Woodrow Wilson - U.S. Presidents - HISTORY.com
On the night of September 25, on a train bound for Wichita, Kansas, Wilson collapsed from mental and physical stress, and the rest of his tour was cancelled. The Republican Party split over their choice for a presidential candidate: Conservative Republicans re-nominated President William Taft (1857-1930), while the progressive wing broke off to form the Progressive (or Bull Moose) Party and nominated Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), who had served as president from 1901 to 1909
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No one ever tells him to go soak his head when his demands become unreasonable." The president has taken more and more power at the expense of Congress. But can a president be so powerful that he or she threatens the nation's freedom? Should a president be allowed to violate the rights of the American people? Or to ignore the rights of other nations? In recent years, many people think that the president has become too strong
Theodore Roosevelt Timeline - Details on over 550 events from TR's life and writings.
July - 1897 11Cruises from Oyster Bay to Newport in a Navy torpedo boat 23Speech in Sandusky causes controversy: "The United States is not in a position which requires her to ask Japan or any other foreign power, what territory is shall or shall not acquire." August - 1897 02Secretary of Navy Long leaves DC. January - 1909 18Give speech on "The Expansion of the White Races" at African Diamond Jubilee of the Methodist Episcopal Church 22I transmitted the report of the National Conservation Commission to Congress with a special message, in which it was accurately described as "one of the most fundamentally important documents ever laid before the American people." February - 1909 12 Address at Hodgenville, Ky on the Centennial of Lincoln's birthday
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Atherton stated that in accepting this note from the German Charge d'Affaires he was merely formalizing the realization that the Government and people of this country had faced since the outbreak of the war in 1939 of the threat and purposes of the German Government and the Nazi regime toward this hemisphere and our free American civilization. Only two photographs are known to exist of FDR which were taken while he was in his wheelchair; only four seconds of film exist of the "walk" he achieved after his illness
And so, with devoted son Kermit and truly intrepid Brazilian co-commander Candido Rondon, along with a band of hardy recruits, the party plunged into the fierce, fecund jungle and its unknown dangers. Before the Republican convention, they had assured Roosevelt that if he would only accept the party's decision to let Taft run for a second term in 1912, they would happily hand him the nomination four years later
- Theodore Roosevelt Keeping the Spirit Alive The Theodore Roosevelt Association is a historical and public service organization dedicated to perpetuating the memory and ideals of Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
FDR's political career followed the same trajectory as that of his famous Republican cousin, while Eleanor would embody and extend his progressive political values. As governor, TR supported many of the causes that ER would later champion, among them centralized, interventionist government, regulation of women's and children's labor, and taxes on utility and insurance interests
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