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Guaranteed Human.

This is Lee Habib, and this is our American Stories, and we tell stories about everything

here on this show show and our favorite subject

American history. The Lyndon Johnson, the 36th president, was a Texan and an absentee rancher

with acreage west of Austin and the Ronald Reagan, the 40th president, acted in westerns and

owned a 68 acre ranch in Santa Barbara County.

Both were more hat than cow.

Theodore Roosevelt, on the other hand, owned two ran cattle in North Dakota and Montana.

He was just 42 years old when he took office in 1901, the youngest president ever.

It was the West that molded Roosevelt into a man.

Also, it was where he learned to carry a big stick.

Here to tell the story is Roger McGrath and Michael Blake.

McGrath is a regular on our show, a regular contributor for the History Channel.

Michael Blake is a two-time Emmy

award-winning makeup artist and a respected film historian. Here's McGrath and Blake.

Theodore Roosevelt was one of New York's most accomplished, adventurous, self-sacrificing,

and patriotic sons. A Harvard graduate, author, cattle rancher, war hero, U.S. president,

and the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and the Medal of Honor.

He was a towering American figure,

whom sculptor Goetzenborglam carved into Mount Rushmore alongside Washington, Jefferson,

and Lincoln. Contributing mightily to making Roosevelt into the heroic man he became, or his

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