After leaving the presidency in March 1909, Theodore Roosevelt and his son, Kermit, embarked on an African safari. TR was greatly interested in the rhinoceros at first, but it was not long before the animal became a real nuisance.
The love story of Alice Hathaway Lee and Theodore Roosevelt is a very romantic one. Roosevelt himself described it as “a real case of love at first sight and my first love too.”
Archie and Nick Roosevelt cleverly implicated President Roosevelt when they found themselves in trouble at the White House in November 1903.
Today's post was submitted by the Theodore Roosevelt Center's student intern, who is a Communications major at Dickinson State University.
Cecil Spring Rice was born into an aristocratic Anglo-Irish family on February 27, 1859 in London, England. He met Theodore Roosevelt on a voyage home from Canada, and the two became fast friends. Spring Rice, henceforth called Springie by Roosevelt, served as his new friend’s best man at his wedding on December 2, 1886.
“The Modern Sword of Damocles,” published in Puck magazine on February 4, 1903, associates the threat that coal strikes pose to industrial production with the Greek legend of the Sword of Damocles.