Although I keep the historical figures in Empire to the generally agreed-on facts, I have changed the time of Del Hay’s defenestration from mid-night to mid-day. While the final meeting between Theodore Roosevelt and William Randolph Hearst did take place within the context of the Archbold letters, no one knows what was actually said. I like to think that my dialogue captures, if nothing else, what each felt about the other.
G.V.
March 18, 1987