We're now on the 25th day of my daily presidents threads celebrating the 250th anniversary of the USA.Today we have Theodore Roosevelt (10/27/1858 - 1/6/1919), who served as president after McKinley's assassination from 1901 to 1908. Prior to being president he served in the Spanish-American War, as the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Governor of New York, and on the NYC Board of Police Commissioners. He later attempted to run again for the Populist Party in 1912, but lost and later led an expedition into the Amazon. During said campaign he survived an assassination attempt. Notable actions or events during his presidency include the completion of the Panama Canal and its opening alongside the secession of Panama from Colombia, the cooling of relations with Russia, Big Stick Diplomacy, the Square Deal domestic policies, Numerous Antitrust Legislations, the establishment of many National Forests and Parks and widespread adoption of Environmental Conservation, the Great White Fleet, ending the Russo-Japanese War, the Pure Food and Drug Act, the Occupation of the Philippines, the Venezuelan Crisis, the Roosevelt Corollary, the Santo Domingo Affair, inventing the Presidential Press Briefing, the Brownsville Affair, the First Moroccan Crisis, and the Panic of 1907What do you think of the bull moose?
>>18528680Good guy but splitting the vote and letting Wilson win was retarded
iconic look on this guy
>During the California school crisis of 1907, war with Japan threatened as the state passed discriminatory policies against Japanese school students. Roosevelt resolved the situation diplomatically and then made a bold move by ordering the entire US battleship fleet, sixteen ships, on a voyage around the world to impress American naval might on it. The fleet was greeted warmly when it made ports of call, even in Japan. Some critics opposed the voyage arguing that it was an unnecessary bit of saber-rattling. Others feared that sending the fleet away would leave the East Coast undefended and exposed to a surprise attack by one of the European powers.
>TR succeeded the slain McKinley as Republican bosses had apparently never considered the idea of him being president. Since he was know for impulsiveness and radicalism, he sought to assure everyone he would continue McKinley's policies ("to the gutter," some critics carped). The youngest president ever at age 42, he was a ball of energy and drove himself relentlessly, believing it was better to burn out than rust away. His reputation as a radical was overblown, he was really just a little left of center and actively detested socialism. A staunch party man, he knew how to bargain with Congress rather than fight them to a stalemate; unlike Grover Cleveland he was able to work with party bosses even when he didn't enjoy it.
>the Venezuelan Crisislol
Points knocked off for creating the FDA based on a socialist writer's work of fiction.
>>18528680Us president with the best political cartoons. They really loved him those artists. He is also apperantly why we called teddy bears teddy bears
>>18528892Sinclair was also upset with that since he claimed he wasn't calling for the meat industry to be regulated by the government, but for the workers to rise up in revolt against big capital.
>>18528693To hell with Taft and the GOP. Taft wanted to create a totally private central bank, and stated this plan publically. It would be even worse than the Fed. >>18528892Enjoy the rat hair and talcum powder cut into your flour then anon. The doctor on the label here says it's good for rheumatism and "the shakes".
>>18528935that's still basically how it works except you pay the FDA a tax disguised as a certification fee and you can peddle any sketchy medication you want.
>In a 1911 speech, Roosevelt said of the Panama Canal, "Were I to do things in the traditional way, I would have drafted a long, carefully-worded proposal, submitted it to Congress, and they would still be debating it today. Instead, I took matters into my own hands. And so the work on the canal goes on and so do the debates."
>>18528921Old school political cartoons are fun. Makes me wonder if there's any books that compile historical political cartoons about presidents
>Roosevelt was nominated in 1904 unopposed despite somewhat lukewarm support from the Republican establishment; the only possible rival was Mark Hanna but he died early in the year. The president was compelled to accept as his running mate the ultra-standpatter Indiana Senator Charles Fairbanks. After Roosevelt's crushing electoral landslide over the anemic Democrat candidate Alton Parker, he rashly declared that he had served most of McKinley's term, so he would consider this a second term and not run again in 1908 ("I would cut my own hand off to take back that promise" he said later). The power of the king wanes when his subjects know he will die soon.
TR was an insecure manlet who had fantasies about being a European nobleman.
>>18528892to be fair TR was as much disgusted by the awful army food he'd eaten in the Spanish-American War
>Leaving office at only 50 was a mistake--an ex-president's life is an anticlimax and Roosevelt was still so young and full of energy. He departed to a safari in Africa, his enemies proclaiming "A toast to the lions!"
>>18528680The best one>>18528883OP probably is referring to Panamanian independence
>>18529411He was nervous on Election Day as he didn't know what would happen, there was no reliable way to predict an election back then.
>>18529646>OP probably is referring to Panamanian independenceIt's the second one OP is referring to. Roosevelt established his titular Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine by directly involving America into debt disputes between Latin American nations and European powers.
>>18528932Many stopped reading before the big yapping rant at the end that felt out of place with the rest of the story’s more family focused approach.
>>18528680>What do you think of the bull moose?A few years back I was on a back Theodore Roosevelt kick, and I read pretty much everything he ever wrote, including his hunting books, diary, etc. And even the diary of his children, and books written by his childrenI will say that Roosevelt was an anomaly that could only exist in that specific time frame. He was a monarchist who loved democracy, a bully and a nerd, a proto-fascist with sympathy towards socialism, a scientific atheist Calvinist who can quote the Bible as easily as Darwin. He loved animals whilst happily slaughtering them by the thousands. He could have been the greatest author or professor of his day. He was a mixed bag. He never really held a single, resolute opinion. He was the ultimate flip-flopper. But he did it so well. He could only exist in that time frame. His character, personality, opinions, ideas, drive, destiny, etc doesn't work anywhere else but where he was born.He is a one of a kind for that reason. And he did that so wellI really believe he committed suicide.
>>18528070>>18528680Teddy Roosevelt charged up San Juan Hill
>>18528932meat processing plants are still filthy shitheaps. all that happens is an FDA inspector will come by every couple of years prior to which the plant will scrub everything down with bleach to pass inspection. absolute joke it is.
TR somewhat unfortunately inaugurated an era of lunkheaded militarism when it came to dealing with Latin America that did nothing but provide anti-US propaganda for generations of communists. This went until Hoover and FDR adopted a more diplomatic approach to Latin American relations.
>>18528680Roosevelt was an arrogant spastic that could have been a Kaiser Wilhelm tier joke if not for the US being isolated from the world. But because of that he went down as a legend because every one of his mercurial gambits paid off. Except for his attempt to get reelected.
