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The title of the cartoon "1910 cartoon shows Roosevelt's multiple roles to 1919" must surely be incorrect unless the cartoonist had precognitive abilities, Wolbo 10:21, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
Hello all. I've done a partial revert to correct some vandalism from 209.94.106.3 on 5 Feb 07. Bdevoe 22:03, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
I'm a little upset, because it seems that someone has gone onto the page and revised the simplified spelling paragraph back into normal English. Could someone please correct this? Thank you. 129.170.233.187 21:56, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
The paragraph that talks about Alice being called sister by her siblings, which appears before she was given to her aunt for care, really confuses me. Was there time travel so that she lived during the second marriage with her siblings and then traveled back in time to be given to her aunt? I'm guesing that some point about Alice and TR's relationship later in life, but that isn't related to TR's first marriage.Mulp 01:06, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
I have read that Alice spent some limited time during visits with her half-siblings when they were young. "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt" Rickster77 00:25, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
Theres some stuff in the death section thats not about his death. Im not sure where i should put it though... JamesBenjamin 04:12, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
...Response/suggestions:
...The item about the White House Gang could go in White House section.
Then maybe a new section: Religious Views and Life Philosophy to cover religious practices, Freemason, views and strenuous life, physical activity etc. This new section could go right after "World War I" section.
The item about his name preference: "Teddy vs. Theodore" could go in childhood, education and personal life. How does that sound?
Rickster77 00:41, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
This can no longer be in dispute because we have Roosevelt, himself, pronouncing it on an 1898 audio file and also corresponding with several people on the correct pronunciation "Rose-ah-velt." See audio of TR announcing bugle calls with that pronuciation in 1898 at http://vvl.lib.msu.edu/record.cfm as well as TR from a letter on the same at http://inogolo.com/pronunciation/d227/Theodore_Roosevelt and finally from the Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia at the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) Web site at http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/TR%20Web%20Book/TR_CD_to_HTML571.html SimonATL 22:12, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
Roosevelt was on the cover of Time Magazine as the feature article on June 26, 2006 entitled, The 20th Century Express - At home and abroad, Theodore Roosevelt was the locomotive President, the man who drew his flourishing nation into the future. Any bets if the editors read our article. I also heard that Time Magazine's editors did consult with the Theodore Roosevelt Association in researching their cover story. SimonATL 22:53, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
The first item states TR's first photo was of him looking out window at Lincoln funeral train. I have never seen any factual record to verify that one of these two faces was TR. I think we need to stick to the facts and re-write this to say one of the two distant faces could possibly be TR. The faces are way too small in the photo. The photo by the way was an area wide photo of Lincoln Funeral train with many distant faces. To say it IS a picture of TR is really not correct. This has never been proven to show TR, . . Or has it been??
Can anyone verify that Roosevelt actually said "I don't go so far as to think that 'the only good Indians are dead Indians', but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn't like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth" ? Thanks. - TheMightyQuill 23:50, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
Source: Roosevelt in the Bad Lands, Hermann Hagedorn (Boston, 1921), pp. 354-356
Where is the content for this heading? It makes the overall article weaker by raising reader expectations Fidelia 01:22, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
In the "Puck" cartoon of TR handing over his polices to Taft, can we get an identification of who the bellman carrying the Big Stick is a caricature of? Wondering, -- Infrogmation 16:07, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
I think it is William Loeb in the pic but it sure does look like Theodore Roosevelt playing all the characters but maybe it is someone else. Who knows? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.120.145.194 (talk) 23:52, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
What happened to the main page? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bubbablake 2 (talk • contribs) 23:56, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
The article at present says "Roosevelt did not swear on the Bible nor on any other book, making him unique among presidents." The first phrase of the sentence is sourced, the second had a request for a reference. This list on memory.loc was just given as a citation, but I am removing it because as far as I can see it does not actually confirm the final phrase of the sentence. This list of what presidents took the oath by lists several as "unknown". Unless we have a specific reference showing that all other presidents than TR took their oaths on a book, I suggest we change the phrase to something on the order of "Roosevelt did not swear on the Bible nor on any other book, contrary to the ususual tradition of US presidents." Other thoughts? -- Infrogmation 11:14, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
The article currently says (without citation):
Historians do generally agree that he did this, but whether they credit or blame him for it is another matter; that an expansion of presidential power was a good thing is a quite controversial thesis. A number of critics of neoconservatism, in particular, blame Roosevelt for setting a precedent whereby the presidency simply seizes power for itself. See, among other sources, Thomas Woods's 33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed to Ask, pp. 136–142 (admittedly not the world's most neutral source, but it was the first one handy; there are plenty of more sober analyses, from both the left and the libertarian right, that criticize Roosevelt on this point). As a more trivial point, Mark Twain was also not a fan of his policies ("insane & irresponsible"). --Delirium 09:31, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
His views on Indians and countries peopled with an "inferior race" need to listed to make this article less hagiographic. I have accordingly added excerpts from "Winning the west" Indianminister 08:12, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
Answer - TR said the following words about American Indians in a speech in January 1886 in South Dakota, which is readable in connection with the subject in hand. He is contrasting the cowboy with the indian. Interestingly, after attacking stereotypes of the cowboy as "ruffians and desperadoes" he goes indicates his contempt for the Indians that he had seen out in the Dakota territory and Wyoming where he went to hunt and ranch from approximately 1883-1886. Bear in mind the the Indians that he had seen were far from the sterotypical "noble red man" of earlier sagas. Many displaced Indians had been forced to survive by stealing the white man's cattle that had also displaced the American bison. Their actions were the direct consequence of their having lost the Wars of the Plains to the US Army. Having witnessed the slaughter of tens of millions of bison in both the great southern and northern herds, the Indians were more often than not cheated out of the US government's food allocations on their reservations by crooked agents. The story is widely known. Roosevelt simply reflects the popular Dakota stereotypes toward the defeated indians that the cowboys and ranchers with whom he had associated himself held. Here's what TR said: "My friends seem to think," said Roosevelt, "that I can talk only on two subjects-the bear and the cowboy-and the one I am to handle this evening is the more formidable of the two. After all, the cowboys are not the ruffians and desperadoes that the nickel library prints them. Of course, in the frontier towns where the only recognized amusements are vices, there is more or less of riot and disorder. But take the cowboy on his native heath, on the round-up, and you will find in him the virtues of courage, endurance, good fellowship, and generosity. He is not sympathetic. The cowboy divides all humanity into two classes, the sheep and the goats, those who can ride bucking horses and those who can't; and I must say he doesn't care much for the goats. "I suppose I should be ashamed to say that I take the western view of the Indian. I don't go so far as to think that the only good Indian is the dead Indian, but I believe nine out of every ten are, and I shouldn't like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth. The most vicious cowboy has more moral principle than the average Indian. Take three hundred low families of New York and New Jersey, support them, for fifty years, in vicious idleness, and you will have some idea of what the Indians are. Reckless, revengeful, fiendishly cruel, they rob and murder, not the 'cowboys who can take care of themselves, but the defenseless, lone settlers of the plains. As for the soldiers, an Indian chief once asked Sheridan for a cannon. 'What! do you want to kill my soldiers with it?' asked the general. 'No,' replied the chief, 'Want to kill cowboy; kill soldier with a club.' "Ranch life is ephemeral. Fences are spreading. all over the western country, and, by the end of the century, most of it will be under cultivation. I, for one, shall be sorry to see it go; for when the cowboy disappears, one of the best and healthiest phases of western life will disappear with him." Source: Roosevelt in the Bad Lands, Hermann Hagedorn (Boston, 1921), pp. 354-356
A COMMENT on TR's opinion. Let's remember that TR was only 28 when he said this, he had seen for himself the horrible condition under which the Indians were living under, having been defeated and put on reservations less than 10 years before his speech. Custer had been defeated less than 10 years before and anti-Indian sentiment still ran high. Also when he became a Commissioner of the US Civil Service and had to tour government installations from coast to coast and actually witnessed, first hand, the squalor and neglect of native Americans, his attitude toward them softened considerably and he fought on the behalf against the corruption of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the wholesale theft of provisions set aside for the Indians by crooked federal agents.SimonATL 20:27, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
OK, I can understand that people might often mispronounce "Roosevelt", but I've never heard anyone get the number of syllables wrong, which makes that comment seem strange and pointless. Simply stating that he pronounced the first vowel sound as a long O instead of a long U should be sufficient. - 66.93.200.116 (talk) 14:44, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
Much of this article exhibits a strong bias towards justifying Roosevelt's imperialistic policies. That the Roosevelt Corollary was added to intervene 'when governmental corruption made it necessary', and that Roosevelt intended to 'help' "underdeveloped" nations seem particularly absurd an strongly exemplify a racist and paternalistic justification of violent intervention into Latin American nations. Considering much of T.R.'s legacy is cementing an aggressive imperialist approach to hemispherical affairs it is very important to amend this article. SDali2008 —Preceding signed but undated comment was added at 10:16, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
It seems that our friend TR is entirely with out sin! how patriotic!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.152.48.161 (talk) 16:51, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
TR 'helped' Panama declare independance? Charging imperialism is hardly a 21st century critique, TR was widely attacked as an aggressive imperialist at the time. This article is strongly pro-Roosevelt, glorifying development in colonial possessions, ignoring popular opposition in the Philippines, the Platt Amendment and Domination of Cuba. This article regurgitates government rhetoric as fact. TR's role in imperialism is dramatic, using his involvement in the Spanish American War to catapult him to power. The Roosevelt Correlary marks a very important turning point in U.S. foreign policy, reversing the revolutionary Monroe doctrine and rejecting Central American sovereignty and asserting the U.S. as the active hemispherical hegemon. This article fails on several front, recognizing the historical importance of TR in forming the new American empire, establishing NPOV tone and analysis that delineates rhetoric from reality, glowing admiration of a controversial leader, and apologist appraisal of imperialism that should sicken anyone outside the U.S., as well as any Americans who seek an honest evaluation of U.S. action and the growth of American power. Much of TR scholarship is ignored, and it embarrasses the wikipedia community that this page is not NPOV tagged.68.56.175.198 (talk) 08:41, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
Sure TR was and is controversial, but he was the FIRST president since Lincoln to grasp growing national problems that had been ignored for over a half a century, face up to them and demand effective national strategies to address them. And to these problems he brought his world-class education, experience at all levels of government, a consistent policy of fairness, equity and the square deal and pushed and shoved an isolationist and increasingly socially polarized American society into the 20th Century. Of COURSE there were aspects of this pushing and shoving that need discussion in this article, but TR was no pinheaded cowboy jingoist, he brought a coherent imperialist view to both national and international issues and set the US on a course of growth that created the modern US society - yes, and for better or worse a much changed country from the post-Civil War country of his childhood.
Any country on earth would be blessed to have a national leader as well prepared for the demands of his age as was Theodore Roosevelt in his time. We can no longer afford on-the-job training for national leaders who are told what to think by their so-called handlers. We need leaders actually prepared for national leadership. SimonATL (talk) 05:07, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
SimonATL (talk) 15:38, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
Yes, the article contains a great many number of pluses, but they are aptly born out by many written sources. The article also contains discussions of some of TR's negatives, ego, immaturity, impulsiveness, big mouth, occasional lapses of candot - including quotes fro some of his biggest historical critics such as Henry Pringle (19310) which can continue to be expanded upon. SimonATL (talk) 23:15, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
I realize that Wikipedia articles are encouraged to have uniform-sized illustrations. However, in the spirit of WP:IAR we should also realize that making a good article sometimes demands a few enlargements. Particularly photos of 50 men of which just one is the essay subject, sometimes defy even identifying the subject without fixing the photo. I've done that for 3 key black and whites in this article. See what you think. I also noted that there was very large empty space at one point, which provided room for a enlargement of the official portrait, which is about as good a visual impression as we have of the standing subject. So I blew that up, too. I hope it works on everybody's readers, and invite comment on this. Also, feel free to enlarge anything else in this article that gives you squints. I personaly had trouble even with a 21 inch viewer, and my eyes are fine. SBHarris 06:38, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
I am doing a paper for school about TR as a tyrannical leader...I know I shouldn't be looking at wikipedia to begin with, but I am just to get an idea. Anyways, this article is essentially all pro-Teddy. I feel like this is not right and not encyclopedic —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.67.121.171 (talk) 00:14, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
Why do we need TR today? Because we need to read about a man who can give a speech minutes after being shot in the chest by an assassin. And a more innocent world in which he's allowed to do so (before Ghandi, JFK, RFK, MLK, Bhutto…). America seems to have lost something post-9/11, and our average citizens need to take something of the pluck of TR.
But the dark side of TR is that he was childlike in his egoism (which in adults we call egotism), and sometimes he went over the top, as in the spelling reform which the article mentions, but doesn't really underscore the significance of. This is real mania, on the verge of mental illness. People like this can accomplish amazing things (TR being prime example). But they can also be really dangerous, especially when lacking self insight. Brands makes a strong argument that this was a fairly significant flaw which went hand in hand with TR's greatest strength-- the Aristotelian hubris of the romantic hero. Yes, the article mentions ARL's comment that TR wanted to be the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral. And that's funny enough that there's not enough sober consideration given to the idea that it might be more or less true, and to Brands' assertion that TR was more or less incapable of seeing anybody who disagreed with him as other than corrupt, stupid, immoral, or cowardly. Sometimes all at once. And that's not good. If there was ever a human being who didn't WP:AGF, TR was that man. This needs a bit more discussion to give the full treatment of a man who lacked the introspection and self-mockery of (say) a JFK. It's just amazing TR didn't get into more trouble than he did. Consider that our present president with the horrid approval rating has only a fraction of the self-assurance-in-the-face-of-all-evidence, that TR had. But of course TR was saved many a time from disaster by his knowledge, energy, and other kinds of intelligence. Fascinating character. SBHarris 05:38, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
POV? No - Why? True, the article contains a great many number of pluses, but they are aptly born out by many written sources. The article also contains discussions of some of TR's negatives, ego, immaturity, impulsiveness, big mouth, occasional lapses of candot - including quotes fro some of his biggest historical critics such as Henry Pringle (19310) which can continue to be expanded upon. SimonATL (talk) 23:15, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
I Vote YES to remove the silly POV tag. Vidor (talk) 12:18, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
I Vote YES (also) to remove the silly POV tag. Criticisms going back to TR's time and also from his most vociferous critics such as Henry Pringle (1932 bio) are also incorporated. Yes, he could be an egomaniac, a jingoist and an imperialist. So what, he's not on Mt. Rushmore for nothing. Yes, he DID advance his own personal interests, but they were almost totally consistent with the USA national interest as well. Critics and supporters agree on most of the positives as well as the negatives. He's NOT quoted by every USA 2008 presidential candidate for nothing! Remove the tag ASAP. And I'll do it myself unless I hear a good case for the POV, which I haven't seen yet. Here' what the critics should do -
The "Assassination attempt" section contains this sentence:
Something's a bit garbled here. Does "besides" mean that he had two reasons not to go? --207.176.159.90 (talk) 03:04, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
I recently spent a considerable amount of time fact-tagging roughly 1/4 of this article (intending to finish later), which contains a large amount of unencyclopedic prose. User Vidor later swept in and waved his magic wand, undoing all my hard work. In light of this, I'm here to request the addition of a refimprove box at the top of the page. I'd do it myself, but like so much of Wikipedia, this article is apparently no longer a community project. I'd love to see how long the guardians of this article can tolerate their masterpiece being "defaced" by such an irreverent request for quality control. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.241.198.109 (talk) 16:20, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
I've just read the article and I think the lead paragraph could do with a major re-vamping, it looks too long and un-tidy. AndreNatas (talk) 22:21, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
From the article:
- "Civilised man can only keep the peace by subduing his barbarian neighbour."
- "Their life was only a few degrees less meaningless, squalid and ferocious than that of wild animals." (Justifying his role in slaughtering Indians in South Dakota.)
That says nothing about white supremacy, at all. --Windsock (talk) 17:12, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
I decided to rewrite and repair all of the convoluted prepositional phrases in the final paragraph (The 1884 convention). Not only were they confusingly stacked, in unwieldy sentences, but there were unnecessary words that hindered the sentence flow. You can see the earlier versions for this. I think it reads better now.Dfoofnik (talk) 19:32, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
Just a brief mention of Mr. Jim Foote who regularly goes around the country (I've seen him in DC and in TR's home town, where I live) "performing" as President Roosevelt. Anyone who is a "fan, admirer and TR enthusiast" would probably agree mentioning Mr. Foote is appropriate or at the very least an interesting tid-bit. Dantali (talk) 16:18, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
Sorry if this is really minuscule, but in the army template thing a ways down in the article detailing TR's command, his rank is listed as "Colonek", which I am assuming should be "Colonel" as the article itself states. This is a minor thing, but I don't have an account ATM, so if anyone agrees, it would be a good idea to change it? Thanks. 68.56.217.30 (talk) 15:08, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Theodore Roosevelt was the first American to be awarded a Nobel Prize (in any category) in 1906, and he remains the only sitting president to win the Nobel Peace Prize (for his part in ending the Russo-Japanese War). Jimmy Carter won the award as a former president.
What about Woodrow Wilson (1919)?
This quote from New York World is a journalistic satire, not a real example of spelling reform.
“ | When nerly three centuries ago, the first settlers kam to the kuntry which has bekom this great republik, tha confronted not only hardship and privashun, but terible risk of thar lives. . . . The kustum has now bekum nashnul and hallowed by immemorial usaj.. | ” |
Page 155 of Robert E. Kling's 1970 The Government Printing Office, has details on this, including the date of publication in the newspaper. Unfortunately, Google Books isn't letting me read the whole page on that.--Pharos (talk) 04:45, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
This incident may in fact be important enough to Roosevelt's career that it does belong somewhere on this page, but the paragraph that keeps getting added to the "views on race" section seems to have parachuted in there at random. I appreciate that the IP editor is trying to be reasonable, and has trimmed down the unsourced editorialising that it used to contain, but now we need to decide whether it belongs on the page at all, and if so where? It also still needs cleaning up, since the latest version just isn't comprehensible English. But the more important question is where, if anywhere, to put it.
ETA: It is already at Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, where it occupies one sentence. It certainly shouldn't take up more space in the main article than it does in the sub-article. -- Zsero (talk) 22:32, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
I agree that it’s important enough to be somewhere on the page. Since it is referred in one sentence however, I feel as though it’s enough. --DavidD4scnrt (talk) 04:34, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
He appears to have been given the same pronunciation as FDR. TR was rose velt whereas FDR was roo se velt 13:01, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
Can we find a better picture of the Lincoln Penny? By 1968, the image of Lincoln had strayed from VDB's work, and had much bolder features. In 1969, the mint decided to return to VDB's original design, which was more subtle, but since that time, the work has strayed again. An image of a 1969 penny or a 1909 penny would be a better tribute to VDB's work. --MiguelMunoz (talk) 03:40, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
Under the "firsts" section, this award should be cited as "the Medal of Honor", not "a Medal of Honor".
Additionally the MOH image should be included and placed at the top of his image as well. I had placed it next to the Noble Peace Price and someone unjustly removed it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.183.219.24 (talk) 06:54, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
I heard a version of the "Big Stick" quote once that went
Is this someone embellishing or is this part of the original quote? Obviously with out confirmation and citation it can't go in the article but I thought it relevant if minor. Dachande (talk) 16:36, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
The Noble icon was there...now it's been deleted for some erroneous reason.
T.R. deserves having BOTH the MOH & NPP icons near his image due to their tremendous significance. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.100.104.17 (talk) 19:45, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
I'm reading David McCullough's "Mornings on Horseback" right now and on pg. 19, it states the building is a five-story, and so I changed it accordingly. However, the official brochure I downloaded by a .pdf file says "A fourth story was also added to the original three-story brownstone." However, it doesn't say anything about further renovations. Therefore it implies that it is a four-story. Which is right? Exec. Tassadar (comments, contribs) 13:11, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
When did Roosevelt leave the office of Assistant Secretary of the Navy? The infobox is wrong, and the information is not in the article. Sectori (talk) 13:08, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
There is somewhere a great photo of Teddy as a boy leaning out a New York apt bulding window watching a parade of some important person. I don't remember where I saw it, but if anyone does, it would be a great addtion to this article. If I remember correctly it is only a coincidence that Teddy was in the picture.Trucker11 (talk) 11:47, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
I was always told that TR was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity while at Harvard, I noticed today that the TR wikipedia page lists his fratewrnity as Alpha Delta Phi. Both fraternities seem to claim his membership. What's the correct answer?Jlbelford4 (talk) 18:20, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
The citation for the story that the Teddy bear is so named because Roosevelt refused to kill it actually contradicts that claim in the article; this link says Roosevelt order a bear's mercy killing. I don't know if I ought to edit the article or the link, as I'm not sure which is true. Seijihyouronka (talk) 22:23, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
Why no edit?? I was going to put some information that Teddy was the youngest president in the history of the United States, but I can't edit the aricle to do so. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Madirox22 (talk • contribs) 16:19, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
What is the reason for including the "Moh" image and link to the left of Roosevelt's name in the infobox? There is no source citation to justify this inclusion, and it thus seems inappropriate. I propose deletion of this medal-like image and link. Comments? —Adavidb 11:53, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
This account clearly comes from Owen Wister. The story where C.S. Hanks and TR fought, Hanks punched TR when the referee called time at the end of a round. However, not only did the article Wister wrote appear twenty years after the incident, another eyewitness, George Spalding, called Wister's account "the most barefaced egregious manufactured history ever conceived." Additionally, while the NY Times and the Harvard Advocate published comments and accounts of the boxing match, none of them mention any high sportsmanship, nor does TR himself in his diary. Exec. Tassadar (comments, contribs) 11:00, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
TR was a prolific writer and incredibly effective public speaker - but there is nothing in the article to suggest that or to provide a good link to this info. Aren't there any TR specialists out there that could make this contribution to the article?Vontrotta (talk) 11:48, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Would anyone mind if I were to add a bit about the resolution of the Venezuela crisis, which essentially precipitated the Roosevelt Corrollary to the Monroe Doctrine. It is really a marvelous bit of diplomacy. There are features of TR's foreign policy that demonstrate a mastery of "speak softly" as opposed to the dominant view of his "big stick" attitude.
Quigonpaj (talk) 15:33, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
The beginning of the article makes claims about Roosevelt and universal health care, but I do not see where this is discussed in the article proper. Am I missing something? 65.6.60.78 (talk) 14:26, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
The following sentence occurs in the first paragraph of the Republican Party Rift section: "When Roosevelt realized that lowering the tariff would risk severe tensions inside the Republican Party—pitting producers (manufacturers and farmers) against merchants and consumers—he stopped talking about the issue."
This sentence starts a discussion about some tariff, without having mentioned anywhere in that section what tariff they are referring to. It looks as if somehow in the editing process, there was a disconnect introduced between the section up to this sentence, and the remainder of this section. I don't know enough about the subject to fix it, but as a reader I found it confusing. --MisterSquirrel 01:19, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
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I think its important to show photos that emphasize TR's vigorous and bellicose nature because they went into the making who he was. Also added photos to TR's first wife, Alice and his first daughter, Alice. Added pages with photos of both Roosevel's mother, Martha (Mittie) Bulloch Roosevelt and his father Theodore, Sr. Please continue to edit for clarity and content. Thanks SimonATL 8:10, 20 Feb 2006 (UTC)
Agreed.64.0.112.9 (talk) 04:14, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
this quote: "Ladies and gentlemen, 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."[72] is supposedly from the [72] reference page, but it is actually not to be found there.--132.69.238.217 (talk) 20:08, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
I saw the too long tag on the article and did some measurements. I used Firebug_(Firefox_extension) to get total size and download time for a fast broadband connection (so time depends on wikimedia server bandwidth).
The actual HTML part of each article (not including the images, javascript and CSS) is around 90 Kilobytes, so most of the contribution to the slow loading of these articles is not due to the text. It is due to images, references, and the navigation templates at the bottom.
I also used wikipedia's Page Size gadget to get the prose size:
That's as far as I got before wikimedia servers reported problems. Even though the figures might look not so good for Theodore Roosevelt's article, I don't think it should be split for readability reasons alone (i.e. I did not find it arduous to read). If the too long tag is intended to alert editors that it's taking too long to load (and must be impossible for a dial-up user), I would agree, but most Featured Articles have this problem and the solution lies not in cutting the text but in severely pruning the templates (and maybe reduce the actual byte-size of the image thumnbnails). Maybe split the navigation templates to a subpage? I hope this helps. -84user (talk) 17:59, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
I highly disagree. This page is too small. Please add more information peoples. Thank you. 209.68.139.250 (talk) 17:44, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
I'd have to disagree as well, I wouldn't say it's too small, but its a good amount of length, and it is indepth without being boring, lets keep it —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.112.20.78 (talk) 22:26, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
The first book published section is written in terribly poor English from the very first sentence ("While at Harvard, the [sic] Roosevelt began a systematic study..."). I would fix it, but I can't edit the page, and the quality of the language frankly leads me to doubt the quality of the content contained therein. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.67.215.114 (talk) 23:22, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
This article indicates that TR did not use a Bible for his inauguration and is footnoted as #46.
At this US Senate site http://inaugural.senate.gov/history/chronology/troosevelt1905.cfm it says that he used the same Bible he took his oath of office as NY Governor in 1898, and that it was opened to James 1:22-23.
It's an official Senate history site, so shouldn't that be taken as a primary source?
Ktho64152 (talk) 00:20, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
I believe he used a bible for his second inauguration, but I don't think he used a bible for his first one because it was an emergency inauguration after the assassination of President William McKinley.Tad Lincoln (talk) 06:11, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
In the "Life in the Badlands" section, it is mentioned that Roosevelt read Tolstoy to keep himself awake while guarding three outlaws. The link attached to the name Tolstoy leads to an article on the Tolstoy family of Russia. I believe this is a mistake. Shouldn't the link lead to the article about Leo Tolstoy? Can someone please change this? I do not know how to.131.193.229.41 (talk) 06:25, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
I'm slightly concerned that the section regarding TR's views on race paints a skewed picture of the guy. He's almost portrayed as a nasty, bigoted racist, when he was actually quite progressive for his time. Much of his views that seem despicable now are better understood within the context of his views of evolution, believing that the "negro race" (sorry if that comes off as being offensive) was simply behind the white race, and needed to promote and encourage its most successful members to "catch up." He spoke very often of treating each person on their merits, regardless of color, and was outspoken in his support for Japanese immigrants against discrimination. I've written something I'd like to add to the section, but I fear it might focus too much of the overall article on the issue of race. I also think the "Views on Race" section should be moved farther down the article underneath the "Character and Beliefs section." Any thoughts on that?
Anyway, here is what I wanted to add as a point of clarification to the race section. Is it too long?
It is a bit long, and should be trimmed, but I do think that there needs to be a more balanced inclusion of quotes and anecdotes than what are currently in the article. Or, perhaps it should link to another article "Roosevelt's Views on Race"? Quigonpaj (talk) 15:33, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
Please fix the table at the bottom -- TR became President in 1901, as it says at the top !! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.37.66.13 (talk) 22:29, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
I know that the maniac-"You're-A-Racist!" crowd is a large one so I'm not going to bother to amend this article just to see it reversed three seconds later but I'd be remiss if I didn't note for posterity the utterly ridiculous fact that in a relatively tiny article about one of the most extraordinary public figures in all of American history there's a prominent section well high up in the article entitled "Views on Race".
Don't get me wrong. As a reality-biased individual I'm not interested in seeing these quotes vanish down a memory hole. They just aren't remotely important enough to be included (and so prominently!) in an article of this length.
As a disclaimer I should note that I personally believe it altogether possible that the average Japanese has inherently greater mathematical ability (environmental factors being equal) than the average Pygmy. I see no reason for us to assume that cranial evolution decided to cease when all other forms of evolution continued apace - particularly when faced with overwhelming evidence to the effect that it HAS continued to a worthy-of-mention degree. BUT - even if history DOES bear me out (in a mixed-race future perhaps where everyone will be descended from the same ancestral mongrelized stock) and the (seeming) fact of human differences is yawningly accepted and undisputed, I would protest some future wikipedia taking too great a note of the many extraordinary folk of our day who happen to have been on "the wrong side" of this (or any particular) issue. In general, what I'm protesting is the view of many annoying self-righteous activists who believe that any and every issue must first and foremost be looked at through some particular lense or another. By the moral standards of any particular time or place Theodore Roosevelt's life and personality undoubtedly include both laudable and condemnable details but to choose any particular one to thrust up so highly in a tiny piece about this fascinating giant of a man is to assault truth to an unforgivable degree. - m —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.13.143.121 (talk) 11:29, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
Looking through this article, I am exteremely surprised to find almost no criticism of Teddy, except for the 'Views on race' section, which someone even tried to get deleted or washed down as per above. There has to be some criticism he received somewhere, which should be brough to light. I do agree he was a great man, but the article seems to be severly lacking in balance. 74.95.169.158 (talk) 01:32, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
In 1901 or 1904, Roosevelt joined an expetition led by Candido Mariano Rondon to the countryside of Brazil in which they discovered a river. Based on this trip he wrote ´Through Brazilian Wilderness`. In an issue of ´The New York Times´ released in 1991 or 1992, it is said that Roosevelt had contracted a tropical disease while in Brazil.
Unsigned comment by 97.96.178.226 at 23:22 on 22/01/2009.
Thanks but we already have this noted in the article under '1913–1914 South American Expedition'. AllanHainey (talk) 15:42, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
There is nothing in the article about his death. I did the math and he was only 61 at the time of his passing. Did the bullet wound in his chest have anything to do with it? How, where, and with whom did he pass away? Dank-you-berry-mooch —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.166.17.230 (talk) 16:53, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
What greatly weakend TR was really his trip down to the Amazon Rain forest in 1913. There, he probably caught or RE-caught Malaria, dysenterry, and several other tropical diseases that greatly weakened his immune system. He also cut himself on his foot which led to a terrible infection that, even before he got out of the jungle, nearly killed him. If not for the care of a physician and his son, Kermit who were on the trip, he never would have survived. He was also nearly blind in one eye and nearly deaf in one ear. He had terrible attacks of angina indicating partially blocked arteries, blood vessles that brought to him to his knees in pain in the jungle. When his party arrived at the end of the trip, he had to be carried off his dugout on a stretcher. He had lost over 40 pounds. When he returned to NYC, he wrote a friend that that trip had probably shortened his life by 10 years. Actually it shortened his life more than that. He was in and out of hospitals until he died in Jan 1919. In fact, he had been hospitalized in all of Dec of 1918 almost dying right there. He SURELY lived up to one of his most famous mottos - "Better to burn out than rust out!" SimonATL (talk) 07:10, 12 February 2009 (UTC) See the section on the Amazon trip which I added to the article several years ago. At a Theodore Roosevelt Association symposium in 2006, in Atlanta, GA, I met the author of an excellent book on that adventure/tragedy and she talked about the experience that nearly killed him. Had he NOT taken that 1913 trip, he surely would have been re-elected US president in 1920. In fact, he was making plans for that campaign in January 1919 when he died. SimonATL (talk) 07:10, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
This article is way too long, some of the Presidency should go in the main article. I would also suggest an early life of Theodore Roosevelt, Early professional life of Theodore Roosevelt, and a Post-presidential life of Theodore Roosevelt.--Levineps (talk) 22:56, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
For some reason, this site lists TR's middle initial as "D." Why? What is his middle name? I keep finding that he had no middle name. This should be fixed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.146.191.92 (talk) 19:41, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
TR is an alumnus of Columbia Law School, a fact not mentioned in the "Categories Section" at the bottom of the page. TR's mention as an alumnus of Columbia University does not compensate for the absence of the former. See "Categories Section" for FDR 69.121.23.234 (talk) 23:57, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
There has been some disagreement on whether Theodore Roosevelt had a middle name/initial. This book (copyright 1916) is the source for the current D. initial. I searched to see if I could find corroboration for this information.
I think the middle initial should be removed from the lede. Some information should be added in the early political career section that explains how he acquired a middle initial. A new name 2008 (talk) 02:05, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
One more thing: I did a more specific Google book search -- http://books.google.com/books?id=FysZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA484&dq=%22Theodore+D+Roosevelt%22 with over forty results. This reference from a 1895 publication relating the events of the year is, I think, rather definitive and completely undermines the 1899 New York Times article:
http://books.google.com/books?q=%22Theodore+D+Roosevelt%22&source=in&ei=nswrSvGCNcOFtgfIufzNCA&sa=X&oi=book_group&ct=title&cad=bottom-3results&resnum=11:
The Chautauquan, p. 484; Published by M. Bailey, Publisher, 1895 (note carefully that the caption "President Roosevelt" underneath the iconic engraving refers to his being president of the New York City Board of Police Commissioners, not of the U.S.) In this, he is clearly identified as "Theodore D. Roosevelt," and there is not a reasonable doubt about its accuracy.
Thanks,
BCorr|Брайен 17:37, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
There is no mention of Roosvelt's eccentric coffee drinking why is that? I was watching the History channel and it was mentioned, I went and looked on Wikipedia to clarify and it is not here! I found it on some other websites though. Apparently, he drank up to 1 gallon of coffee a day, I think that is worth noting. I have never edited a wiki entry, and would rather not mess anything up that everyone worked so hard on and I'm not even sure if most of you would consider adding this. Anyways, I will leave it up to the main contributors of this article whether to add this small detail or not. Thanks!
Answer: You're absolutely right on the coffee. In the "TR Rex" bio, Morris mentions TR's breakfasts "laced as usual by vast infusions of caffeine, served only to stoke Roosevelt's energy." pg 17-18. Interesting point. Let's add it under interesting facts. SimonATL 1:10, 23 Feb 2006 (UTC)
Addendum: The quote used by Maxwell House Coffee, "Good To The Last Drop", is a quote from Theodore Roosevelt, who, having stopped in to a roadside home and been given a cup of coffee, made this remark as a compliment to the hostess and the coffee she had brewed.
References: History Channel's "The Presidents" (1825-1849)
He drank two gallons of coffee!4DJONG (talk) 18:40, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
Theodore was a member of Alpha Delta Phi NOT Delta Kappa Epsilon as indicated in article. This needs to be corrected. This can be checked in catalogs of the Alpha Delta Phi. Pneshamkin (talk) 23:12, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
It says as of 2008 TR was the only President to recieve this award. To my knowledge he still is.(edit) This should be updated to show this.Frogo Baggins (talk) 02:54, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
Do we count him as the youngest president that was not elected until his re-election? Seance President Kennedy was the youngest man to ever be elected to the office of president of the united states.Or do we just say he was the youngest one to hold the office without being elected first? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.140.130.69 (talk) 04:34, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
Yes I have read it but im still wondering where do we rank him on the youngest? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.140.130.69 (talk) 13:50, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
This article was too long, and is tagged as such. So I split off the political positions section into a new article, and summarized it here. Thoughts? Purplebackpack89 (talk) 18:03, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
So the discussion is...are you, meaning the Roosevelt editors, OK with just a summary of the political positions so long as the block quotes and the rest of the section are in Political positions of Theodore Roosevelt? I am...and if people agree with me, I'll put it back to the way I had it. Purplebackpack89 (talk) 18:28, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
There is no mention in the article of Theodore Roosevelt National Park, the Elkhorn Ranch unit in particular and the recent acquistion, supported by over 50 conservation groups, of additional lands by the US Forest Service to help preserve the "cradle of conservation". The US Forest Service is currently going through a planning process on how these lands should be managed for future generations. In addition, the National Park Service and the US Forest Service are nominating these lands (headquarters, federal lands, and one - agreeable - private landowner) as a National Historic District. I am certain more information on these efforts can be found out and incorporated into the site by contacting either agency. Sschwenke (talk) 20:51, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
I just restored the middle initial and reference in accordance with the extensive discussion and agreement at Talk:Theodore_Roosevelt/archive2#Middle_initial.3F. I only note it here so that we don't have to go through this all over again.
Thanks, BCorr|Брайен 13:39, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
What does "D" stand for? 76.66.192.144 (talk) 04:10, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
I find many issues that need addressing with the lead of this article. It was brought to my attention by an editor who feels that it is simply too long. Well, it is long, but this is one of the most remarkable men to have lived in the history of America, and it's certainly going to have a longer lead than the average article. In fact, when I first tried rewriting it, instead of trimming its size, I actually ended up with a version that was about 30% longer!
But reading it, I felt that the lead had a more significant problem: It fails the requirement of WP:LEAD that it act as a summary of the article. Some things were left out of the lead, but more strangely, sometimes the treatment in the lead was the biggest treatment a subject received! Anyway, I'm redoing it to be more in compliance with the requirements of the guideline. It certainly won't be perfect. And I'll probably leave out some things that some people think must be in the lead. (I definitely had to leave out stuff that I would have preferred to include.) Anyway, we can always talk about it. Unschool 03:11, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
Any objections if I try to clean up the lead? It is waaaay too long, and full of unneccesary details. Feel free to take this scrub to task if I'm in the wrong here... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.201.234.198 (talk) 17:30, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
I posted the above comment... I fully expect another paragraph or two to pop up very shortly, but I've tried my best to 'cut the fat' from the lead. It's probably too brief, but there's so much information to cover concerning TR - my point is that the lead can't and shouldn't be 1000 words long. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.201.234.198 (talk) 18:02, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
Viewing the "Civil Service Commission" section under "Reentering Public Life" the second paragraph is clearly a supposed to be a blockquote. I went to edit the code and it appear that the blockquote tags are in place an properly formatted. I am not seeing that paragraph display properly. I am running Mozilla Firefox 3.5.3. I also viewed the section in IE 8 and it is similarly broken. 67.182.190.19 (talk) 06:55, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
I recently undid an edit where this article had the info box codex all messed up and not being pictured on the page. Quite embarrassing to see a former President's wikipedia page not properly protected from vandalism. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.5.241.139 (talk) 22:25, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
Needs more summary style and daughter articles. My main suggestions are Childhood of Theodore Roosevelt and Post-Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt Purplebackpack89 (talk) 03:08, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
Somewhere along the line, somebody changed the section entitled "Political Positions" to "Roosevelt's Views", buried the link to Political positions of Theodore Roosevelt, and added two long sections that belong there, not here. I renamed it back to "Political Positions", made the link prominent, and pasted the sections there. Thoughts? Purplebackpack89 (talk) 04:16, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
The main article on Theodore Roosevelt, 26th U.S. present, contains these two sentences.
"He was effectively running the US Department of the Navy when the Spanish American War broke out; he resigned and led a small regiment in Cuba known as the Rough Riders, earning himself the Medal of Honor."
"Colonel Roosevelt and the Rough Riders after capturing San Juan HillFor his actions, Roosevelt was nominated for the Medal of Honor which was subsequently disapproved."
I could not access the article to correct it.
Arnold Bendixen (talk) 00:18, 23 December 2009 (UTC)Arnold Bendixen
I just wanted to ask what was it that was spammed? I don't believe I have ever made any contributions to this article and I apparently have recieved 3 warnings since June of 2006. I have barely started editing articles on Wikipedia around September. Is this an error, I really don't want to get banned or anything especially when it is not my fault. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Clow987 (talk • contribs) 16:30, 12 November 2006.
A new history of what the author James Bradley calls "the imperial cruise" -- his previous books include Flags of our fathers; Bradley's father was one of the famous Iwo Jima flag-raisers profiled in that book/movie -- posits that Pres. T. Roosevelt's secret dealings with and leanings toward the Japanese, during the negotiations over the end of the Russo-Japanese war, sowed seeds of the attack, nearly 40 years later, on Pearl Harbor. The eponymous cruise covered in Bradley's new book was a high-profile Pacific cruise sponsored more or less by TR (his daughter Alice and his Secretary of War were amongst those aboard the Manchuria) in 1905 and foreshadowed the Great White Fleet cruise of 1907-9, which TR ordered (per Wiki).
The following bit I added to the introduction of the TR article, at the point of the Russo-Japanese/Nobel Peace Prize note, citing an op-ed Bradley wrote in the NY Times at the time of the recent Pearl Harbor anniversary.
The bit was removed as "nonscholarly pop history" and the editor suggested I introduce it here on the talk page "first." So doing, now.
I recognize that Bradley's new look at TR and the roots of WW2-Pacific is not from the academy, not a scholarly study. However, my reading of Bradley's piece, a couple of reviews of his books (one here), and an excerpt from the book, led me to feel the work he's done and the information he's uncovered has some credibility, brings some new insight, and is worthy of attention. I don't expect his work to single-handedly turn opinion on the President's actions, and the effects of those actions. It may even be proven not credible. But I also don't think my entry, above, undermined the quality of the TR article; I think it opened the subject for readers to consider on its merits, and to build upon or rebut.
When removing my bit, the same editor did improve the exisitng article with a citation from a standard history for the section. I would propose, however, also adding my bit back in following that footnote, since my bit introduces a new viewpoint.
I see there's a "popular culture" section of the TR article. It seems wrong to relegate Bradley's work to such a corner, but ....
Any thoughts? Swliv (talk) 23:02, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
I think there needs to be a greater discussion of Roosevelt's defective moral character and the deleterious effect that it had on the United States. He abandoned his infant daughter while he went out West to find himself. He left his government position to fight in the Spanish-American War. In 1909-1913, unable to fathom the idea that William Howard Taft might disagree with him, he set about to destroy him, and did so, during the 1912 election, by splitting the Republican Party. This enabled the racist adulterer, Woodrow Wilson, to become President, even though Wilson received only a minority of the popular vote. Wilson then went on to bring us the income tax, the Federal Reserve, and unnecessary involvement in the First World War. Wilson also dismantled the protective tariff, allowed the country to be flooded with cheap imports, and effectively destroyed the manufacturing base of the United States. All of this made possible by Theodore Roosevelt's petulant temper tantrum in 1912 when he could not get his way at the Republican Convention. Finally, Theodore Roosevelt seems to have been incapable of intelligent comment on anything. Everything was "bully, bully" for him. As Mark Hanna lamented when President McKinley was killed, "that damn cowboy [Theodore Roosevelt] is President now," or words to that effect.
John Paul Parks (talk) 16:19, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
Sounds like our critic is only familiar with TR from a TV movie or something. And he attacks someone's "defective moral character" by quoting Mark Hanna? Wha??? How corrupt and amoral was Hanna? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.14.91.180 (talk) 22:39, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
I haven't made enough edits to be allowed to edit semi-protected pages but there is a lonely quotation mark after his book title "Published after Roosevelt's graduation from Harvard, The Naval War of 1812" was immediately accepted by reviewers who praised the book’s scholarship and style." (Here: ) —Preceding unsigned comment added by ImFromNASA (talk • contribs) 03:25, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
I just got an email from TR's great grandson, Tweed Roosevelt, who is the chairman of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA). Mr. Roosevelt assured me that Theodore Roosevelt had neither a middle name nor middle initial. Additionally, US Navy Commander, Henry Hendrix, who is a board member of the TRA and who did research on this topic, has copies of TR's birth certificate and other documents that indicate NO middle name nor middle initial. Commander Hendrix is emailing these scanned documents to the TRA Web administrator for inclusion on their web site, http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org and as soon as those documents are posted I will remove the middle initial from this page as it's pretty much a settled issue at this point. We'll wait for those docs to come thru. Be prepared for MI removal! Ultimately, it does NOT matter what the press thought or did not think about Roosevelt's alleged middle name or middle initial. The official records speak for themselves. SimonATL (talk) 00:45, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
The headings of "Education" and "First marriage and response to catastrophic loss" seem out of place. Shouldn't "Education" come before "First marriage and response to catastrophic loss"?
Education starts out talking about his home schooling, which happened during his childhood, and he didn't meet Alice until his junior year at Harvard, and they didn't marry until after his graduation.
Just seems very odd to me. > Best O Fortuna (talk) 09:30, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
footnote link #104 is broken —Preceding unsigned comment added by 169.229.86.152 (talk) 07:20, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
There appears to be a small typo in the "Meat Inspection Act" section. "...that are impure or falsely label, from..." should read "...that are impure or falsely labeled, from..."
--Loki74 (talk) 23:32, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
I like clean and neat black and white at right. The orotone (gold tint) is scruffy and, like the other alternative, lacks detail:
The other alternative is also included as the one below, left. Votes from editors, please? This is an aesthetic question, not one we can solve by appear to WP:RS or WP:V or even WP:NPOV. SBHarris 18:45, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
Search word: Roosvelt. There is one instance under Popular Culture. Please add the correct vowel. Thank you.
24.6.117.160 (talk) 06:15, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
In the {{sisterlinks}} template in the External links section, several of the projects ought to be disabled as they do not return useful results. Please disable Wiktionary, Wikibooks and Wikiversity by adding |wikt=no|b=no|v=no
to the template. Also, I note several constructive comments and suggestions on this talkpage from non-autoconfirmed editors; perhaps it is time the protection were reviewed. 86.41.61.203 (talk) 00:56, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
In the opening paragraph, the link to Progressive Party (United States, 1912) is rather odd; as it is part of the name, it would be best to incorporate "Progressive" into the link, like so: Progressive ("Bull Moose") Party of 1912. 86.41.61.203 (talk) 01:03, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
Per WP:LINKFARM, I'm moving the extraordinarily numerous external links here for review and possible integration as citations:
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