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Learned lessons in the Badlands
“Took the snob out of me”
Love of the open land Shaped future policies
Marriage to Edith Tales of Teddy
Roosevelt and his six children (only five in this picture because Quentin is not yet born)
President of the NYC Board of Police Commissioners
Already a “mover and a shaker” and a friend of the common man
Family picture at Sagamore Hill in Oyster Bay on Long Island, New York
Stories of Roosevelt’s enjoyment of his children
Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose. But fortunately I had my manuscript, so you see I was going to make a long speech, and there is a bullet - there is where the bullet went through - and it probably saved me from it going into my heart. The bullet is in me now, so that I cannot make a very long speech, but I will try my best.
National Parks, National Forests, game and bird preserves, and other federal reservations
230,000,000 acres
President Theodore Roosevelt at Yosemite in 1903.
"Leave it as it is. You can not improve on it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it."
“We draw the line against misconduct, not against wealth.”
Work to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits"
Northern Securities (Railroads) Coal Strike of 1902
•Threats to have army run mines Roosevelt the “Trust Buster”
Meeting of the Big Three
American Football Rules Committee was formed
Rules to make the game less dangerous
First to invite an African American to a White House dinner
First to have Secret Service protection
First to win Nobel Peace Prize for his work towards ending the Russo-Japanese War
First to take trip outside the United States
First to give an open invitation to the press
First to be submerged in a submarine, to own a car, to have a telephone in his home, and to be allowed to operate the light switches in the White House
The “Progressive Bull Moose” loses in 1912
Life goes on Theodore
Roosevelt at the wedding of his daughter Ethel to Richard Derby.
Agony over the death of Quentin in World War I
"Grandfather" Roosevelt hugs baby granddaughter Edith Roosevelt Derby, 1918.