And again, in another letter on July 21, he says: “For six years I have been, I believe, emphatically right, emphatically the servant of the best interests of the American people; but just as emphatically,—the American people have 307 steadily grown to think less and less of me, and more definitely determined not to use me in any public position, and it is their affair after all.
— from My Brother, Theodore Roosevelt by Corinne Roosevelt Robinson