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30 Oct 2009, 5:01 pm
HAPPY HALLOWEENHere is one of our favourite presidential trivia questions that popped up on Final Jeopardy Friday Night:Name the only president who has the same double letter occurrence in their first and last name : The double letters must be in order- for instance if you answer Theodore Roosevelt you would be wrong because while there are two "O"'s in Theodore, they aren't double in the same way they are in Roosevelt. [read post]
30 Oct 2009, 6:15 am
"Leaders of all political parties, starting over a century ago with President Theodore Roosevelt, have called and fought for health care and health insurance reform," Pelosi said. [read post]
28 Oct 2009, 2:14 pm
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]
27 Oct 2009, 11:46 pm
They point to the example of President Theodore Roosevelt, who created a committee, including the Chief Justice, to hold Roosevelt's Nobel Peace Prize money in trust until he left office. [read post]
20 Oct 2009, 12:43 am
One of long list of things I admire about this man was his ability to read:When Theodore Roosevelt did things, he did them with gusto. [read post]
17 Oct 2009, 5:22 pm
Sociologist Elise Boulding has said that we live in a “200 year present,” a “social space which reaches into the past and into the future” -- a space in which “we can move around directly in our own lives and indirectly by touching the lives of the young and old around us. [read post]
16 Oct 2009, 4:11 pm
But prior presidents have received similar prizes--Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. [read post]
16 Oct 2009, 9:42 am
But Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson received the honor for their past actions: Roosevelt's efforts to end the Russo-Japanese War, and Wilson's work in establishing the League of Nations. [read post]
13 Oct 2009, 12:01 am
Or one could list past US Presidents who received the award -- Jimmy Carter, Woodrow Wilson, and Theodore Roosevelt -- not an impressive lot (although Roosevelt did help to end a war). [read post]
12 Oct 2009, 8:00 am
IN THE MAIL: From Theodore Roosevelt Malloch, Thrift: Rebirth Of A Forgotten Virtue. [read post]
12 Oct 2009, 2:59 am
" President Theodore Roosevelt sent native Californian Victor Metcalf, the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, to urge school officials to rescind the order. [read post]
11 Oct 2009, 2:59 am
On March 17, 1905, her uncle, President Theodore Roosevelt, stood in as father of the bride at the wedding of Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. [read post]
9 Oct 2009, 11:21 am
George Will, before the Nobel Peace Prize: Presidents often come to be characterized by particular adjectives: "honest" Abe Lincoln, "Grover the Good" Cleveland, "energetic" Theodore Roosevelt, "idealistic" Woodrow Wilson, "Silent Cal" Coolidge, "confident" FDR, "likable" Ike Eisenhower. [read post]
9 Oct 2009, 8:33 am
Three previous Presidents were awarded the prize for this reason: Theodore Roosevelt (1906) for brokering peace between Japan and Russia; Woodrow Wilson (1919) for his work as the principal architect of the League of Nations; and Jimmy Carter (2002) for his work in promoting peace, human rights and democracy. [read post]
9 Oct 2009, 7:26 am
Only two other U.S. presidents have won the Peace Prize -- Theodore Roosevelt in 1906 and Jimmy Carter in 2002. [read post]
9 Oct 2009, 4:00 am
Presidents that have received the award:2002 - Jimmy Carter -- former1919 - Woodrow Wilson -- sitting1906 - Theodore Roosevelt - sitting A list of all Nobel peace laureates is here: [nobelprize.org]See also: Coverage by the NY Times, President Obama's full remarks [read post]
4 Sep 2009, 2:48 pm
Some say it was done as a matter of political reform, to curb the growing power of corporations in politics — that is, the capacity of Big Business to “buy” influence, a reality demonstrated back then by what was known as the New York Life Insurance scandals over secret corporate donations to Theodore Roosevelt’s campaign in 1904. [read post]
16 Aug 2009, 4:19 pm
Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907. [read post]
10 Aug 2009, 2:22 pm
" She opens the confidential folder and pulls out a Five O'Clock Club booklet titled "How to Terminate Employees While Respecting Human Dignity," which includes inspirational quotes about compassion from Theodore Roosevelt, George Lucas and the Dalai Lama. [read post]
9 Aug 2009, 3:11 am
"How a city-born child of privilege became one of the greatest forces in American conservation is the subject of Douglas Brinkley's vast, inspiring and enormously entertaining book, 'The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America,'" writes Jonathan Rosen in the New York Times. [read post]
