Theodore Roosevelt: The Will | Made Strong
Giants of History
JT Fusco
4.8 • 954 Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2015
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Welcome all history fans to the Giants of History Podcast!
In our inaugural series, we introduce our first exploratory study... Theodore Roosevelt
In episode #1, we cover Roosevelt's life from his birth in 1858 through his baptism into politics just after he graduates from Harvard. The episode itself kicks off with one of the most legendary stories of his life.
We hope you enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Giants of History presents Theodore Roosevelt episode number one. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome to Giants of History and thank you for joining us. You go to the White House, you shake hands with Roosevelt and hear him talk and then go home to ring the personality out of your clothes |
| 0:39.7 | Richard Washburn Child American author author and diplomat, on his experience meeting Roosevelt. |
| 0:48.2 | The only trouble I ever had in managing him was that he wanted to put an end to all the evil in the world between sunrise and sunset. |
| 0:57.8 | President Benjamin Harrison during Roosevelt's years as a civil service commissioner. I'm as strong as a bull service commissioner. |
| 1:03.2 | I'm as strong as a bull moose and you can use me to my limit. |
| 1:08.1 | Roosevelt, to party leadership during the election season of 1901. |
| 1:14.8 | It was around 8 p.m. on the evening of October 14th, 1912. |
| 1:19.6 | Theodore Roosevelt was having dinner at the Gilpatrick Hotel in Milwaukee and putting the finishing touches |
| 1:25.0 | on a speech he was scheduled to give a little later that night. |
| 1:29.0 | It was now almost four years since he had held the title of President of the United States. |
| 1:34.6 | He had hand-picked his successor in William Howard Taft, but no longer had confidence in him |
| 1:39.3 | running the nation. |
| 1:41.6 | Woodrow Wilson was also charging hard from the Democratic side, hoping to win the presidential election now just three weeks away. |
| 1:49.0 | Roosevelt saw himself as the only one who could thus save the country. |
| 1:54.2 | And as a result, he left his beloved Republican Party to head the newly formed Progressive |
| 1:59.5 | Bull Moose Party in an effort to win back the White House. |
| 2:03.8 | He famously said of his decision to run for president again, quote, |
| 2:07.8 | My hat is in the ring, the fight is on, and I am stripped to the buff." |
| 2:14.8 | He was in the thick of the campaign battle at that very moment while he sat there quietly |
| 2:19.0 | at a table in the Gilpatrick Hotel, working on what was to become one of his most legendary speeches. |
| 2:27.0 | Roosevelt finished his dinner, folded up his speech, and tucked it into his right jacket pocket. He then got up from the table and made his way down the stairs |
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