Childhood struggles

Teddy’s illnesses

Works hard in his father’s home gym

Overcomes illnesses through the strength of his will

Harvard years

Boxing

Roosevelt’s “classroom”education

1881 – Climbing the Matterhorn

Death of mother and wife

Retreat to the Badlands

Learned lessons in the Badlands

“Took the snob out of me”

Love of the open land Shaped future policies

Marriage to Edith Tales of Teddy

Roosevelt and his six children (only five in this picture because Quentin is not yet born)

President of the NYC Board of Police Commissioners

Already a “mover and a shaker” and a friend of the common man

Roosevelt as part of this volunteer regiment

Victory at San Juan Hill

Medal of Honor

Roosevelt’s progressive campaign style

Powerful speeches

Assassination of McKinley

A “visible president”

Family picture at Sagamore Hill in Oyster Bay on Long Island, New York

Stories of Roosevelt’s enjoyment of his children

1903

How things “ought to be”

A bully pulpit speech in Evanston, Illinois

Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose. But fortunately I had my manuscript, so you see I was going to make a long speech, and there is a bullet - there is where the bullet went through - and it probably saved me from it going into my heart. The bullet is in me now, so that I cannot make a very long speech, but I will try my best.

National Parks, National Forests, game and bird preserves, and other federal reservations

230,000,000 acres

President Theodore Roosevelt at Yosemite in 1903.

"Leave it as it is. You can not improve on it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it."

A fair shake for all Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906

Meat Inspection Act of 1906

“We draw the line against misconduct, not against wealth.”

Work to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits"

Northern Securities (Railroads) Coal Strike of 1902

•Threats to have army run mines Roosevelt the “Trust Buster”

A favorite proverb, "Speak softly and carry a big stick. . . . "

Social Darwinism

Meeting of the Big Three

American Football Rules Committee was formed

Rules to make the game less dangerous

First to invite an African American to a White House dinner

First to have Secret Service protection

First to win Nobel Peace Prize for his work towards ending the Russo-Japanese War

First to take trip outside the United States

First to give an open invitation to the press

First to be submerged in a submarine, to own a car, to have a telephone in his home, and to be allowed to operate the light switches in the White House

Theodore Roosevelt with incoming President William Howard Taft on Taft's inauguration day in 1909

The “Progressive Bull Moose” loses in 1912

Life goes on Theodore

Roosevelt at the wedding of his daughter Ethel to Richard Derby.

Agony over the death of Quentin in World War I

"Grandfather" Roosevelt hugs baby granddaughter Edith Roosevelt Derby, 1918.

"The old lion is dead."

Photo shows the burial of Theodore Roosevelt, January 1919 in Young’s Memorial Cemetery, Oyster Bay, NY.