Theodore Roosevelt

THEODORE THEODORE ROOSEVELTROOSEVELT

2626thth president president

RepublicanRepublican

1901-19081901-1908

“A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.”

From sad beginnings to a new lifeFrom sad beginnings to a new life

““that damned cowboy is president that damned cowboy is president now.”now.”

Bully PulpitBully Pulpit

Square DealSquare Deal

ConservationConservation

Consumer ConcernsConsumer Concerns

CorporationsCorporations•Trust Buster

Coal StrikeCoal Strike

11stst “Progressive” President “Progressive” President

save the country from trusts from save the country from trusts from above and socialism from belowabove and socialism from below

Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick!Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick!

Nobel Peace Prize WinnerNobel Peace Prize Winner• Treaty of Portsmouth

Roosevelt CorollaryRoosevelt Corollary

Panama CanalPanama Canal

Philippe Bunau-VarillaPhilippe Bunau-Varilla

• USS OREGON

Where to build???Where to build???

Hay-Pauncefote treaty

Hay-Buneu-Varilla treaty

We stole it fair and square!We stole it fair and square!

• How it works

1904 election1904 election

Panic of 1907Panic of 1907

• The perfect storm!

• Copper market

• SF earthquake

• War costs

Gentleman’s AgreementGentleman’s Agreement

Great White Great White FleetFleet

I’m out!I’m out!

• Only 50 and

now retired!

Dined with Booker T Washington in Dined with Booker T Washington in the White Housethe White House

Interesting factsInteresting facts• Teddy Bear

• “good to the last drop”• Blind in left eye!

• Kids in the White House• Lincoln penny-1909

• First president to ride in a car,

fly in a plane, diving in a submarine, • travel outside of the U.S.

while president

More…More…

• “nuthing escapes Mr. Rucevelt. No subject is tu hi fr him to takl, no tu lo for him tu notis.” – wants to create simplified spelling!

1910 speech1910 speech

• It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

Other eventsOther events

Princess AlicePrincess Alice

• The other Washington

Monument

My father always My father always wanted the bride wanted the bride at every wedding, at every wedding, the baby at every the baby at every christening, and christening, and

the corpse at the corpse at every funeral.every funeral.

"The old lion is dead." 1/6/1919"The old lion is dead." 1/6/1919

• He was 61 years old

• 1912 assassination attempt

• Caught fever in Brazil from leg wound, 1914

• Youngest son, Quentin WWI pilot died in July