The Man in the Arena @TRtheTitan
Dedicated to sharing the actions and words of Theodore Roosevelt, an American original. Bully! Companion account to @triviapotus Joined September 2020-
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Theodore Roosevelt and his sons sitting still for a photograph, a minor miracle. smithsonianmag.com/history/first-…
#OTD in 1865, 6-year-old Theodore Roosevelt and his brother, Elliott, watched Abraham Lincoln's New York City funeral procession from the window of their grandfather's home. nytimes.com/2014/05/22/ups…
#OTD in 1898, Theodore Roosevelt was appointed lieutenant colonel of the First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry Regiment. theodorerooseveltcenter.org/Learn-About-TR…
“At Sagamore Hill we love a great many things – birds and trees and books, and all things beautiful, and horses and rifles and children and hard work and the joy of life.” – Theodore Roosevelt npshistory.com/brochures/sahi…
“Only four more weeks of grinding, thank goodness.” - Harvard student Theodore Roosevelt in his diary, #OTD in 1878 theodorerooseveltcenter.org/Research/Digit…
#OTD in 1903, President Roosevelt attended the laying of the Roosevelt Arch cornerstone at Yellowstone National Park. “Nowhere else in any civilized country is there to be found such a tract of veritable wonderland.” theodorerooseveltcenter.org/Research/Digit…
“I never won anything without hard labor and the exercise of my best judgment and careful planning and working long in advance.” - Theodore Roosevelt in his autobiography google.com/books/edition/…
Theodore Roosevelt was a voracious reader, averaging a book a day even while president. He also wrote dozens of books. #WorldBookDay theodorerooseveltcenter.org/Learn-About-TR…
"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 better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.” - Theodore Roosevelt, #OTD in 1910 worldfuturefund.org/Documents/mani…
“I have already lived and enjoyed as much of life as nine other men I know; I have had my full share, and if it is necessary for me to leave my bones in South America, I am quite ready to do so.” - TR writing about the River of Doubt expedition smithsonianmag.com/history/teddy-…
During his presidency, Theodore Roosevelt established approximately 230 million acres of public lands, including 150 national forests, 51 federal bird reserves, 4 national game preserves, 5 national parks, and 18 national monuments. #EarthDay nps.gov/thro/learn/his…
"We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so.” - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1907 #EarthDay presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/seve…
“I suppose every man tends to brag about his regiment; but it does seem to me that there never was a regiment better worth bragging about than ours.” – Theodore Roosevelt in his autobiography #RoughRiders google.com/books/edition/…
“If there is any human being in this country with whom I do not sympathize, it is the type of office individual who has a roll of red tape in place of a gizzard.” - President Roosevelt, #OTD in 1904 theodorerooseveltcenter.org/Research/Digit…
#OTD in 1909, Theodore Roosevelt and his son Kermit arrived in Mombasa, Kenya and began the Smithsonian Roosevelt African Expedition. They returned to the U.S. in June of the following year. guides.loc.gov/chronicling-am…
“To turn this Government either into government by a plutocracy or government by a mob would be to repeat on a larger scale the lamentable failures of the world that is dead.” - Theodore Roosevelt, 1912 teachingamericanhistory.org/document/the-r…
“I have lost the only human being to whom I told everything, never failing to get loving advice and sweet sympathy in return.” - Theodore Roosevelt writing in his diary about his father, #OTD in 1878 theodorerooseveltcenter.org/Research/Digit…
“A man whose business is sedentary should get some kind of exercise if he wishes to keep himself in as good physical trim as his brethren who do manual labor.” - Theodore Roosevelt in his autobiography google.com/books/edition/…
“Roosevelt’s obsession with physical fitness gave him an aura of perpetual youthfulness.” - Historian Nathan Miller in “Theodore Roosevelt: A Life” google.com/books/edition/…
#OTD in 1915, a libel suit against Theodore Roosevelt began in Syracuse, New York. The jury ruled in TR’s favor on May 22nd. theodorerooseveltcenter.org/Blog/Item/A%20…
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