Theodore Roosevelt Dies Suddenly at Oyster Bay Home; Nation Shocked

The New York Times ^ | 1/6/2004

[Bayou City]

I know the NYT, but this was a good article about TR.

Besides carrying a bullet in his body, Colonel Roosevelt was partially blind and partially deaf. The sight of his left eye was destroyed while he was in the White House in a boxing match.

This part I havn't heard before, he was one tough dude. Can you picture TR challenging Chiraq to a boxing match!

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[Johnny_Cipher]

At his death Colonel Roosevelt carried in his body the bullet which was fired by Schrank, at Milwaukee during the Presidential campaign of 1912, which nearly resulted in Colonel Roosevelt's death, because he went on and delivered his speech immediately after the attack.

High speed, low drag. A tough man and arguably America's greatest President.

[billhilly]

"Life left his body." What better words could have been written?

[Bayou City]

High speed, low drag. A tough man and arguably America's greatest President.

Agree, I'm a big fan of TR.

[sinkspur]

A tough man and arguably America's greatest President.

While he was President. His selfish and egotistical third-party run gave the country the disastrous Woodrow Wilson.

[Johnny_Cipher]

His selfish and egotistical third-party run gave the country the disastrous Woodrow Wilson.

Not knowing when one is beaten can be a benchmark of greatness too. As for "selfish and egotistical," many say it was the Progressives dangling a LaFollette candidacy in front of him that drove him to embark on his ill-advised 1912 run. Of course, Roosevent was bull-headed, a trait I can identify with and, with reservations, admire.

[Barnacle]

[annyokie]

agreed. His ego got the better of him, but I still love him.

[Skybird]

A great article about TR.

Note the difference in writing style from then to now--unlike today, where the perks, prestige and protocol seem to follow former presidents, back then, they usually reverted to the title of "Mister" or, in TR's case, "Colonel" as he was last known in the military.

Bully!

[AnAmericanMother]

The bullheadedness was a necessary part of his character. Without it, he would never have built himself up from a sickly, half-blind asthmatic weakling; he would never have fought the entrenched New York political interests in the state legislature; he would never have survived the simultaneous deaths of his wife and mother . . . his whole life was one long struggle.

He shouldn't have done that Amazon basin expedition; he shouldn't have run as a third party candidate; he shouldn't have feuded with Taft; he shouldn't have continued his very strenuous exercise against doctor's orders . . . but without that stubbornness he would never amounted to anything -- would have just been another young, sickly, effete, layabout scion of an old New York family.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Yeah, imagine if the Republicans hadn't started a third-party. You'd still be voting for Whigs.

[Bayou City]

The bullheadedness was a necessary part of his character. Without it, he would never have built himself up from a sickly, half-blind asthmatic weakling; he would never have fought the entrenched New York political interests...

Well said Mom..

[Johnny_Cipher]

The bullheadedness was a necessary part of his character.

In my opinion, that is a trait that the current holder of that office shares to some degree with TR. It would have been so easy for GWB to merely pay lip service to Saddam's brutality and treachery in Iraq. After the misdeeds of Krintong, its refreshing to have a leader who does exactly what he says he will do.

[Conservababe]

It was proper in that day, and still it...but misused by the media...to call a office holder, deceased or out of office, by the last office he held prior to his last.

[Travis McGee]

It's believed that he also carried parasites in his body from his Amazon trips. The man was something. He was almost certain to win the presidency.....

[BulletBobCo]

Bully Bump

[Chu Gary]

In other news, General Francisco Franco is still dead!

[PoorMuttly]

Muttly has visited his grave for years...and when he was in distress...composed himself on the Great T.R.'s porch, adjoining the trophy room, and the moose-head with T'R.'s Rough Riders hat, and binoculars.

He was a truly great man, to whom I am deeply grateful.