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BB&T Academy of Free EnterpriseEducation

5:30 – 6:00 Dinner and Introduction

6:00 – 6:45 The Man

6:45 – 7:30 The Myth

7:30 – 8:15 The Economic Promise

8:15 – 8:30 Summary and Evaluation

TEDDY ROOSEVELT: The Man, the Myth, and the Economic Promise

Tonight’s Agenda

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The Man

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Birth

Mother & Wife Die

Book

Climbs Matterhorn

Marries Alice

Father Dies

Harvard

GlassesDeath

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EuropeEurope 1st Wildlife

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President

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Marries Edith

Loses race for MayorNYC

Peace Prize

2nd Term Ends

Trusts

Amazon

Loses Election as Progressive

Return from Africa

Son dies in WWI

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“Theodore Roosevelt, whose name later became the synonym of virile health and vigor, was a fragile, patient sufferer in those early days of the nursery.” Corinne Roosevelt, younger sister

“Theodore, you have the mind but you have not the body, and without the help of the body the mind cannot go as far as it should. You must make your body. It is hard drudgery to make one’s body, but I know you will do it.” Theodore Roosevelt, Sr.

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“No man ever came to Harvard more serious in his purpose to secure first of all an education, he was forever at it, and probably no man of his time read more extensively of deeply, especially in directions that did not count on the honor-list or marking-sheet.” Curtis Guld, Jr. classmate

“I never knew a man who worked as far in advance of what was to be done. Perhaps I value this virtue more highly because I lack it myself.” William Howard Taft, Secretary of War“I wonder if I won’t find everything in life too big for my abilities. Well,

time will tell.” Theodore Roosevelt, on writing his first of 45 books

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“Of course, in one sense, the first essential for a man's being a good citizen is his possession of the home virtues of which we think when we call a man by the emphatic adjective of manly. No man can be a good citizen who is not a good husband and a good father, who is not honest in his dealings with other men and women, faithful to his friends and fearless in the presence of his foes, who has not got a sound heart, a sound mind, and a sound body; exactly as no amount of attention to civil duties will save a nation if the domestic life is undermined, or there is lack of the rude military virtues which alone can assure a country's position in the world. In a free republic the ideal citizen must be one willing and able to take arms for the defense of the flag, exactly as the ideal citizen must be the father of many healthy children…

A great many of our men in business, or of our young men who are bent on enjoying life (as they have a perfect right to do if only they do not sacrifice other things to enjoyment), rather plume themselves upon being good citizens if they even vote; yet voting is the very least of their duties, Nothing worth gaining is ever gained without effort. You can no more have freedom without striving and suffering for it than you can win success as a banker or a lawyer without labor and effort, without self-denial in youth and the display of a ready and alert intelligence in middle age. The people who say that they have not time to attend to politics are simply saying that they are unfit to live in a free community.” Theodore Roosevelt, January 26, 1883

The Duties of American Citizenship

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“I kept guard over the three prisoners, who were huddled into a sullen group some twenty yards off, just the right distance for the buckshot in the double-barrel.”Harvard College Library Theodore Roosevelt Collection

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“It was late in the evening when I reached the place. I heard one or two shots in the bar-room as I came up, and I disliked going in. But there was nowhere else to go, and it was a cold night. Inside the room were several men, who, including the bartender, were wearing the kind of smile worn by men who are making believe to like what they don’t like. A shabby individual in a broad hat with a cocked gun in each hand was walking up and down the floor talking with strident profanity. He had evidently been shooting at the clock, which had two or three holes in its face.…As soon as he saw me he hailed me as ‘Four Eyes,’ in reference to my spectacles, and said, ‘Four Eyes is going to treat.’ I joined in the laugh and got behind the stove and sat down, thinking to escape notice. He followed me, however, and though I tried to pass it off as a jest this merely made him more offensive, and he stood leaning over me, a gun in each hand, using very foul language… In response to his reiterated command that I should set up the drinks, I said, ‘Well, if I’ve got to, I’ve got to,’ and rose, looking past him.As I rose, I struck quick and hard with my right just to one side of the point of his jaw, hitting with my left as I straightened out, and then again with my right. He fired the guns, but I do not know whether this was merely a convulsive action of his hands, or whether he was trying to shoot at me. When he went down he struck the corner of the bar with his head… if he had moved I was about to drop on my knees; but he was senseless. I took away his guns, and the other people in the room, who were now loud in their denunciation of him, hustled him out and put him in the shed.”

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"the men with the muck rakes are often indispensable to the well being of society; but only if they know when to stop raking the muck...“ Theodore Roosevelt, 1906

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Teddy Bear The Myth

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Teddy BearThe Teddy Bear tie came when a Brooklyn, NY candy shop owner, Morris Michtom, saw Clifford Berryman’s original cartoon of Roosevelt and the bear and had an idea. He put in his shop window two stuffed toy bears his wife had made. Michtom asked permission from President Roosevelt to call these toy bears "Teddy's bears". The rapid popularity of these bears led Michtom to mass-produce them, eventually forming the Ideal Novelty and Toy Company.

At about the same time, a Germany company, Steiff, started making stuffed bears. Margaret Steiff earned her living by sewing, first by making stuffed elephants, then other animals. In 1903, an American saw a stuffed bear she had made and ordered many of them. These bears, which also came to be called Teddy Bears, made the international connection.

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The Myth

Man of Peace

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Frederic Remington’s “The Charge of the Rough Riders” depicting Col. Theodore Roosevelt on horseback at the head of his Rough Riders. Remington was present at the battle as a special correspondent for the New York World. Source: Frederic Remington Art Museum

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Man of Peace

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name. Theodore Roosevelt, Cambridge ,1910

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Medal of Honor Citation

Issued January 16, 2001

Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roosevelt distinguished himself by acts of bravery on 1 July, 1898, near Santiago de Cuba, Republic of Cuba, while leading a daring charge up San Juan Hill. Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt, in total disregard for his personal safety, and accompanied by only four or five men, led a desperate and gallant charge up San Juan Hill, encouraging his troops to continue the assault through withering enemy fire over open countryside. Facing the enemy's heavy fire, he displayed extraordinary bravery throughout the charge, and was the first to reach the enemy trenches, where he quickly killed one of the enemy with his pistol, allowing his men to continue the assault. His leadership and valor turned the tide in the Battle for San Juan Hill. Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt's extraordinary heroism and devotion to duty are in keeping with the highest traditions of military service and reflect great credit upon himself, his unit, and the United States Army.

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“The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.”

Theodore Roosevelt, letter, 1917

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Economic Promise

Trust-busting “The great corporations which we have grown to speak of rather loosely as trusts are the creatures of the State, and the State not only has the right to control them, but it is duty bound to control them wherever the need of such control is shown.” Theodore Roosevelt Aug. 23, 1902 Providence, Rhode Island

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Economic PromiseRegulation “We can do nothing of good in the way of

regulating and supervising these corporations until we fix clearly in our minds that we are not attacking the corporations, but endeavoring to do away with any evil in them. We are not hostile to them; we are merely determined that they shall be so handled as to subserve the public good. We draw the line against misconduct, not against wealth.” Theodore Roosevelt, State of the Union, 1902

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Economic PromiseConservation "It is not what we have that will make us a

great nation; it is the way in which we use it.“Theodore Roosevelt, July 4, 1886, Dickinson, Dakota Territory

"I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the natural resources of our land; but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob, by wasteful use, the generations that come after us.“ Theodore Roosevelt, August 31, 1910, Osawatomie, Kansas

"The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books.“ Theodore Roosevelt, editorial in The Outlook, September1911

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