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Historical Christmas Ornament
Theodore Roosevelt -2011
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"The White House"
Historical Christmas Ornament
Theodore Roosevelt -2011
Price: $24.00
Code: WH-46330
The 2011 White House Ornament celebrates the term
of our 26th president Theodore Roosevelt,
1901-1909.
The 2011 Official White House ornament honors
the administration of Theodore Roosevelt( 1901-1909.)
TR, our 26th president, is considered the first
modern President because he significantly expanded
the influence and power of the executive office.
From the Civil War to the turn of the twentieth
century, the seat of power in the national
government resided in the U.S. Congress.
Beginning in the 1880s, the executive branch
gradually increased its power.
Theodore and Edith Roosevelt had six children:
Alice, Theodore Jr., Kermit, Ethel, Archibald
and Quentin.
Size:
3" x 2-1/2" tall.
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Our 26 President Theodore Roosevelt.
Theodore Roosevelt With the assassination of President
McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, not quite 43, became
the youngest President in the Nation's history.
He brought new excitement and power to the Presidency,
as he vigorously led Congress and the American public
toward progressive reforms and a strong
foreign policy.
He took the view that the President as a "steward
of the people" should take whatever action necessary
for the public good unless expressly forbidden by law
or the Constitution.
" I did not usurp power,"
he wrote, "but I did greatly broaden the use of
executive power."
Roosevelt's youth differed sharply from that of
the log cabin Presidents. He was born in New York City
in 1858 into a wealthy family, but he too
struggled--against ill health--and in his triumph
became an advocate of the strenuous life.
In 1884 his first wife, Alice Lee Roosevelt,
and his mother died on the same day.
Roosevelt spent much of the next two years on his
ranch in the Badlands of Dakota Territory.
There he mastered his sorrow as he lived in the saddle,
driving cattle, hunting big game--he even captured
an outlaw.
On a visit to London, he married Edith Carow in
December 1886.
During the Spanish-American War, Roosevelt was
lieutenant colonel of the Rough Rider Regiment,
which he led on a charge at the battle of San Juan.
He was one of the most conspicuous heroes
of the war.
Boss Tom Platt, needing a hero to draw attention
away from scandals in New York State, accepted
Roosevelt as the Republican candidate for Governor
in 1898.
Roosevelt won and served with distinction.
As President, Roosevelt held the ideal that the
Government should be the great arbiter of the
conflicting economic forces in the Nation,
especially between capital and labor, guaranteeing
justice to each and dispensing favors to none.
Roosevelt emerged spectacularly as a "trust buster"
by forcing the dissolution of a great railroad
combination in the Northwest.
Other antitrust suits under the Sherman Act
followed.
Roosevelt steered the United States more actively
into world politics.
He liked to quote a favorite proverb,
"Speak softly and carry a big stick. . . . "
Aware of the strategic need for a shortcut between
the Atlantic and Pacific, Roosevelt ensured the
construction of the Panama Canal.
His corollary to the Monroe Doctrine prevented the
establishment of foreign bases in the Caribbean and
arrogated the sole right of intervention in Latin
America to the United States.
He won the Nobel Peace Prize for mediating the
Russo-Japanese War, reached a Gentleman's Agreement
on immigration with Japan, and sent the Great White
Fleet on a goodwill tour of the world.
Some of Theodore Roosevelt's most effective
achievements were in conservation.
He added enormously to the national forests in the West,
reserved lands for public use, and fostered great
irrigation projects.
He crusaded endlessly on matters big and small,
exciting audiences with his high-pitched voice,
jutting jaw, and pounding fist.
"The life of strenuous endeavor" was a must for
those around him, as he romped with his five younger
children and led ambassadors on hikes through Rock
Creek Park in Washington, D.C.
Leaving the Presidency in 1909, Roosevelt went on an
African safari, then jumped back into politics.
In 1912 he ran for President on a Progressive
ticket.
To reporters he once remarked that he felt as fit as
a bull moose, the name of his new party.
While campaigning in Milwaukee, he was shot in the
chest by a fanatic.
Roosevelt soon recovered, but his words at that
time would have been applicable at the time of his
death in 1919:
"No man has had a happier life than I have led; a
happier life in every way."
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