ROBERT J. McCARTHY
Once a year, many people who portray Theodore Roosevelt gather in the place where Roosevelt himself called “The place where the romance of my life began” – Medora, North Dakota. This was the second time of my attending the event. It can feel a bit like a mirror has been held up and...
When Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt assumed the presidency in 1901, he was 42 and theyoungest Presidentin American history (a distinction he still holds over a century later). Despite his age, Roosevelt harbored a mature understanding of his position, believing that the President was a “steward ...
Roosevelt Believed Individual Self-Determination Was Possible Roosevelt maintained that although white men held firm at the top of the social hierarchy, “inferior” races could rise from their lower stations. “Roosevelt believed that individuals could learn positive traits within their lifetime and ass...
February 14, 1884Martha “Mittie” Stewart Bulloch Roosevelt (Mother) dies in New York City, New York. (She would die a few hours before Teddy’s wife) February 14, 1884Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt (First Wife) dies in New York City, New York. (Complications from child birth) ...
in 1884. His wife died two days later after an undiagnosed case of kidney failure. His mother died had just died shortly before that. Roosevelt was devastated. He wrote in his journal “the light has gone out of my life”. He sent his daughter to live with his sister while he grieved...
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Teddy Roosevelt and his fifth cousin expanded the modern presidency and put the federal government to work for the people in a way it never had been before. "The Constitution was made for the people, not the people for the Constitution," TR said. It is sometimes said that presidents make ...
When Roosevelt grasped the hand of Joe Murray, the savvy political boss who had first nominated him for the state legislature years before, it must have seemed as if his public life had come full circle. "This takes me back 29 years," he said, "to the old Twenty-first Assembly district...
Roosevelt saw the trip as perhaps his “last chance for something in the nature of a great adventure,” and he devoted the last months of his lame-duck presidency to little other than making preparations. Equipment needed to be purchased, routes mapped, guns and ammo sel...