" Corinne suggested a different reason, indicating that her dying father had expressed concern about Theodore’s intimacy with Edith, given Charles Carow’s fiscal and temperamental instability. If Theodore discussed the issue with Edith that night, he might well have triggered the volatility that he would obscurely explain to Bamie as a clash of tempers “that were far from being of the best. "

― Doris Kearns Goodwin , The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism