Title: Theodore Roosevelt Description: Theodore Roosevelt (AKA: Teddy; T.R.; October 27, 1858-January 6, 1919), shown posing as a lieutenant colonel of the 1st U.S. Cavalry in 1898, when he led the Rough Riders in the Spanish-American War (1898); Roosevelt was an American politician, military leader and twenty-sixth President of the U.S. (September 14, 1901-March 4, 1909); Roosevelt is best remembered as a reformer whose motto was "speak softly and carry a big stick': he helped to eliminate child labor, improved conditions for American workers, served as a heroic military leader during the Spanish-American War (1898) as a colonel commanding the 1st U.S. Cavalry (Rough Riders), who captured San Juan Hill (awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor); he oversaw the digging of the Panama Canal and sent the Great White Fleet to many foreign waters to show American force as well as negotiated the peace for the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace; Roosevelt was profiled in cameo many times in films, but most notably in a wonderful and incisive study by Brian Keith in the 1975 film The Wind and the Lion;" Category: U.S. Presidents Keywords: chief executives, colonels, heads of government, heads of state, highest political officials, military leaders, politicians, presidents of the U.S., U.S. presidents, world leaders. Orientation: Vertical Dimensions: 1050 x 2468 (2.59 MPixels) (2.35) Print Size: 8.9 x 20.9 cm; 3.5 x 8.2 inches File Size: 7.42 MB (7,784,298 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000037079 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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