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Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

Pearson, Edmund Lester

Paperback

Biographies GeneralFiction AnthologiesGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1502930722
ISBN13: 9781502930729
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Oct 22 2014
Pages: 76
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.16 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
If you had been in New York in 1917 or 1918 you might have seen, walking quickly from a shop or a hotel to an automobile, a thick-set but active and muscular man, wearing a soft black hat and a cape overcoat. Probably there would have been a group of people waiting on the sidewalk, as he came out, for this was Theodore Roosevelt, Ex-President of the United States, and there were more Americans who cared to know what he was doing, and to hear what he was saying, than cared about any other living man. Although he was then a private citizen, holding no office, he was a leader of his country, which was engaged in the Great War. Americans were being called upon, -the younger men to risk their lives in battle, and the older people to suffer and support their losses. Theodore Roosevelt had always said that it was a good citizen's duty cheerfully to do one or the other of these things in the hour of danger. They knew that he had done both; and so it was to him that men turned, as to a strong and brave man, whose words were simple and noble, and what was more important, whose actions squared with his words

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