12-15-14-Teddy Roosevelt newest statue
George Wibrowski
Estates Class
Extra Credit
President Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States. (He lived from 10/27/1858 – 1/6/1919. He was President of The United States from 9/14/1901 – 3/4/1909. He was also a former NYC Police Commissioner and Governor.
The statue of him outside the American Museum of Natural History on 81st street and 5th avenue commemorates his adventurous life. He was a historian, author, explorer and conservationist and a great American leader. The American Museum of Natural History encapsulates diversity and appreciation for our current and many other great civilizations of the past. President Roosevelt appreciated his time spent outdoors, and the wondrous feelings that went along with exploring nature’s landscape.
President Theodore or “Teddy” Roosevelt, was known as a very energetic, charismatic adventurous person with a forceful personality.
He spearheaded the building of the Panama Canal, which he felt, and rightfully so, would be one of the lasting legacies of his presidency.
During his presidency, Roosevelt, or T.R. as he was called, never wanted there to be “too much power in the hands of corporate America,” (according to a youtube.com documentary on Roosevelt from The History Channel). One example of what he did to help curb that was to put blocks on the financier: J.P. Morgan’s attempt to own too many parts of the nation’s railroads.
He helped to improve labor conditions in our country. As a result of Roosevelt hearing about less than sanitary conditions at plants and factories where people worked, he spearheaded the passage of such laws in 1906 as the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act. He showed others that the Federal Government’s involvement can be a good thing. Sometime later, he also helped put forward and pass an act to conserve some of our country’s forests and natural resources.
Above all Roosevelt wanted to be the people’s President, not particularly siding with one political party or the other, he was not going to be pushed around, and he wanted to do the most good for the most people.
At times President Roosevelt also felt that he should flex the nation’s military muscle once in a while by letting other countries know that The United States was the top power in the west. In doing so, he proclaimed that from his presidency forward, the United States would police other countries’ major injustices in other parts of the western world.
According to a documentary on Theodore Roosevelt from youtube.com posted by The History Channel, Theodore Roosevelt was’ “the first President to fly in an airplane, own an automobile, and dive in a submarine.”
Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt
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