinley's policies, s cha...« less