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Speak softly and carry a big menorah.

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Theodore Roosevelt – Quotes that tell a lot about our life and ourselves

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Ever wondered how a child with debilitating asthma became the 26th American President? The answer is his ideals. Now you might wonder how a great leader thinks. If yes, then your answer lies in Theodore Roosevelt quotes.

Theodore Roosevelt was one of the most remarkable personalities that ever existed in history. He is one of the best examples of how a person can achieve success through firm ideals.

[aliceslee]

"Believe you can… and you are halfway there!" - Theodore Roosevelt

[bargainsleuthbooks]

The Old Lion: A Novel of Theodore Roosevelt by Jeff Shaara #ARC #BookReview #StMartinsPress #NetGalley

I know a lot about #TheodoreRoosevelt so I was curious about an upcoming #HistoricalFiction book, #TheOldLion by #JeffShaara. How much was right and how much was exaggerated? You'd be surprised. #NetGalley #ARC #BookReview #TeddyRoosevelt #USPresident

In one of his most accomplished, compelling novels yet, acclaimed New York Times bestseller Jeff Shaara accomplishes what only the finest historical fiction can do – he brings to life one of the most consequential figures in U.S. history – Theodore Roosevelt – peeling back the many-layered history of the man, and the country he personified. From the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth…

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“He is the seeking mind of America displayed… His range of reading is amazing; he seems to be echoing, with all the thought of his time, he has receptivity to the point of genius. And he does not merely receive, he digests and reconstructs; he thinks… He assimilates contemporary thought, delocalizes it, and reverberates it. He is #America for the first time vocal to itself.”

Quote from #hgwells (writing about #teddyroosevelt)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40923

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Had a blast at Orlando Art Expo this weekend! Here’s a commission of Teddy Roosevelt I did. #teddyroosevelt #commission #expresident #president #angry #aaronconley #aaronconleyart #oax2024

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A champion of economic and social justice! #TeddyRoosevelt #Americanpresident #USAhistory #3Dpapercraft #paperdoll #printable #Etsy https://instagr.am/p/CuIRYkCompo/

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Happy #WomensHistoryMonth!

Perkins with David Dubinsky in 1944, and Eleanor Roosevelt in 1961.

Happy March! To kick off #WomensHistoryMonth, our first #LaborOrganizerSpotlight of the month is Frances Perkins. 

 An avid women's rights activist from the start, when she encountered the tragedy at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, she immediately sought reform and action to prevent similar workplace horrors. Recommended by Theodore Roosevelt, she was appointed executive of the Committee on Safety which was crucial in the creation of the New York State Factory Investigating Commission, which was in charge of ensuring factories were up to code. 

 Years later, in 1929, then NY Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed her Industrial Commissioner of the State of New York. From there, she persistently encouraged him to take action following the stock market crash, and he appointed her in charge of a committee on employment. Upon FDR's election, he further admired her tenacity and accomplishment and appointed her the first female Secretary of State, thus the first female on a President's Cabinet. Her responsibilities included dealing with the issues of the Great Depression, most notably unemployment. Her support and efforts towards the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) helped make it one of the greatest successes of the New Deal, but her most significant contribution was the Social Security Program. Serving as chair on the Committee on Economic Security, which created the Social Security Program, the Social Security Act was signed into law in 1935. Additionally, her efforts and ambitions were reflected in the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1935, which established a federal minimum wage and prohibited child labor. (Source: fdrlibrary.org) 

 Did you know she was a Cornell University #ILRSchool visiting lecturer from 1957 to 1965? And, the Kheel Center has an extensive collection on the labor movement while Perkins was on FDR's Cabinet: photographs, correspondence, interviews, memorabilia and lectures! See Coll. 5017 and  /3047 AV.

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Top image via Snopes, which confirmed and cited the quote. Second image online here. 

PRESIDENT TEDDY ROOSEVELT ON PATRIOTISM

By Miriam Kleiman, Program Director for Public Affairs.

Numerous patriotic quotes are circulating on social media in the aftermath of the horrific attack on the US Capitol. Following the sage wisdom of my brilliant and inspiring AP US History teacher Terry Pollack, I sought primary sources to verify and provide context to these statements attributed to Teddy Roosevelt. 

Teddy Roosevelt quote 1: 

“Patriotism means to stand with the country. It does not mean to stand with the President.” 

Source: President Teddy Roosevelt, Lincoln and Free Speech, Metropolitan Magazine, May 1918 (v.47 no.6), From the HathiTrust Digital Library, essay here.

Teddy Roosevelt quote 2:

To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

Source: Sedition, a Free Press, and Personal Rule, editorial by Teddy Roosevelt, Kansas City Star, 5/7/1918. Online here. 

Our nation’s history is one of protest, fighting for rights, and continually striving to form a “more perfect union.” Two of our current exhibits, Records of Rights, and Rightfully Hers: American Women and the Vote, highlight records documenting historic struggles. However, such challenges to and questioning of the government, especially of the President, are often seen as unpatriotic or even treasonous. As the highlighted quotes above show, Teddy Roosevelt responded strongly to such accusations.

Teddy Roosevelt stated that far from being unpatriotic, it is one’s patriotic duty to oppose a president whose policies put Americans in harm’s way. At the time, the US was both embroiled in World War I and dealing with a pandemic. Teddy Roosevelt adamantly supported the war, and even wanted to serve despite his age and failing health, but criticized President Woodrow Wilson for not playing a bigger role on the European war front. Wilson responded by trying to quash all criticism through Sedition Act of 1918 that criminalized any “disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language” about the U.S. government or military. 

See also: 

From letter to the Kansas City Star, 4/6/1918, online here. 

While the records above from President Teddy Roosevelt are not from the National Archives, we do hold records of government efforts to foster “patriotic spirit” including the original Declaration of Independence. and thousands of military recruitment posters, some more effective than others, including this one:

“Like mighty Niagara’s torrents is the strong surge of our patriotism.”

WWII poster, Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. NARA ID 515739.

See related:

Why Teddy Roosevelt Tried to Bully His Way Onto the WWI Battlefield, Smithsonian Magazine, by Erick Trickey.

The Bull Moose in Winter: Theodore Roosevelt and World War I, National Parks Service.

Patriotic Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders, 1898, at the top of a hill they captured in the battle of San Juan. NARA ID 542082.

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“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”

- Theodore Roosevelt

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It’s a Beary Special Day...

Do you have your teddy? No matter where you may be working or learning from, today’s the day to have a good snuggle with your favorite teddy. It’s National Bring Your Teddy Bear to Work/School Day!

To celebrate, we would like to share this photo from our holdings of a 1984 display of Teddy Roosevelt and his Teddy Bear from the Cleveland National Forest. During a hunting trip in 1902, President Roosevelt, ever the outdoorsman, refused to shoot a black bear that had been tied to a tree.  This consequential decision inspired the cartoon also seen in the display pictured.  “Teddy’s Bear” was born when a candy shop owner and his wife made a stuffed bear toy after seeing the widely-circulated cartoon in the newspaper.

For more information, please visit the Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site. 

Please share with us your own pictures of you and your teddy bear! 

Item: A Display of Teddy Roosevelt and his Teddy Bear, 3/12/1984. Series: Photographs, ca. 1979 - ca. 1986. Record Group 95: Records of the Forest Service, 1870 - ca. 2008. (National Archives Identifier: 26467177) 

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If a Poem Could Live and Breathe: A Novel of #TeddyRoosevelt's First Love by #MaryCalvi #NetGalley #eARCReview #BookReview #Roosevelts #StMartinsPress

#TheodoreRoosevelt is my favorite #USPresident, and I've read more than 50 books about him. A new #historicalfiction novel explores his first love and the tragic results #Ifapoemcouldliveandbreathe #TeddyRoosevelt #MaryCalvi #netgalley #Bookreview

Studded with the real love letters between a young Theodore Roosevelt and Boston beauty Alice Lee—many of them never before published—If a Poem Could Live and Breathe makes vivid what many historians believe to be the pivotal years that made the future president into the man of action that defined his political life, and cemented his legacy. Cambridge, 1878. The era of the Gilded Age. Alice Lee…

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"We have become great because of the lavish use of our resources. But the time has come to inquire seriously what will happen when our forests are gone, when the coal, the iron, the oil, and the gas are exhausted, when the soils have still further impoverished and washed into the streams, polluting the rivers, denuding the fields and obstructing navigation."

-Teddy Roosevelt, The Conservationist President

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Signed the National Monuments Act on this day in 1906! #TeddyRoosevelt #Americanpresident #USAhistory #3Dpapercraft #paperdoll #printable #Etsy https://instagr.am/p/CtPTSkaIGsA/