Excerpt from The Man Roosevelt: A Portrait Sketch In justice to all concerned it should be noted that no one but myself is responsible for the contents of this volume. Not a line of it has been submitted to Mr. Roosevelt for his ap proval; he is not my authority for a single state ment about himself or anybody else except where I have tried to quote him, and even my citations of his words are wholly from memory. If he has been misrepresented anywhere the fault is mine, not his, since I have scrupulously avoided consulting him on subjects which I could treat frankly on my own account, but which it might embarrass him to discuss. Moreover, in trying to state his position on public questions with absolute fairness, I would not be understood as always sharing it. The sole point kept in view has been to write facts, leaving the morals to draw themselves. Know ing that it is the subject, and not the author, in whom the public is interested, I have striven to 'keep my picture as free as possible from di dactic color. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.