Title: Theodore Roosevelt Description: Theodore Roosevelt (AKA: Teddy; T.R.; October 27, 1858-January 6, 1919), shown as a giant caricature moving the U.S. fleet (called the Great White Fleet, its battleships painted a gleaming white) throughout the Caribbean to enforce the Monroe Doctrine; he seized the island republic of Santo Domingo in 1904, paying off the island's foreign debt of $18 million by having U.S. warships collect its customs duties; 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: battleships, Big Stick, caricatures, clubs, chief executives, Great White Fleet, heads of government, heads of state, highest political officials, military leaders, Monroe Doctrine, political cartoons, politicians, presidents of the U.S., U.S. Navy, Santo Domingo, U.S. presidents, world leaders. Orientation: Landscape Dimensions: 2100 x 1520 (3.19 MPixels) (1.38) Print Size: 17.8 x 12.9 cm; 7.0 x 5.1 inches File Size: 9.14 MB (9,588,386 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000037085 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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