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When Theodore Roosevelt moved into the White House in 1901, he brought with him his wife, his six children, and one of the widest (and wildest) menageries Washington, D.C. has ever seen.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth, eldest daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt, became a public spectacle due to her rebellious antics as an early 20th century teen; a historian shares her legacy.
BEFORE anything else is said about Colonel Roosevelt’s letters to his children, we must take account of the wonders they contain. America is a toyland to this great showman — a hunting-ground ...
Roosevelt was considered sickly as a child because he had severe asthma. Maybe that is why he spent much of his youth reading and observing nature as well as keeping records, from a very young age ...
Melanie Gustafson spoke about the children of Theodore Roosevelt. Using a photographic slideshow, Ms. Gustafson discussed the death of his first wife, second marriage to a childhood sweetheart ...
Just before Thanksgiving in 1904, the Boston Herald served up some shocking news: Two of President Theodore Roosevelt’s younger children had chased the presidential dinner turkey around the back ...
Theodore Roosevelt thought that Theobald Chartran's portrait of him made him look like a 'mewling cat.' His children teased him about it. The painting had to go.
Theodore Roosevelt never wanted a statue. Long before he died, he left strict instructions to his wife and children that no likeness of himself — equestrian or otherwise — appear in stone or ...
In 1963, to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the teddy bear, the Michtoms gifted Kermit Roosevelt Jr., the grandson of the late former president, one of the original bears for his children.
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