| Show 0 FIVE MINUTE CHATS ABOUT OUR presidents by JAMES MORGAN 11 THE STRENUOUS LIFE 1858 oct 27 theodore roosevelt born in new york city 1880 graduated from harvard 1882 4 member of new york legislature 1884 6 A ranchman at medora N D 1889 95 member 4 of national civlo service commission 1895 7 member of new york police commission assistant secretary of the navy 1898 Col colonel ortel of the rough riders in cuba governor of new york 1900 elected vice president 1901 sept 14 took the oath in buffalo as the twenty fifth president aged forty two 1904 9 november elected president ROOSEVELT Mi LT was the T THEODORE most popular ot of all om ou r prest dents with the exception of lincoln US his was the ra raciest rac iest clest the most interesting character that we have had in the presidency yet lie he was horn born apart from the multitude vi horn he led and he might have lived and died a stranger to the masses of df his countrymen but for one thing re he had not the health to enjoy the life of ease case which opened to him nt at his Z rk X 41 W aw I 1 Z roosevelt as a young man birth roosevelt had to fight for his very breath la in his gasping asthmatic childhood finally he took n u postgraduate post graduate course in physical culture in the tild vest N here the four eyed tenderfoot had to fight the battle of ills his youth all aver again in a strange world with entirely different standards tor for measuring men roosevelt cut ills his eye teeth in political leadership in the corrupt ma chine run legislature of 0 new york lie he could dot no have chosen a more thorough school for instruction in the hidden muddy springs of parties and pol poi itice his experience at albany put realism into his idealism and made the academic reformer over into the most intensely practical politician we have hild had in the presidency he decided at the outset to act in each office loftice as it if it was to be the last that lie ever would get and for nearly 15 years after he left the legislature roosevelt could not have bave been elected to anything in the boss ridden state of new york for a long time lie he was shelved on oil the civil service commission at washington until a reform mayor of new york appointed him on the four headed police commission but it was soon single headed so far as ill the public could see and that head was war full of teeth for police gratt graft ers and lawbreakers at thirty eight beigh t the most he could ask of the republican politicians wl with th any hope of getting it was the assistant of the navy the entire administration sighed with relief N when hen at last he be went off to lead his rough riders Ill ders in five months lie he was back from cuba in the far more troublesome role of a popular hero the new york machine was in such sore need of a good name it election that it met hirn him at the wharf and humbly laid at ills his feet the republican nomination for governor but in the governorship lie he realized the alie worst fears of boss platt that lie he harbored us lis the boss naively wrote him various altruistic ideas and that he was a little loose on the relations of capital and labor nu nn trusts and combinations and the right of a man to run ills his own business in his own way the only thing to do with this wild engine was to turn the switch and it on to the side trad track of the vice presidency roosevelt loudly protested that he winte to be reelected elected re governor and whilo while platt was mryr to push puh blin ori on to 0 o the national ticket and blanna just ns its earl lesly tried to push him back on oil to platt the republican natio nii contention rase t up it and conred ills his nomination ailin lii in spite pito i of himself upon ie tide liitt hat led to fortune tor tune THE BIG STICK i 0 1903 february 6 roosevelt induced great britain and germany to arbitrate with venezuela november the panama revolution 1905 may 12 brought russia and japan to agree to discuss peace august 29 the peace of portsmouth 1806 1906 roosevelt awarded the nobel peace prize 1918 january 6 death of theodore roosevelt aged six sixty t Y 0 astill AT T the crackling croc Kling of a twig in the still depths of the adirondack mountains roosevelt turned to see a guide coming out of the woods with the unexpected news that McKin mckinless leys condition was uns although lie he hastened to buffalo the president had died 13 hours before the vice president arrived at the outset of Roosevel ts administration a fearful citizen begged the rough rider not to permit his fighting in spirit to plunge the country into an international war what the pre president exclaimed A 1 war and I 1 cooped up here in the white house never 1 many forgot the first half of the old motto that roosevelt loosevelt Hoo sevelt made his own speak ak softly and carry a big stick no man ever had a simpler faith in the efficacy of first talking it over nan iran n an fashion with tin an adversary whether a senator or an ambassador the meddlesome german kaiser was the earliest to feel the big stick to see if it wag wa aly only stuffed with straw germany and a tory government of england were oh ian the oi 0 selling seizing territory as a security tl for some claims against venezuelan citizens wilen when roosevelt succeeded in dissuading england from such a riep but he failed to induce germany to arbitrate the matter thereupon lie he told the german ambassador that unless the berlin government consented to arbitration in ten lays days lie he would send admiral dewey to stop the germans front from landing in venezuela the ambassador protesting that the kaiser could not back down now roosevelt replied that he was not arguing with him but was telling him what would happen after walting waiting a week wit without holic an answer from berlin he be told the ambassador bas that lie he was going to cut the limit to nine days and that unless germany agreed in 48 hours to arbitrate dewey would sail in 30 hours the ambassador came back with a message announcing that germany consented in good tinie time roosevelt employed the influence of his unique position before the world to bring to nn an end tho russo japanese war shrewdly choosing clio osing the right moment to step in lie he appealed to the two belligerents with a common sense and a simple directness that a friend would use in bringing together two quarreling lip neighbors afterward he steered the peace conference nt at portsmouth against its will ill steadily toward a peace of recon cil ci littlon lation an impatient russian declaring that his hig steel wrist hammered out a treaty that neither of the powers wanted at that time aud and that the terrible Amt american rican president il II was capable of locking the conferees W T 0 H r 1 ekr n J x edith carow roosevelt into a room and starving them into submission instead of starting a war the big stick stopped the only great war that broke out in the period of its sway while the Roosevel rio ts wore were its ten tints the white houie hoube was an example and the center of the simple family life of america not t Z second rate palace the president said but the home of a self respecting american el citizen A few months after graduating at harvard arvard II roosevelt married miss alice hathaway lee of 0 boston aiom ile he alad met in ills his college days tills this bride of his youth pak sed arnin arnin life as her ber daughter mrs ainoo allpa roosevelt longworth en terca it yearly scarly three years afterward III h sailed arnin new N york directly follow ins ilig tin an unsuccessful campaign foi masor maior 0 o marry a friend find and neighbor of ilir his childhood miss edith kermit carow who was sojourning sojo in europe right by james moreau tl orean |
