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1 Oct 2020, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Elihu Root, born in 1845, was an American lawyer and statesman who served as Secretary of War for both William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. [read post]
13 Sep 2020, 4:08 pm by lennyesq
. *** Theodore Roosevelt called the presidency a “bully pulpit” — but President Trump takes the concept to a new level, using his office to ridicule and insult his critics and opponents. [read post]
7 Sep 2020, 11:11 am
" Since it's founding, Congress has passed two major revisions of copyright law: the Copyright Act of 1909 (President Theodore Roosevelt) and the Copyright Act of 1976 (President Gerald Ford). [read post]
18 Aug 2020, 2:00 am by vrose
The American Museum of Natural History has requested that the City of New York remove the statue of Theodore Roosevelt from its front stoop. [read post]
17 Aug 2020, 7:00 am by Peter Tragos
Arthur, Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Harry S. [read post]
15 Aug 2020, 3:00 am by NCC Staff
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, to get a canal built as the centerpiece of America’s growing global power. [read post]
7 Aug 2020, 3:24 pm by Sandy Levinson
  A committee appointed by Mayor Bill de Blasio to consider a number of New York monuments, including those of  Christopher Columbus in Columbus Circle and of Theodore Roosevelt in front of the Museum of Natural History, recommended that reference to the “Canyon of Heroes” be removed from all 206 of the various plaques recognizing those who had received ticker-tape parades. [read post]
31 Jul 2020, 7:20 am by Ronald Collins
“[A] man of high ambitions … must face the loneliness of original work. [read post]
28 Jul 2020, 4:56 am
But during the unrest that followed Floyd’s killing in May, the monument was tagged with anti-police slogans, expletives and other graffiti, along with about a dozen others in and around the Common.Kevin Peterson, founder of the New Democracy Coalition that’s calling on Boston to rename Faneuil Hall after Crispus Attucks, said the Shaw monument should be moved to a museum because it casts Blacks as “subservient” to whites.Similar complaints have prompted the removal of other… [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]
8 Jul 2020, 9:00 pm by Austin Sarat
”President Trump offered himself as the direct descendent and protector of the legacies of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and (Theodore) Roosevelt. [read post]
5 Jul 2020, 9:03 pm by Guest Contributor
The descriptions of how adulterated and unsafe our food was so disgusting that the book was a catalyst for President Theodore Roosevelt’s call to investigate meat processing plants. [read post]
4 Jul 2020, 9:56 am
PHOTOS: President Trump's Mount Rushmore speech"We gather tonight to herald the most important day in the history of nations: July 4th, 1776 [read post]
4 Jul 2020, 6:45 am
He put the 4 above everyone else, which is the message of the mountain.Today we pay tribute to the exceptional lives and extraordinary legacies of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt. [read post]
30 Jun 2020, 12:59 pm by Sandy Levinson
In New York City, for example, a statue of Theodore Roosevelt in front of the New York Museum of Natural History that was explicitly considered by the Mayor’s Committee, which recommended against removing it, has now been slated for removal because it demeans African- and Native-Americans in placing them in a decidedly subordinate position to Roosevelt atop his horse. [read post]
26 Jun 2020, 4:56 pm by Tom Smith
A statue of former President Theodore Roosevelt is facing imminent removal in New York City. [read post]
24 Jun 2020, 9:26 am by Sean Quirk
At sea, three U.S. carrier strike groups were underway in the Pacific by mid-June: USS Nimitz (CVN 68) operated in the Eastern Pacific, while USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) and USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) sailed in the Western Pacific. [read post]
22 Jun 2020, 7:15 pm by Bill Marler
When Bill Marler was 16 years old, he ran away from home and became a migrant worker for a while, living in squalid cabins, sleeping outdoors, and hitchhiking rides to farms to pick crops. [read post]
22 Jun 2020, 5:00 pm
The same can be said of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. [read post]