(aloud)
so gallantly strove to accomplish.
PRESIDENT:
What’s that got to do with it, idiot? A broad-minded statesman (behold him!)
O’erlooks, like a man on a stepladder, trivial and transient advantage,
Discerning the meaning and menace of methods that mark the achievement.
Not once in all the proceedings that led to this hardy alliance
Was uttered, or written, or thought of, the name of Theodore Roosevelt!
[Exit.]
ROOT (solus):