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12 Sep 2017, 4:36 am
Trump is a Frankenstein’s monster of past presidents’ worst attributes: Andrew Jackson’s rage; Millard Fillmore’s bigotry; James Buchanan’s incompetence and spite; Theodore Roosevelt’s self-aggrandizement; Richard Nixon’s paranoia, insecurity, and indifference to law; and Bill Clinton’s lack of self-control and reflexive dishonesty. [read post]
6 Sep 2017, 2:44 am
On September 6, 1901, the popular President William McKinley was shot at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, while his Vice President, Theodore Roosevelt, was in Vermont at a speaking engagement. [read post]
31 Aug 2017, 2:55 pm
Photo by: Panama AmericaThe CMA CGM Theodore Roosevelt is the largest buyer that has passed through the new locks of the Panama Canal, completing a trip between Asia and the east coast of the United States.As it passed through the new locks, the ship established a new record of total allowed TEUs (20-foot containers) in the Panama Canal, with a mark of 14 thousand 863.The ship is 365.96 meters long and 48.252 meters wide. [read post]
25 Aug 2017, 9:30 pm
” TR (NYPL)Just up on YouTube is An Evening at Theodore Roosevelt's Birthplace: Theodore Roosevelt & the Constitution, a lecture by Kermit Roosevelt, III, University of Pennsylvania, sponsored by the Young Lawyers Committee of the Historical Society of the New York Courts.In the pages of the New York Times book review section: Annette Gordon-Reed (Harvard Law) on "Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson and the Ways We Talk About Our… [read post]
15 Aug 2017, 3:00 am
In 1911, former President Theodore Roosevelt told an audience in Berkeley, California, that he had decided as chief executive to ensure access to the isthmus of Panama, then part of the nation of Colombia, in order to get a canal built as the centerpiece of America’s growing global power. [read post]
9 Aug 2017, 2:50 pm
He ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic Party nomination for President of the United States in 1904 (which he resoundingly lost to Judge Alton Parker who resoundingly lost the election to the incumbent, Theodore Roosevelt). [read post]
1 Aug 2017, 1:01 am
” Root returned to his private legal practice in 1904, but answered President Theodore Roosevelt’s call to serve as his Secretary of State in 1905. [read post]
2 Jul 2017, 9:30 pm
Ernst, North Dakota School of Law, has published The Legacy of Theodore Roosevelt’s Approach to Governmental Powers, North Dakota Law Review 92 (2016): 309-363:TR 1899 (NYPL)This Article explores how Theodore Roosevelt viewed the structure of government within the United States in the late 1800s and early 1900s. [read post]
30 Jun 2017, 3:15 am
However, with McKinley’s assassination, Taft’s friend, Theodore Roosevelt, became President in 1901. [read post]
22 Jun 2017, 7:11 am
— Theodore Roosevelt: Sixth Annual Message, December 3, 1906. [read post]
19 Jun 2017, 6:59 pm
President Theodore Roosevelt put a Maxim Silencer on his 1894 Winchester lever-action rifle. [read post]
18 Jun 2017, 9:01 pm
The 1912 Progressive Party (Bull Moose) Convention, which nominated Theodore Roosevelt for President, chose him as its keynote speaker. [read post]
12 Jun 2017, 12:37 pm
The Justice Department back in 2009 decided the clause didn’t apply to the Nobel Prize and President Obama since the Nobel Prize committee didn’t represent a King, Prince, or Foreign State, and that two prior Presidents, Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, were given the same award while in office. [read post]
2 Jun 2017, 7:27 pm
The Roosevelt appointee added that Congress did not vest the Attorney General with the “discretion to pick and choose among the ideological offerings”—that is, speakers on one topic or another—rather, “the Attorney General is left only problems of national security, importation of heroin, or other like matters within his competence. [read post]
29 May 2017, 3:00 am
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19 May 2017, 7:25 am
The use of water torture divided the Army, the Senators who investigated the practice, and the nation.It was against this backdrop of controversy that President Theodore Roosevelt delivered an address to veterans of the Great Rebellion on Memorial Day in 1902, in which he promised to discover and acknowledge every instance of cruelty and barbarity, fairly punish those guilty of such crimes, and take strong action to minimize such crimes in the future. [read post]
3 May 2017, 2:30 am
“The Court’s opinion is a rejection of the common sense of the American people,” he thundered, “who have recognized a need to prevent corporations from undermining self-government since the founding, and who have fought against the distinctive corrupting potential of corporate electioneering since the days of Theodore Roosevelt. [read post]
26 Apr 2017, 4:38 pm
Theodore Roosevelt's appointment of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., was confirmed within 100 day so President Roosevelt taking office in 1901. [read post]
11 Apr 2017, 2:55 am
Former President Theodore Roosevelt couldn’t attract enough support within the reunited party, and Republican leaders saw Hughes as a moderate who could compete with President Woodrow Wilson. [read post]
6 Apr 2017, 2:30 am
Army, a step that, under the name of “preparedness,” was advocated by some of the richest and most powerful men in the land—ex-president Theodore Roosevelt foremost among them. [read post]
