 Childhood struggles  Teddy’s illnesses

 Works hard in his father’s home gym  Overcomes illnesses through the strength of his will

 Harvard years  Boxing

 Roosevelt’s “classroom” education

 1881 – Climbing the Matterhorn  Death of mother and wife  Retreat to the Badlands

 Learned lessons in the Badlands  “Took the snob out of me”  Love of the open land  Shaped future policies

 Marriage to Edith  Tales of Teddy Roosevelt and his six children (only five in this picture because Quentin is not yet born)

 President of the NYC Board of Police Commissioners  Already a “mover and a shaker” and a friend of the common man

 Roosevelt as part of this volunteer regiment  Victory at San Juan Hill  Medal of Honor

 Roosevelt’s progressive campaign style  Powerful speeches

 Assassination of McKinley  A “visible president”

 Family picture at Sagamore Hill in Oyster Bay on Long Island, New York  Stories of Roosevelt’s enjoyment of his children

1903

 How things “ought to be”  A bully pulpit speech in Evanston, Illinois

 Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. 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. But fortunately I had my manuscript, so you see I was going to make a long speech, and there is a bullet - there is where the bullet went through - and it probably saved me from it going into my heart. The bullet is in me now, so that I cannot make a very long speech, but I will try my best.

 National Parks, National Forests, game and bird preserves, and other federal reservations  230,000,000 acres President Theodore Roosevelt at Yosemite in 1903.

"Leave it as it is. You can not improve on it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it."

 A fair shake for all  Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906  Meat Inspection Act of 1906

 “We draw the line against misconduct, not against wealth.”  Work to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits"  Northern Securities (Railroads)  Coal Strike of 1902 Threats to have army run mines  Roosevelt the “Trust Buster”

 A favorite proverb, "Speak softly and carry a big stick.... "  Social Darwinism

 Meeting of the Big Three  American Football Rules Committee was formed  Rules to make the game less dangerous

 First to invite an African American to a White House dinner  First to have Secret Service protection  First to win Nobel Peace Prize for his work towards ending the Russo-Japanese War  First to take trip outside the United States

 First to give an open invitation to the press  First to be submerged in a submarine, to own a car, to have a telephone in his home, and to be allowed to operate the light switches in the White House

 Theodore Roosevelt with incoming President William Howard Taft on Taft's inauguration day in 1909

 The “Progressive Bull Moose” loses in 1912  Life goes on  Theodore Roosevelt at the wedding of his daughter Ethel to Richard Derby.

 Agony over the death of Quentin in World War I  "Grandfather" Roosevelt hugs baby granddaughter Edith Roosevelt Derby, 1918.

 "The old lion is dead."  Photo shows the burial of Theodore Roosevelt, January 1919 in Young’s Memorial Cemetery, Oyster Bay, NY.