...and has become a disaster from which we cannot easily extricate ourselves. My Republican Party is the party of Theodore Roosevelt, who fought to preserve our natural resources and environment. This president has pursued policies that will cause irreparable...
...the way was prepared by this venerable organization and others like it. A few years before the NAACP was founded, President Theodore Roosevelt's invitation of Booker T. Washington to dine at the White House was taken as an outrage and an insult in many quarters....
...a while their comments make you sit up and take notice. It's startling, for instance, to hear Taft, who at the time was Theodore Roosevelt's secretary of war, state unapologetically that "Christianity and the spread of Christianity are the only basis for hope...
...grandfather, T.P. Gore, was more or less heroic: blind, Oklahoma's first senator and a friend of Bryan and Darrow, Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. His father, Gene Vidal, was an All-American football player, World War I aviator, friend of Lindbergh...
...in 2005, originally opened in 1893 as the Grunewald. In 1923, it was rebranded as The Roosevelt in honor of President Theodore Roosevelt and retained its distinctive moniker until the hotel changed hands in 1965 and was renamed The Fairmont. The grand hotel...
...providing distribution and scale to startups, and she finished with some crowd-rousing by reading that passage from Theodore Roosevelt's 'man in the arena speech'. "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or...
...a century ago, a storied American addressed the problem of wage inequality head on. During the 1912 presidential campaign, Theodore Roosevelt proposed a living wage. According to Roosevelt, a minimum wage included enough pay to provide for education and recreation,...
...fair measure of his or her own character. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), has often expressed his admiration for former President Theodore Roosevelt. An even better measure of the character of a person, however, can be seen in how closely that individual models...
...written by Blanche Wiesen Cook, is a page-turner.) Eleanor came from wealth and prominence (her uncle was President Theodore Roosevelt), but her childhood was dismal. Orphaned before she was 10, her mother ridiculed her; her father was an alcoholic. Nevertheless,...
...active forces with its equal and opposite reaction. The militarist, even imperial avocation of an Alexander Hamilton or a Theodore Roosevelt is countered by the Jeffersonian wariness of war as the sport of tyrants. The deep religiosity of America is contrasted...