Fuck Yeah, Theodore Roosevelt

Your source for everything Theodore Roosevelt! President, conservationist, explorer, writer, historian, sportsman, Nobel Prize winner and much, much more! Check in to learn more about the man who would go on to become America's 26th President, and the extraordinary life that he lived.

[thegoddamnbullmoose]

Bully for you, Mr. President. 

[thegoddamnbullmoose]

Theodore Roosevelt Leads the Americans in Civilization VI

The Americans have been a fixture in the Civilization series since its inception 25 years ago, and in Civilization VI they are being led by the nation’s 26th president, Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt.

Bully!

[horticulturalcephalopod]

wait have yall seen my teddy roosevelt teddy bear

[judgeanon]

No I have NOT.

But now I have.

And it’s amazing.

[cracked]

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[vancity604778kid]

ALICE ROOSEVELT WAS HARDCORE. “She was known as a rule-breaker in an era when women were under great pressure to conform. The American public noticed many of her exploits. She smoked cigarettes in public, swore at officials, rode in cars with men, stayed out late partying, kept a pet snake named Emily Spinach (Emily as in her spinster aunt and Spinach for its green color) in the White House, and was seen placing bets with a bookie. 

[optimysticals]

So what I’m reading here is, she was a Roosevelt?

[catsuitmonarchy]

Well I have a new hero.

[khoshekh-yourself-deactivated20]

Her whole wikipedia article is gold

"When her father was governor of New York, he and his wife proposed that Alice attend a conservative school for girls in New York City. Pulling out all the stops, Alice wrote, ‘If you send me I will humiliate you. I will do something that will shame you. I tell you I will.’"

"Her father took office in 1901 following the assassination of President William McKinley, Jr. in Buffalo (an event that she greeted with "sheer rapture.")"

“During the cruise to Japan, Alice jumped into the ship’s pool fully clothed, and coaxed a congressman to join her in the water. (Years later Bobby Kennedy would chide her about the incident, saying it was outrageous for the time, to which the by-then-octogenarian Alice replied that it would only have been outrageous had she removed her clothes.”

"She was dressed in a blue wedding dress and dramatically cut the wedding cake with a sword (borrowed from a military aide attending the reception)"

"When it came time for the Roosevelt family to move out of the White House, Alice buried a Voodoo doll of the new First Lady, Nellie Taft, in the front yard."

"Later, the Taft White House banned her from her former residence—the first but not the last administration to do so. During Woodrow Wilson’s administration (from which she was banned in 1916 for a bawdy joke at Wilson’s expense)…"

"As an example of her attitudes on race, in 1965 her African-American chauffeur and one of her best friends, Turner, was driving Alice to an appointment. During the trip, he pulled out in front of a taxi, and the driver got out and demanded to know of him, "What do you think you’re doing, you black bastard?" Turner took the insult calmly, but Alice did not and told the taxi driver, "He’s taking me to my destination, you white son of a bitch!"

“To Senator Joseph McCarthy, who had jokingly remarked at a party “Here’s my blind date. I am going to call you Alice”, she sarcastically said “Senator McCarthy, you are not going to call me Alice. The trashman and the policeman on my block call me Alice, but you may not.”

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[geekerypokery]

dude teddy roosevelt was rad as fuck ok my history teacher told us about the speech where he was shot. the shooter hit him right in the front pocket of his shirt, where he had his glasses case and his folded-up, multi-page speech tucked into it, which slowed the bullet. his security officials insisted he go to a hospital, but he said something along the lines of, “i promised these people a speech, and a speech they will get.” so he stood up there and delivered his speech, occasionally stopping to cough up blood. when he eventually finished, he got medical attention, and he was totally fine.

[ashes-to-lynx]

"Fighting Bob Evans" oh my God.

[todayinhistory]

October 31st 1941: Mount Rushmore completed On this day in 1941, after 14 years of construction, Mount Rushmore was completed. Mount Rushmore, which lies near Keystone in South Dakota, now bears the faces of four US Presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. The idea for the carving had been around for years before Danish-American sculptor Gutzon Borglum and his son Lincoln were hired and the project received federal funding. The initial plans were for the entire torsos of the Presidents to be carved, as opposed to just their faces. Borglum even envisioned having a timeline of great events in US history running alongside the faces and a ‘Hall of Records’ in a chamber cut into the rock behind the faces. However, the project ran out of money during the Great Depression, leading to its early completion in October 1941. Mount Rushmore remains a major attraction in the United States, attracting millions of visitors every year.

[todayinhistory]

October 14th 1912: Roosevelt shot On this day in 1912, Theodore Roosevelt was shot while making a campaign speech in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Roosevelt, who served as President from 1901 to 1909 was attempting to run for a third term for his Bull Moose Party. He lost the election to Democrat Woodrow Wilson. He was shot by John Schrank, a mentally disturbed saloon keeper, who claimed he was told to kill Roosevelt by the ghost of former President William McKinley. When Schrank shot Roosevelt, the bullet lodged in his chest after hitting his eyeglass case and a copy of his speech he was carrying in his jacket. Roosevelt decided to continue the speech, as he could tell from the lack of blood when he coughed that the bullet had not pierced his lung. He spoke for ninety minutes after being shot. Doctors concluded the wound was not serious and the bullet remained in Roosevelt until his death.

"I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose."

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ALICE ROOSEVELT WAS HARDCORE. “She was known as a rule-breaker in an era when women were under great pressure to conform. The American public noticed many of her exploits. She smoked cigarettes in public, swore at officials, rode in cars with men, stayed out late partying, kept a pet snake named Emily Spinach (Emily as in her spinster aunt and Spinach for its green color) in the White House, and was seen placing bets with a bookie. 

[gandalfthegreywarden-deactivate]

Rock on.

[adamturnsheel]

Was the entire Roosevelt family bad ass bosses?

[rjsalmond]

"Emily Spinach" laughing forever I love it

[beatonna]

Wee Teddy Roosevelt 

[winstonwolfe]

FUCK YEAH TEDDY ROOSEVELT TURNT UP AT WORLD CUP WUUUT

[thebrainscoop]

The Great Deer of Kashmir, subspecies of wapiti (Cervus canadensis hanglu), shot by Teddy Roosevelt on an expedition with Field Museum scientists in 1925.

[cracked]

There’s a reason we put him on two separate Cracked Dispensary shirts.

The 45 Most Badass Lines Ever Uttered in Real Life

[mollay]

Hey Theodore Roosevelt, remember that time someone tried to assassinate you, but you just laughed and proceeded to give a 90-minute long speech with the bullet lodged in your lung, where it remained for the rest of your life? Or when you tore up your leg after being thrown into piranha-infested waters while exploring uncharted Brazil? Or all those times you broke your ribs from falling off horses while doing badass jumps? Or when you destroyed the sight in your left eye in a White House boxing match? Or that time you killed a cougar in a knife fight (seriously)? And how the only way death could finally get to you was in your sleep, in the early morning on January 6th in 1919. Here's to TR as the infinite inspiration for pure, condensed badassery.

[doomydoggy]

furnweh:

Theodore Roosevelt, October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919

“Death had to take him sleeping, for if Roosevelt had been awake there would have been a fight.”

Original Badass.

All of our presidents combined can’t add up to how much of a badass he was.

TR Appreciation Post ‘12

[fuckyeahhistorycrushes]

Not to mention he was an attractive mother fucker.

[batwynn]

The original founder of ‘Team free will’. Thankyouverymuch.

[ratsoff]

[alanaisalive]

[Caption: Health is never a measure of human worth, written over photos of Teddy Roosevelt, RJ Mitte, Miles Davis, Helen Keller, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Michael J. Fox, Stephen Hawking, and Lucille Ball]

Teddy Roosevelt, former president with epilepsy and asthma

R.J. Mitte, actor with cerebral palsy

Miles Davis, jazz musician with sickle cell disease

Helen Keller, writer and social activist with hearing and visual impairment

Franklin D. Roosevelt, former president with polio

Michael J. Fox, actor with Parkinson’s disease

Stephen Hawking, physicist with ALS (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis)

Lucille Ball, actress with rheumatoid arthritis

When you use phrases like, “as long as you’re healthy” these are just a few of the people that your language is excluding.  No one owes you health.  Being healthy does not make you a good person, and being unhealthy does not make you a bad person.  The state of a person’s body does not reflect their soul, their mind, or their worth as a human being.