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🗓️ 12 August 2024
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What kind of a nickname is Bull Moose? How progressive was Theodore Roosevelt's presidency? And how does his legacy live on?
Don is joined once again by Michael Patrick Cullinane, historian of American politics, an award-winning author, and the Lowman Walton Chair of Theodore Roosevelt Studies at Dickinson State University.
Michael's books on Roosevelt are 'Remembering Theodore Roosevelt' and 'Theodore Roosevelt's Ghost'.
Produced by Freddy Chick and Sophie Gee. Edited by Aidan Lonergan. Senior Producer was Charlotte Long.
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1:05.0 | The Roosevelt Home, Saguar Hill, is quiet. |
1:12.0 | The door from the bedroom to the porch rattles in the |
1:14.8 | northwestern breeze from Oyster Bay and Theodore, known as TR, sleeps in his bed. |
1:20.3 | He fell ill late last night with a shortness of breath that reminded him of the asthma |
1:25.7 | attacks he'd experienced in his childhood. But now it seems to have cleared. At 2 a.m. his wife Edith checks in on him. He appears to be breathing normally, so she leaves him, knowing that James Amos, one of Roosevelt's most trusted staff members, is keeping watch from the adjoining room. |
1:43.0 | Amos started working for the Roosevelt in 1901 when he was 22. |
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1:50.0 | Gradually he became a valet, bodyguard, confidant, and often a secretary to the president himself. |
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