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what would you want them to know about teddy roosevelt? >> first of all right off the bat the easy ones is that he was president of the united states. allow the people and i've heard this about people in hollywood if it didn't happen in their lifetime, it didn't happen. i think there maybe some of that we talk about young people where really have no reason to think back and no reason to learn who the president to bring pay attention to the important ones. there were lot of unimportant ones but the ones that were changed our world and what we are living today and roosevelt is one of those. he's responsible things like the national forest service and the national parks has been off them today and without roosevelt yosemite on and on would have been developed. there was one congressman in particular from the midwest somewhere and is nicknamed with w,not 1 cent persists scenery. that's a roosevelt was up against and he provided a great deal of -- and the panama canal. which is roosevelt himself admitted had to go through congress to do the pan
what would you want them to know about teddy roosevelt? >> first of all right off the bat the easy ones is that he was president of the united states. allow the people and i've heard this about people in hollywood if it didn't happen in their lifetime, it didn't happen. i think there maybe some of that we talk about young people where really have no reason to think back and no reason to learn who the president to bring pay attention to the important ones. there were lot of unimportant...
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i don't think anybody can be like teddy roosevelt. that's not always practical and he was and to a fault he was open to any experience and live beyond yourself, live for others, liver to do good, live to leave something behind. i have desperately tried to do that in my career. i didn't start at all. well, it's probably going to outlive me, hopefully a hundred years from now, maybe your great grandchildren will be reading my books. what an incredible thing that is. that's the way i like to look at it. the otherea thing i really like about this book and i did not know this about teddy roosevelt, didn't have the frame, his life story -- cannot it only be told without his two wives but this is a story where the domestic lifefe really neighbors, his relationship with his kids particularly his daughter. this really comes through, how did you decide, you probably have given more to the family life which i thinknk is a right idea. >> it's chronological. you have to -- you are covering enormous amount of history and as it happens, the death-hi
i don't think anybody can be like teddy roosevelt. that's not always practical and he was and to a fault he was open to any experience and live beyond yourself, live for others, liver to do good, live to leave something behind. i have desperately tried to do that in my career. i didn't start at all. well, it's probably going to outlive me, hopefully a hundred years from now, maybe your great grandchildren will be reading my books. what an incredible thing that is. that's the way i like to look...
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and was, you know, because of teddy roosevelt, the the other we think of teddy roosevelt. and then that strong way, the man in the arena and, the way he stood up to all those special interest groups, i think people are surprised. i, i feel well informed. but his support for suffrage was was way out of character in the universities. i think people know. but as the general public, we a lot of us weren't told that he had booker t washington dinner at the white house which president wilson certainly wouldn't allow there. there are so many ways that he ahead of his time. yeah i mean it'd be easy for me to sit up here basically and read you a synopsis of the book. yeah. and my wife always gets on me. don't do that, because then people have no reason to buy the book. but in fact i mean, you know he he booker t washington the first african american to dinner in the white house ever. i mean lincoln had african-american visiting the white house and frederick douglass and so forth. but terry teddy was the first man to actually have dinner with one in the white house and boy, did that
and was, you know, because of teddy roosevelt, the the other we think of teddy roosevelt. and then that strong way, the man in the arena and, the way he stood up to all those special interest groups, i think people are surprised. i, i feel well informed. but his support for suffrage was was way out of character in the universities. i think people know. but as the general public, we a lot of us weren't told that he had booker t washington dinner at the white house which president wilson...
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roosevelt. >> the other part we think of teddy roosevelt and that way the way he stood up to those interest groups i think people are surprised is support for suffrage was way out of and universities a lot of us were told eating dinner at the white house which wilson certainly wouldn't allow, there are so many ways is out of a synopsis of my life, don't do that because people have no reason to buy the book. [laughter] the first african-american to have dinner in the white house ever. lincoln had african-americans visiting the white house but roosevelt was the first one to have dinner in the white house.is that paul facing memphis there was a paper as the respectable sudden woman will never step foot in the, white house again and on and on. the woman's right to vote decades before it came to pass and it was a popular stance why the woman needs the right to vote, things were getting along just fine the 1780s and he decided no moreom affluent desee the right to vote and that was a very unpopular thing so i can go through his life and presidency but there's so much more. >> the teddy bear story
roosevelt. >> the other part we think of teddy roosevelt and that way the way he stood up to those interest groups i think people are surprised is support for suffrage was way out of and universities a lot of us were told eating dinner at the white house which wilson certainly wouldn't allow, there are so many ways is out of a synopsis of my life, don't do that because people have no reason to buy the book. [laughter] the first african-american to have dinner in the white house ever....
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teddy roosevelt on horseback at work provided. that's a statue not going anywhere. this is where he lived. down the road, sagamore hill, a place he calls home but it seems every time there's a cultural clash here in america, we take it out on iconic figures. think about teddy roosevelt in manhattan, his statue was boxed and shipped out in front of the museum of natural history, a museum family found in the doctors president under five. booker t. washington under scrutiny because of his conservative views. ♪ >> i was on a panel in buffalo, new york and there was a person on the panel who was a known actor, writer, director and he shouted out booker t. washington just want the people to be slaves, continue to be slaves and i was thinking that so far from the truth, what he wanted them to do was take what they learned in slavery and perfected and be excellent at it. >> today's experts want younger america how the philosophy of another influence of what the government the boys, the founder of the naacp actively opposed washington's atlantic copyrights which he believe
teddy roosevelt on horseback at work provided. that's a statue not going anywhere. this is where he lived. down the road, sagamore hill, a place he calls home but it seems every time there's a cultural clash here in america, we take it out on iconic figures. think about teddy roosevelt in manhattan, his statue was boxed and shipped out in front of the museum of natural history, a museum family found in the doctors president under five. booker t. washington under scrutiny because of his...
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teddy roosevelt found out. they showed up and had dinner at the white house, the whole family and booker t. and they talked until 11:00 at night and he went home and some reporter said wait a second, a black man ate dinner at the white house with a white president? that's going to be a scandal. it's some of the most horrific coverage you will read about that horrible dinner, and i'm being sarcastic, between two successful men who are working to make the country better and i'm embarrassed by it. it was referenced by john mccain to talk about how far the country has come after he lost to barack obama for the presidency. he said at one point when booker t. washington was invited to the white house, it was considered a national scandal. and now, we have a black president who will be hosting that dinner. that just shows how far our country has come. host: let me remind our viewers, they can take part in the conversation. we are opening up regional lines. if you are in the eastern or central time zone, you are at (20
teddy roosevelt found out. they showed up and had dinner at the white house, the whole family and booker t. and they talked until 11:00 at night and he went home and some reporter said wait a second, a black man ate dinner at the white house with a white president? that's going to be a scandal. it's some of the most horrific coverage you will read about that horrible dinner, and i'm being sarcastic, between two successful men who are working to make the country better and i'm embarrassed by it....
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teddy roosevelt found out. they showed up and had dinner at the white house, the whole family and booker t. and they talked until 11:00 at night and he went home and some reporter said wait a second, a black man ate dinner at the white house with a white president? that's going to be a scandal. it's some of the most horrific coverage you will read about that horrible dinner, and i'm being sarcastic, between two successful men who are working to make the country better and i'm embarrassed by it. it was referenced by john mccain to talk about how far the country has come after he lost to barack obama for the presidency. he said at one point when booker t. washington was invited to the white house, it was considered a national scandal. and now, we have a black president who will be hosting that dinner. that just shows how far our country has come. host: let me remind our viewers, they can take part in the conversation. we are opening up regional lines. if you are in the eastern or central time zone, you are at (20
teddy roosevelt found out. they showed up and had dinner at the white house, the whole family and booker t. and they talked until 11:00 at night and he went home and some reporter said wait a second, a black man ate dinner at the white house with a white president? that's going to be a scandal. it's some of the most horrific coverage you will read about that horrible dinner, and i'm being sarcastic, between two successful men who are working to make the country better and i'm embarrassed by it....
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it was pretty standard bluster of teddy roosevelt. attacking barnes as being effectively corrupt because he wanted party officials to make decisions rather than people voting on it themselves. and barnes sued him. roosevelt was eager to take on the case. and teddy roosevelt testified in his own defense for eight days in this case. this was front page news everywhere. particularly obviously in new york but well be on that because teddy roosevelt was the former president of the united states were incredibly popular former president. just run again for president in 1912 and now he is a defendant in a big case brought by barnes breed there were real questions about why barnes brought the case. was he doing it for his reputation? was he doing it for some sort of political advantage? but in this case unlike the lincoln case where the transcript was roughly 100 pages,sc this one you or talk about 4000 pages with the development of a legal system by 1915 become standard procedure to have a transcript of the trial. stew t in order to divide th
it was pretty standard bluster of teddy roosevelt. attacking barnes as being effectively corrupt because he wanted party officials to make decisions rather than people voting on it themselves. and barnes sued him. roosevelt was eager to take on the case. and teddy roosevelt testified in his own defense for eight days in this case. this was front page news everywhere. particularly obviously in new york but well be on that because teddy roosevelt was the former president of the united states were...
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teddy roosevelt was a huge lincoln fan. i don't know and don't believe that teddy roosevelt's admiration for robert hitt was somehow connected to his transcribing lincoln's case, but i am convinced he did know about robert hitt transcribing the lincoln-douglas debates. >> it was 1915, the case was barnes versus roosevelt. what are the facts? >> teddy roosevelt was sued after he was president for a comment he had made about a well-known republican, fellow republican remember, leader in the party. it was pretty standard bluster of teddy roosevelt, attacking barnes as being effectively corrupt because he wanted party officials to make decisions rather than the people voting on it themselves. barnes sued him. roosevelt was eager to take on the case, and teddy roosevelt testified in his own defense for eight days in this case. this was front-page news everywhere, particularly in new york, but will beyond that because teddy roosevelt was the former president of the united states, incredibly popular president, had just run again i
teddy roosevelt was a huge lincoln fan. i don't know and don't believe that teddy roosevelt's admiration for robert hitt was somehow connected to his transcribing lincoln's case, but i am convinced he did know about robert hitt transcribing the lincoln-douglas debates. >> it was 1915, the case was barnes versus roosevelt. what are the facts? >> teddy roosevelt was sued after he was president for a comment he had made about a well-known republican, fellow republican remember, leader...
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and you've spent all this time trying to become the next teddy roosevelt, teddy roosevelt dies. and it's that's your moment. you're you're you're that you're the first roosevelt's in line. and that's sort of what he thought he was headed for. and in fact, he was headed for something really different. but when the republicans took over congress in 1920 election, they went really, really rough on him on a sex scandal. and, you know, it said lay sex scandal at fdr. roosevelt details is unprintable on the front page of the new york times. so not exactly the headline you want if you see yourself as the next teddy roosevelt. so what was that about? and that was just before he was he was stricken. yeah, i mean, it was so it was it was in 1920. and you're right, it comes it came about in the aftermath of world war one. there was this concern in the navy department and in the wilson administration that newport, rhode island, where there was a big naval facility, had become a sort of den of sin and inequity and the thing that was worse that was going on there was what they called sodomy s
and you've spent all this time trying to become the next teddy roosevelt, teddy roosevelt dies. and it's that's your moment. you're you're you're that you're the first roosevelt's in line. and that's sort of what he thought he was headed for. and in fact, he was headed for something really different. but when the republicans took over congress in 1920 election, they went really, really rough on him on a sex scandal. and, you know, it said lay sex scandal at fdr. roosevelt details is unprintable...
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teddy roosevelt was with my family in a number of different. so mckinley the president teddy roosevelt is the vice secretary of war is elihu root. frederick grant is living in washington living in new york. his father has died. he's gone back into the army. he knows teddy roosevelt because they were on the police commission. they helped clean up new york's police department. and fred had out of the army to help his father and then to nurse his father and help him his memoirs when he died, help him through the bankruptcy which was a humiliation, fred goes back into the army. and i'm sure that between l'heureux to secretary of war and teddy roosevelt as bellicose vice president they helped get made a general mckinley made him a general he wrote to mrs. grant and i still have that letter saying, oh, i have a secret. i'm making your son, a general. and then he got to puerto rico for the spanish-american and then to the philippines. so his career around and what does he do is he goes to his friend teddy roosevelt when he becomes president, says, my
teddy roosevelt was with my family in a number of different. so mckinley the president teddy roosevelt is the vice secretary of war is elihu root. frederick grant is living in washington living in new york. his father has died. he's gone back into the army. he knows teddy roosevelt because they were on the police commission. they helped clean up new york's police department. and fred had out of the army to help his father and then to nurse his father and help him his memoirs when he died, help...
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general armstrong and then teddy roosevelt and william mckinney, j.p. morgan. they didn't see the color of his skin, they saw greatness. >> honestly his focus on education is important but i think the difference i take from your book one of the great stories. a postmistress out of a job, ran out of town and teddy was appalled and said i'm going to shut down your post office and you will have a post office in your city because of the way you treated her. then she comes back to town, doesn't go back to the post but lives in the neighborhood, majority white neighborhood and opens a bank. so the three pieces to the story, but we get, everybody would know about her in the position. very few people would know to get her back in and nobody would know the third part about her moving back to a mixed community in her hometown opening a bank so fast the key, do we know all three? >> real quick, he wanted to be an american and talk about how blacks were treated better in england but happy with the pl place. he said in america there's nothing you can't do know way you can a
general armstrong and then teddy roosevelt and william mckinney, j.p. morgan. they didn't see the color of his skin, they saw greatness. >> honestly his focus on education is important but i think the difference i take from your book one of the great stories. a postmistress out of a job, ran out of town and teddy was appalled and said i'm going to shut down your post office and you will have a post office in your city because of the way you treated her. then she comes back to town,...
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or from franklin roosevelt to teddy roosevelt and howard taft. as i said i would not change it for anything in theo world i'm o grateful to become an historic historian and so glad to be among french national dissent is so exciting for me too meet all of you today. so here we are. i'm going to talk to you today really about the presidents i know the best which are lincoln, teddy, franklin, lbj. how they found time in the terrible times of pressure we are living in a really difficult time now as you all know there's a cascading series off crises. we have to find ways to find ourselves in the midst of it all. one thing i think history contagious is the most important lesson is that we been the really difficult times before it really, really hard times. with civil war, with the great depression, world war ii, the thing is we know how those crises ended. we know the civil war ended with the massive pace and securee in. we know great depressionza cameo an end when there is a mobilization for world war ii. we know the allies won world war ii the most i
or from franklin roosevelt to teddy roosevelt and howard taft. as i said i would not change it for anything in theo world i'm o grateful to become an historic historian and so glad to be among french national dissent is so exciting for me too meet all of you today. so here we are. i'm going to talk to you today really about the presidents i know the best which are lincoln, teddy, franklin, lbj. how they found time in the terrible times of pressure we are living in a really difficult time now as...
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teddy roosevelt did the work to prove this. he does research not just on the canons but the ship second point cannons in the same direction a very logistical book that had resources and awards. by the time teddy roosevelt got close to doing this himself and think about how a present he could be these books were quite bad. all you want about was how people change history and who was giving the speeches on the ships. same thing is true. wilson's book is quite good but it has a very pragmatic view. even these presidents and the closer you get to power, the more they want to talk about, did you know that individuals to the presidency change the world ? what is called outgoing and passing as even he got closer to her you had the consistent views about the individual and his role. >> at that point teddy roosevelt did not want to spend his summer reading -- with i read coolidge's comments about mount rushmore i had to say, his brief is, was about teddy roosevelt. i wonder if he already thought of that time that teddy roosevelt does no
teddy roosevelt did the work to prove this. he does research not just on the canons but the ship second point cannons in the same direction a very logistical book that had resources and awards. by the time teddy roosevelt got close to doing this himself and think about how a present he could be these books were quite bad. all you want about was how people change history and who was giving the speeches on the ships. same thing is true. wilson's book is quite good but it has a very pragmatic...
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teddy roosevelt loved hunting. he is still of the canyon for other reasonsth he tried his bet to make it a national park. he could not persuade arizona or congress to make a national parks are 1908 he made it a national monument which a president can do like signing a bill. that gave certain protections but the lower level protection then he wanted. did not renew all the private mining claims or ranching claims or timber claims. so he was deadhs for a few monts before it finally became a national park and he never lived to see he regretted he did not succeed in making a national park. from the became a park the river it was here first bringing tourists and they loved it tourists were bringing in money in the arizona businessmen were noticing hey this is worth more than those minds that are not producing anything anyway. worth a lot more than ranching so why exactly are we opposingkn make it a national park? gradually tourism started up and sortyo of swung opinions aroundo realizing the said economic value in people
teddy roosevelt loved hunting. he is still of the canyon for other reasonsth he tried his bet to make it a national park. he could not persuade arizona or congress to make a national parks are 1908 he made it a national monument which a president can do like signing a bill. that gave certain protections but the lower level protection then he wanted. did not renew all the private mining claims or ranching claims or timber claims. so he was deadhs for a few monts before it finally became a...
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from franklin roosevelt to teddy roosevelt and william howard taft. and as i say i wouldn't change it for anything in the world. so i'm so grateful to have become an historic historian and so glad to be among presidential descendants is so exciting for me to meet all of you today. so here we are and i'm going to talk to you today really about the presidents that i know the best which are lincoln teddy franklin and lbj and how they found time in this terrible times of pressure. we're living in a really difficult time. now as you all know, there's a cascading series of crises and we have to find ways to find ourselves in the midst of it all one thing. i think that history can teach us is the most important lesson is that we've been through really difficult times before really really hard times the civil war the great depression world war two and the thing is that we know how those crises ended. we know that the civil war ended with emancipation secure in the union restored. we know the great depression came to an end when there was a mobilization for wo
from franklin roosevelt to teddy roosevelt and william howard taft. and as i say i wouldn't change it for anything in the world. so i'm so grateful to have become an historic historian and so glad to be among presidential descendants is so exciting for me to meet all of you today. so here we are and i'm going to talk to you today really about the presidents that i know the best which are lincoln teddy franklin and lbj and how they found time in this terrible times of pressure. we're living in a...
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and so let's use teddy roosevelt as an example. his first book was about the naval war of 1812, and he actually wrote it when he was an undergraduate or at least started it. and in that, you will not find a more ambivalent view of heroism if you look at his treatment of all rick the war 1812 and the naval conflicts. it's not that perry was some great leader or was able to give speeches or was able to motivate his soldiers that he had more cannons. and teddy roosevelt did the work to prove this. he did all the research to look not just at the cannons, but on american ships. they could point more cannons in the same direction to create a better broadside and things like that. so it was a very logistical book that talked about and the kind of boring stuff it wasn't a book about heroes. by the time teddy roosevelt, close to being a hero himself and thinking about how could the president be heroes? his books were quite bad because he all he wanted to talk about was how great people had changed history and not many cannons arrived were.
and so let's use teddy roosevelt as an example. his first book was about the naval war of 1812, and he actually wrote it when he was an undergraduate or at least started it. and in that, you will not find a more ambivalent view of heroism if you look at his treatment of all rick the war 1812 and the naval conflicts. it's not that perry was some great leader or was able to give speeches or was able to motivate his soldiers that he had more cannons. and teddy roosevelt did the work to prove this....
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so that was one step forward and then teddy roosevelt came along. he was very dedicated to the grand canyon, too. he really loved it. but in a very paradoxical way. so teddy roosevelt, after he was president, went to the north rim to go mountain hunting, and he was a big game hunter. so he went to the north rim and there used be a lot of mountain lions there and there were hundreds of them that were killed over the years. the first service actually hired a ranger to kill the mountain lions and nobody was thinking ecologically then and thinking what happens if you kill all the predators? well, the the prey, the deer are going to explode. there is massive population explosion deer. but anyway, teddy roosevelt know loved hunting, but but he still loved the canyon for other reasons. he tried his best to make this a national park and he couldn't persuade arizonans or congress make it a national park. so in 1908, he made it a national monument, which a president can do just by signing a bill. so that gave its certain protections, but it was still a lower
so that was one step forward and then teddy roosevelt came along. he was very dedicated to the grand canyon, too. he really loved it. but in a very paradoxical way. so teddy roosevelt, after he was president, went to the north rim to go mountain hunting, and he was a big game hunter. so he went to the north rim and there used be a lot of mountain lions there and there were hundreds of them that were killed over the years. the first service actually hired a ranger to kill the mountain lions and...