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Theodore Roosevelt
[1858-1919] • U.S. President #26, 1901-1909
![photo portrait of Theodore Roosevelt [1858-1919], 26th President of The United States](images/TeddyRoosevelt-headshot.jpg)
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“In any moment of decision, the best thing [that] you can do is the right thing, the next best thing
[that] you can do is the wrong thing, and the worst thing [that] you can do is nothing.”
“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
(Labor Day speech in 1903)
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt
In 1997, almost 100 years following Roosevelt’s brave stand in Cuba, Congressman Rick Lazio submitted a request that Roosevelt be reconsidered for the honor. It was approved, and the former president was posthumously recognized with the medal in 2001. He is the only U.S. president to have ever received the award.
TR's 1912 third party try for President, he placed SECOND
Attempt to Assassinate Theodore Roosevelt (October 14, 1912)
Theodore Roosevelt entry at Wikipedia
Theodore Roosevelt credits [1898-1919] at Internet Movie Database
Links
Theodore Roosevelt entry at Wikipedia
Theodore Roosevelt credits [1898-1919] at Internet Movie Database
Internet Broadway Database
C-SPAN's American Presidents site
P.B.S. American Presidents archives
The White House Websites of the Presidents
J.R. Howington's Presidential Trivia Page
www.TheodoreRoosevelt.org
--(shared with PSAGE?) various books about life on ranch + hunting trips
NORTH DAKOTA T.R. ROUGH RIDER AWARDS = http://www.governor.state.nd.us/awards/rr-gallery/
his yacht USS Potomac in Oakland = www.USSpotomac.org
Rough Rider Museum, Las Vegas NM
www.NPS.gov/thrb/ = Th. Roosevelt Birthplace, NYC
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/theodore_roosevelt.html
White House bio
Works About Theodore Roosevelt
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 | "Theodore Roosevelt and Six Friends of The Indian" [1997] by William T. Hagan The six men are Francis E. Leupp, Herbert Welsh, C. Hart Merriam, George Bird Grinnell, Charles F. Lummis & Hamlin Garland Univ OK Press 8x5½ pb [5/2002] for $11.94 Univ OK Press 8½x5¾ hardcover [9/97] for $31.94 |
3-volume biography by Edmund Morris
"The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt"
"Theodore Rex"
new "Colonel Roosevelt" [2010]
new book "River of Doubt" about his 1914 river trip
"Dakota" (2005) A novel by Matt Braun about Teddy Roosevelt /0312997833/
"Theodore Roosevelt In The Badlands" [2011] by Roger Di Silvestro
Movies & TV, Plays, Other Media
Theodore Roosevelt credits [1898-1919] at Internet Movie Database
'President Theodore Roosevelt' character credits at IMDb
"The Teddy Bears" [1907 comedy short] with Teddy Roosevelt
"Theodore Roosevelt" [1912 documentary short] /tt1142432/
"The Fighting Roosevelts" [1919] /tt0010124/
1923 poem "Roosevelt" by Ernest Hemingway [1899-1961]
"The Rough Riders" [1927] /tt0018346/
"End of The Trail" [1936] /tt0027573/
"Texas Trail" [Paramount Nov 1937]
Hopalong Cassidy Western that merely mentions Teddy & the Rough Riders
"Teddy The Rough Rider" [1940] /tt0033138/
"Arsenic and Old Lace"
[Warner Bros. Sept 1944]
 | A newly-married bachelor stage critic drops in on his two spinster aunts in Brooklyn and discovers that they have the 'bad habit' of killing lonely old men, with the help of cousin who thinks that he is President Teddy Roosevelt. The insanity is ramped up when his sociopathic brother arrives to hide out from the police.
Co-produced & directed by Frank Capra; script by Julius J. Epstein & Philip G. Epstein, based on the 1941 play by Joseph Kesselring; starring Cary Grant, Josephine Hull, Jean Adair, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Peter Lorre, John Alexander, Jack Carson, John Ridgely, Edward McNamara, James Gleason, Grant Mitchell & Edward Everett Horton
Turner b&w DVD [8/2000] for $10.99 M.G.M./Warner b&w VHS [7/98] out of prodn/many used full credits from IMDb |
"You Are There: Attempt To Assassinate Theodore Roosevelt (October 14, 1912)"
[1957 TV] /tt0751887/
"The Twentieth Century: The Times of Teddy Roosevelt" [TV 1959] /tt0942253/
"Biography: Theodore Roosevelt" [1962] /tt0838460/
"Arsenic and Old Lace" [1969 TV movie] /tt0064042/
"A Man, A Plan, A Canal: Panama" episode of "Nova" [1974] /tt1315522/
"The Wind and the Lion" [1975] /tt0073906/
Directed by John Milius; starring Sean Connery & Candice Bergen
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000EYUCK/
"Meeting of Minds" TV series [P.B.S./KCET-TV 1977-81]
 | 12-episode series, each in two parts, in b&w & color; filmed before a live audience; imagi-nary dinner parties placing famous thinkers and doers in conversation with people they never met, with the dialogue mostly culled from their published works; 2-part January 1977 episode brings together Theodore Roosevelt {portrayed by Joe Early}, Thomas Aquinas, Queen Cleopatra & Thomas Paine Produced, written & hosted by Steve Allen
Region 1 VHS & DVD not available • movie entry at Wikipedia series credits at IMDb • Part 1 credits at IMDb • Part 2 credits at IMDb |
"Wild and Wooly" [1978 TV] /tt0078494/
"Bully: An Adventure With Teddy Roosevelt" [1978] /tt0451005/
filmed one-man stageplay with James Whitmore
"Ragtime" [1981] /tt0082970/
"The Indomitable Teddy Roosevelt" [1986] /tt0087470/
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  | "Teddy & Alice: An American Musical" [1987] featuring music by John Philip Sousa [1854-1932] starring Len Cariou, Beth Fowler & Nancy Hume 27"x40" color poster from Amazon for $9.99 Broadway credits, 1987-88 |
"Newsies" [1992) /tt0104990/
"T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt" episode of "The American Experience"
[1996] /tt0160946/ & /tt1288683/ B00003A9RT
P.B.S. bio
"Biography: Theodore Roosevelt: Roughrider To Rushmore" [1996] /tt0402012/
"Rough Riders" [1997] /tt0118453/
Directed by John Milius; starring Tom Berenger & Sam Elliott
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000EOTUSA/
"The American President: Expanding Power" episode [2000] /tt1047132/
played by William F. Buckley
"T.R.: An American Lion" [2003 TV] /tt0369007/
played by Richard Dreyfuss
"The Spanish-American War: First Intervention" [2007 TV] /tt1073514/
"The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt" 
[2011? release] /tt0480046/
announced in 2009; script by Nicholas Meyer, based on the Edmund Morris biography;
to be directed by Martin Scorsese & starring Leonardo DiCaprio
Writings of Theodore Roosevelt
browse books
 | "Theodore Roosevelt's History of the United States: His Own Words, Selected & Arranged by Daniel Ruddy" [2010] Smithsonian 9x6¼ hardcover [5/2010] for $18.47 |
Family
uncle of Eleanor Roosevelt [1884-1962]
fifth cousin of Franklin D. Roosevelt [1882-1945]
first wife Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt [1861-84], married 1880, died 1884
daughter Alice Lee Roosevelt Longworth [1884-1980]
second wife Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt [1861-1948], married 1886, widowed 1919
son Theodore 'Ted' Roosevelt, Jr. [1887-1944]
"The Namesake: The Biography of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr." [] by Robert W. Walker
son Kermit Roosevelt [1889-1943]
daughter Ethel Roosevelt Derby [1891-1977]
son Archibald Bulloch 'Archie' Roosevelt [1894-1979]
son Quentin Roosevelt [1897-1918]
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