This is CBS Eye in the World. I'm John Dacha with New Lankto. His new book is The

Approaching Storm. Roosevelt, Wilson, Adams, the three progressives of the beginning of

the 20th century, know each other very well and maneuver in public. Everything's in

public. They write letters, they're published, they headlines, are all filled with what Wilson

says, what TR says, what Jane Adams is done in Europe. When she visited Vienna and commented

on the horse rib sticking out because they were starving, that made it into the newspapers.

When she sailed back to home, there was concern about her safety because of the German summaries.

These were daily conversation pieces in the big city, especially in New York, which was

10% of the population. And America is now the richest country on the planet. So all of

these are not backwaters. These are major decisions. And we come to the winter of 1915,

1916. And we start with Teddy Roosevelt because he has been, well, you can fill in the blanks

of what he thinks about Wilson, keep writing strong notes to Berlin. And he's already

disdained Jane Adams as naive or worse. So in January and February of 1916, the winter

time, is he planning to run for the presidency? Does he open relations again with the party he

rejected? Do they welcome him, Neil? There were signs that he was moving in that direction.

I mean, he felt for a long time that no one was listening to him because the great cause he

had been involved with since the war began was what they called preparedness, being prepared

militarily because our country was so limited in its military power. We had 100,000 men or

something like that. Well, our navy was decent size. So he had been preaching that message.

It was starting to catch on in late 1915. We have to lose the table. People started to realize

that there was some worth in what he was saying. And by the end of the year, you have papers

like the New York Tribune endorsing him for president, which was a big shock because New York

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