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19 Jun 2008, 2:35 am
View the article hereJune 17 - June 18, 2008Tallahassee, FL - State Capitol Building(see the above link for the audio portion of this article)Day One June 17, 2008 - 8:30AM IntroductionFranchatta Barber, Florida Department of Corrections started the summit with a brief speech which included a very inspirational quote from Theodore Roosevelt. [read post]
13 Nov 2008, 2:48 am
" SCOTUS CONCLUSION: "President Theodore Roosevelt explained that “the only way in which a navy can ever be made efficient is by prac-tice at sea, under all the conditions which would have to be met if war existed. [read post]
30 Jun 2016, 10:01 am by John Chierichella and Jonathan Aronie
We grant you it is easier to garner great customer satisfaction when you are selling El Capitan’s awesome granite peaks at Yosemite, the kaleidoscopic colors of the springs and geysers at Yellowstone, or the sweeping grasslands of Theodore Roosevelt, than if you are selling toner cartridges, toilet paper, and tools. [read post]
2 Nov 2014, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
South Dakota is home to some very large sculptures, including 6,200-foot Mount Rushmore featuring the faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. [read post]
21 Feb 2024, 1:27 pm by Guest Author
Two years after signing the Antiquities Act, for example, President Theodore Roosevelt created the Grand Canyon National Monument. [read post]
3 May 2017, 2:30 am by Nicandro Iannacci
“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]
12 Jan 2017, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
In 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt nominated Holmes to the Supreme Court, a position for which he was confirmed without objection two days later. [read post]
“My favorite saying is ‘speak softly, but carry a big stick,’” Wade says, speaking of the West African proverb that was later used by Theodore Roosevelt to describe his foreign policy style. [read post]
15 Sep 2021, 6:34 am by Robert Brammer
//hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/highsm.65082 Three years after the passage of the Lacey Act, President Theodore Roosevelt established the first federal bird reservation, aimed at protecting the brown pelican from a similar fate of overhunting. [read post]
14 Oct 2021, 7:07 am by Holly Brezee
Those 18 deaths (and well over a hundred serious injuries) caught the eye of President Theodore Roosevelt, who organized a meeting between Harvard, Yale, and Princeton to review the rules of the sport in an attempt to make it safer for the participants as well as to preserve the amateur nature of the game. [read post]
4 Jul 2010, 9:14 pm
Our first WWII vet President and War Hero he was from an old line political machine yet like Theodore Roosevelt spoke like a populist. [read post]
10 Jun 2009, 12:20 am by M Bates
Ogle was responsible for three murders or to lament at the fact that he was not himself "caught in the crossfire".I am drawn to quote from a speech that was given by Theodore Roosevelt in Paris in 1910:It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. [read post]
7 Dec 2011, 2:57 pm by PunditMom
The “new, old” Obama was on display this week in Kansas, invoking the name of another populist president, Theodore Roosevelt: “I’m here in Kansas to reaffirm my deep conviction that we’re greater together than we are on our own. [read post]
28 Oct 2009, 2:14 pm by Michael Kaplen
In 1905 the game was so dangerous, regularly killing participants, that President Theodore Roosevelt summoned the coaches of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton to Washington D.C. for a summit on how to make the game safer and threatened to take action in the absence of significant reform. [read post]
30 May 2019, 10:40 am by Matthew Odgers
But a man who attends college and graduates as a lawyer might steal the whole railroad” — Theodore RooseveltStatesman, president, naturalist, conservationist, soldier, lawyer, even taxidermist — Teddy Roosevelt was very much an American Renaissance man. [read post]
18 Jul 2015, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Arthur When the 1945 death of Franklin Roosevelt propelled Vice President Truman into the presidency, Truman urged placing the Speaker, as an elected representative of his district, as well as the chosen leader of the “elected representatives of the people,” next in line to the vice president. [read post]
18 Mar 2021, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Cleveland still made his views known on political matters and consulted occasionally with President Theodore Roosevelt. [read post]
28 Dec 2006, 6:32 pm
I am related both to Theodore Roosevelt (7th cousins, 3 times removed) and Aaron Burr (3rd cousins, 7 times removed) no jokes please... according to the book Founding Fathers, it's not certain whether he or Alexander Hamilton actually fired first... [read post]
2 Apr 2018, 4:46 am by SHG
He was succeeded by his vice president, Theodore Roosevelt, for whom a statue on horseback guards the entry to Oyster Bay, Long Island. [read post]