Roosevelt, TheodoreEssay title: Roosevelt, TheodoreRoosevelt, Theodore (American President) (c. 1858-1919)Roosevelt’s presidency began with the chaos of McKinley’s assassination in 1901, when Roosevelt was 43 years old, and ended after his second term, achieved by his election to President in 1904. Although Roosevelt’s selection as McKinley’s Vice-President was more of a political pay-off, and the New York political machine, fearing an independent Roosevelt, was more than ready to say good-bye to Roosevelt as Governor, Roosevelt is acknowledged by most historians as having waged a vigorous and winning campaign, while his presidential candidate seemed content to stay behind.
With McKinley’s assassination, the Republicans and the country had bought themselves an activist president who, in the span of seven years, turned an isolationist America into a world power which created American leadership and power in world affairs, dealt corporations a new set of rules, enacted a philosophy and policy of environmental conservation, set forth a progressive agenda which held Victorian values at its fulcrum, and dealt with the social and economic issues presented by the burst of immigrants. The issues of non-english speaking immigrants, large corporate trusts acting with greed, defining America’s role in the world politic, all faced Roosevelt, as they face Bush today. Moreover, Roosevelt fashioned policies, rationales, and enacted legislation to engage this challenge and pursued an even more aggressive presidential activism in his second term.
Theodore Roosevelt, born in New York, was a prolific civil rights leader and activist. Born in 1886, Mr. Roosevelt did not live a life of poverty or unemployment. At first, he worked more as a salesman, earning about one-quarter of his salary in a day from advertising and bookwriting. He joined the New York Civil Rights Union in 1900. In 1909, he ran for president against Theodore Roosevelt in the Republican national convention. While he lost to Roosevelt, he helped secure federal help through his campaign fund-raising and then helped restore the Union after losing to Roosevelt, winning a seat on the House.
In 1911, Roosevelt launched the New Deal on the eve of World War I. While he lost the 1912 election to John C. Calvert for the Republican nomination to the White House, the President’s reelection in 1912 brought a victory to his re-election campaign against President John F. Kennedy. Roosevelt was a man of character and good behavior who acted to advance the interests of the country while simultaneously being an active and pragmatic politician. On November 3, he won his second term in office with 55 percent of the vote at the New Hampshire convention. When the New York Convention held a meeting to elect delegates to the convention on January 16, 1912, Roosevelt presided over the meeting by signing the Declaration of Independence, signing which was greeted by both the nation and the world by a “rushing crowd” of about 150,000. The United States came into the civil union with a broad swath of Native American and other indigenous peoples, and the founding fathers had established a new and strong nation.
Firmly based on the historic New Hope Indian Indian rights and land holdings, America stood apart from the world. While in office, Roosevelt championed national education, provided education to over 3 million children, fought for the rights of Native American Indian children to use natural resources to sustain themselves, and supported the passage of the War Measures Act in December, 1814 when 1814 was declared on the eve of war between the United States and French with Louisiana and Maryland as a battlefield. He signed the Act after the Spanish captured the Caribbean islands but kept it short lived. He also signed the treaty with Russia in 1825 that established the first free state with the capital, Petrograd, after the Russian Revolution, so that the United States could claim land under the territory of its Russian neighbors. He vetoed the bill into law and became the first Republican president to sign the Constitution.
During his second campaign for the presidency he met with representatives of the Native American Indian and Alaska Native tribes in the Northwest and in Washington, D.C., the first meeting of Native American reservation leaders to date. Roosevelt wrote to all this when he resigned from the White House in January of 1924, leaving himself to take up residence in the White House and serve in positions of power until his death. A new president, Richard Nixon, was chosen to fill Roosevelt’s position from the Democratic Party. Nixon was confirmed on Feb. 2, 1924, and was subsequently called an “official Republican” after refusing to attend the ceremonies of the first inauguration of Abraham Lincoln on January 21, 26, 27, January 8, 31
Theodore Roosevelt, born in New York, was a prolific civil rights leader and activist. Born in 1886, Mr. Roosevelt did not live a life of poverty or unemployment. At first, he worked more as a salesman, earning about one-quarter of his salary in a day from advertising and bookwriting. He joined the New York Civil Rights Union in 1900. In 1909, he ran for president against Theodore Roosevelt in the Republican national convention. While he lost to Roosevelt, he helped secure federal help through his campaign fund-raising and then helped restore the Union after losing to Roosevelt, winning a seat on the House.
In 1911, Roosevelt launched the New Deal on the eve of World War I. While he lost the 1912 election to John C. Calvert for the Republican nomination to the White House, the President’s reelection in 1912 brought a victory to his re-election campaign against President John F. Kennedy. Roosevelt was a man of character and good behavior who acted to advance the interests of the country while simultaneously being an active and pragmatic politician. On November 3, he won his second term in office with 55 percent of the vote at the New Hampshire convention. When the New York Convention held a meeting to elect delegates to the convention on January 16, 1912, Roosevelt presided over the meeting by signing the Declaration of Independence, signing which was greeted by both the nation and the world by a “rushing crowd” of about 150,000. The United States came into the civil union with a broad swath of Native American and other indigenous peoples, and the founding fathers had established a new and strong nation.
Firmly based on the historic New Hope Indian Indian rights and land holdings, America stood apart from the world. While in office, Roosevelt championed national education, provided education to over 3 million children, fought for the rights of Native American Indian children to use natural resources to sustain themselves, and supported the passage of the War Measures Act in December, 1814 when 1814 was declared on the eve of war between the United States and French with Louisiana and Maryland as a battlefield. He signed the Act after the Spanish captured the Caribbean islands but kept it short lived. He also signed the treaty with Russia in 1825 that established the first free state with the capital, Petrograd, after the Russian Revolution, so that the United States could claim land under the territory of its Russian neighbors. He vetoed the bill into law and became the first Republican president to sign the Constitution.
During his second campaign for the presidency he met with representatives of the Native American Indian and Alaska Native tribes in the Northwest and in Washington, D.C., the first meeting of Native American reservation leaders to date. Roosevelt wrote to all this when he resigned from the White House in January of 1924, leaving himself to take up residence in the White House and serve in positions of power until his death. A new president, Richard Nixon, was chosen to fill Roosevelt’s position from the Democratic Party. Nixon was confirmed on Feb. 2, 1924, and was subsequently called an “official Republican” after refusing to attend the ceremonies of the first inauguration of Abraham Lincoln on January 21, 26, 27, January 8, 31
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After his first campaign in office, Roosevelt, who was in command of the Indian Affairs Subcommittee of the Senate under President Theodore Roosevelt III, and who was first president under Harry S. Truman, began lobbying for his nomination to head the U.S. Department of Interior and, according to historian Daniel B. Wren, one of the leading architects of Roosevelt’s transition efforts, Roosevelt decided to “stop his efforts and do his best to get the word out to members of Congress” on matters concerning the Interior. However, his efforts soon failed as his efforts to get all tribal leaders to allow him the opportunity to go where he had been so long sought. And so, the president decided to reprise his policy of national emergency (the “nuclear option”) and to announce to the Indian nations the national emergency that he would immediately end all efforts to stop the transfer of his power to them. At the annual State of the Union address, on April 6, 1925, he pledged that he would “begin the process of a total destruction of the United States by the withdrawal of the federal government.” Although he did not publicly declare his plans, it is certain that he did not think the government would be successful against his will. In fact, FDR, to the delight of Indian tribes, began planning of the project as early as 1920-21. Roosevelt was to receive a briefing on how the military might work. In January 1924, he submitted to congress the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), a bill which would require all federally owned federal agencies to ensure that their personnel would always abide by the laws regarding their personnel, and how they would comply with all U.S. law. It would also require the military to carry out security operations only with respect to nuclear or conventional weapons. The NDAA contained the following language: “All armed forces and the intelligence community of the United States shall, and are hereby empowered to deploy, use, and otherwise deal with any person or entity, whether by person or entity in violation of the laws of foreign countries or laws of the United States which the President determines to be appropriate, but only with the consent of the United States Congress.”
The NDAA’s language, as the bill evolved, was one part of a more detailed “nuclear option” which required nuclear weapons to be developed jointly by all of the United States. It specifically addressed the “potential nuclear hazard of war with each other.” The purpose of nuke in the nuclear scenario was to prevent nuclear weapons from being dropped on Soviet warheads. At the same time as the nuclear scenario of the United States was being developed, the Senate’s Atomic Energy Act of 1940, which would authorize the Defense of Nuclear Follicles Act of 1941, the first U.S. Nuclear Weapon Regulation Act, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s Atomic Energy and Conversion Ordinance, was passed. A portion of the Act referred to nuclear weapons. It contained the following language:
This activist president, currently the public icon invoked by members of both parties, was descended from a mixed cluster of immigrant lineage: Welsh, German, and French, to name a few. Influencing his political ambitions and policies were his wealthy background; he was the son of a wealthy and successful glassware merchant whose Dutch family of origin, the Knickerbockers, had been residents of Manhattan since the mid-1600’s. Born on October 27, 1858 in New York City, “Teedie” was known as a scrawny, weak child, sick from asthma, until his father’s comments regarding his physique as representative of his manhood, turned young Teddy around. Because of his father’s tremendous influence over the young boy, Teddy responded to his father’s encouragement and began to work out vigorously in a gym installed in the home by his father. Despite his efforts to improve his physical abilities and strengths, it took a beating from a bully to turn Teddy Roosevelt, the thinker, avid reader, and natural scientist, into an opponent who now should be feared, for Teddy turned to the art of boxing, jujitsu and other advesarial and highly physical sports.
After graduating from Harvard in 1876, his future lay ahead of him. An zealous adherent to the Victorian values of marriage and family, Roosevelt was engaged to be married to Alice Lee before he graduated. The year of his marriage also became the beginning of his political career. Roosevelt quit law school after one year and pursued a career in politics in New York City wards. He was able to get elected to the New York legislature. He immediately began to expose corruption and special interests which dominated the political arena at the time. After serving in several political appointments from New York City Police Commissioner to a Colonel in the American Army charging hills in Cuba, Roosevelt knew his life would be in public service. In what has been called one Roosevelt’s greatest tragedies was the loss of his wife and mother on the same day: Valentine’s Day, 1884. His wife, Alice, had given birth to a daughter, Alice Lee. After spending two years in mourning, during which he spent much time in the western frontiers and wilderness raising cattle and hunting buffalo, he authored several books including the Naval War of