American Experience makes a Facebook presence. On July 1, they posted one of my favorite photos of Teddy Roosevelt (and one of the more famous):
And started the ball rolling that would make Teddy Roosevelt the only person ever to receive the Nobel Prize for Peace, and the Medal of Honor for war.
What an interesting character.
P.S. — TR resigned his job as Asst. Secretary of the Navy to enlist; told that there was no group for him to lead, he proceeded to recruit fellow Harvard Law classmates, and fellow South Dakota cowboys, to form the roughriders. Wouldn’t you love to have sat around a campfire with THAT group?
The horses of the Rough Riders were stuck on a ship in the harbor when they made this assault. Famous for riding horses, their reputation was earned on foot, with their horses on a boat.
You couldn’t make that stuff up for a fictional account.
It was a short war; by the end of the year TR was back in New York, wangling to get elected governor, which he did. His do-good, reformer ways rubbed the corrupt GOP machine the wrong way, however, and when William McKinley’s Vice President Garret A. Hobart died, they seized the opportunity to bury Roosevelt forever; they got him nominated vice president for McKinley’s second term. They probably remembered, and thought always true, that old Mark Twain story, about the poor widow who had two sons: One went off to sea, and the other was elected vice president, and neither was ever heard from again.
Assassination struck for the third time in our presidential history. By the end of 1901, Teddy Roosevelt was President of the United States.
Just like Teddy to ride into history, too impatient to wait for a horse to ride on.
Posted by Ed Darrell 
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