thoroughlyunderstand and appreciate Lincoln. TR responded: Dear John, Surely no other President, on the eve of his inauguration, has ever receivedsuch a gift from such a friend. I am wearing the ring now; I shall think of it and you as Itake the oath tomorrow. I wonder if you have any idea what… … r TR wore the ring on March 4,1905 when he was inaugurated. He had, of course, become Presidentin 1901 when President William McKinley was assassinated, and now had been elected in his own right. Edmund Morris, in his new book Theodore Rex, says this was the first time TR had used theword love in…
