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0:02at the turn of the century this man
0:04spoke of strength of courage and honor
0:07and the entire nation was caught up by
0:09his Spirit the principles for which we
0:13stand are the principles of fair pray
0:17and a square deal for every man and
0:21every woman in the United States I wish
0:25to see you boys join the party and act
0:30in that body in the same way I'd expect
0:35any one of you to act in a football game
0:39in other words don't Flinch don't F and
0:44hit the line hard he carried a big stick
0:48but he seldom spoke softly his name
0:51Theodore Roosevelt and this is his
0:54biography
1:21[Music]
1:25the
1:31I'm Mike Wallace this is biography our
1:34story Theodore
1:36Roosevelt Teddy Roosevelt was a dynamic
1:38leader he was the colonel who led the
1:41charge up San Juan Hill in the Spanish
1:43American war he was the president they
1:45called the trustbuster he was the
1:48Statesman who told his country to speak
1:50softly and carry a big
1:52stick the night he died a close friend
1:55remarked death had to catch him asleep
1:57or if Roosevelt had been awake there
1:59would have been a
2:00fight that's the kind of man he
2:04was Theodore Roosevelt the 26th
2:08president of the United States he was a
2:11man of Boundless Energy of deep
2:13conviction and his personal magnetism
2:16was such that a rival politician
2:18complained when he is in the
2:19neighborhood the public can no more turn
2:21away than a small boy can turn from a
2:23circus parade to the American people he
2:26was a symbol of strength and vitality
2:30yet Theodore Roosevelt began Life as a
2:32weak and sickly
2:39child New York City
2:421863 this handsome townhouse is
2:45virtually a present to 5-year-old Teddy
2:48roselt crippled by asthma he wistfully
2:51admires healthy children the free the
2:54active and most of all the
2:57strong young Teddy is thrilled by stor
3:00is of the Civil War raging in the South
3:02to be a soldier he thinks is to be a
3:05real
3:06man Teddy's mother a gentle cultivated
3:09woman Ador her delicate son but Theodore
3:12Roosevelt senior a prominent lawyer is
3:14determined that his son will not be
3:16coddled you must make your body he tells
3:19Teddy it is hard drudgery but I know you
3:22will do
3:23it by the time he enters Harvard
3:25University to study law he is a vigorous
3:28young man he is come to love sports and
3:31the rugged outdoor Life by Joe he writes
3:35I enjoy every moment I
3:37live and he especially enjoys the
3:40company of Alice Lee a beautiful Boston
3:43debutant a few months after Teddy's
3:45graduation from Harvard he and Alice are
3:49married and the young couple's future
3:51does seem assured they have social
3:53position and a trust fund brings Teddy a
3:56regular income but one year later he
3:59shocks his aristocratic friends and
4:01relatives by taking up an ungentlemanly
4:03career Teddy becomes a politician he is
4:06elected as a republican to the New York
4:08State
4:09Legislature and astonishes his
4:11colleagues by attacking the ruling
4:13political machine tamy Hall but then
4:17Teddy's mother dies of typhoid fever and
4:20only 4 hours later his wife dies in
4:23childb
4:24[Music]
4:26birth Teddy seeks Escape he buys a ranch
4:30in North Dakota and throws himself into
4:32the hard life of a
4:35cowand here he goes out of his way to
4:37court discomfort and danger and in time
4:40he realizes a Boyhood
4:43dream he becomes a hardened
4:48Adventurer he returns East and marries
4:51again in 1886 his bride is Edith Carol a
4:55friend since
4:57childhood resuming his career in
4:59politics he receives a Washington
5:00appointment as civil service
5:02commissioner in Washington
5:04DC his startling aggressiveness in this
5:07minor position makes him the talk of
5:10Washington after a few years Teddy moves
5:13to another job that calls for a
5:15crusader as police commissioner of New
5:18York City he enthusiastically fights
5:20corruption but he's impatient and he
5:22wants an even bigger
5:24challenge in 1897 he wins a post as
5:28assistant Secretary of the Navy in
5:29president McKinley's new
5:32Administration then February 15th 1898
5:36the battleship main blows up in Havana
5:39Harbor and a wave of indignation against
5:41Spain sweeps the nation McKinley
5:44declares
5:46war Teddy seizes the opportunity to
5:48become a soldier he organizes a
5:51volunteer regiment bringing together cow
5:54hands and gamblers from the west and
5:56Polo playing Harvard boys from the East
5:59they call themselves Roosevelt's Rough
6:03Riders they are amateur soldiers but
6:06their enthusiasm runs
6:09high and newly commissioned Lieutenant
6:12Colonel Theodore Roosevelt is the most
6:14enthusiastic of
6:17all Teddy slashes through red tape to
6:20get his men to Cuba he's afraid that the
6:22war will end before he can see
6:25action finally on July 1st 1898 Teddy
6:29get his chance at the head of his troops
6:31he leads a charge up San Juan Hill I
6:34waved my hat he recalls and up the hill
6:37we
6:52went Teddy and his Rough Riders emerge
6:54as the most colorful Heroes of the
6:57war his Fame and popular he catapult him
7:00into a race for governor of New York
7:03Teddy the Rough Rider is presented to
7:05the voters as the man who can clean up
7:07the Scandal ridden state
7:09housee after a hard campaign he is
7:14elected he is 42 but still almost
7:17boyishly
7:20vigorous Teddy loves his role as head of
7:22a bustling energetic family he's a
7:25wonderful father warm-hearted and full
7:27of fun he boasts I I have the happiest
7:30home life of any man I have ever
7:34known here he can momentarily forget the
7:36intrigues of fellow Republicans who are
7:39already looking for a way to ease him
7:41out of office for them he is too much of
7:44a
7:46rebel the party bosses make their move
7:49at the Republican convention in
7:511900 they nominate Teddy for an
7:53impressive but traditionally powerless
7:57position against his will t runs for
8:00vice president on the McKinley
8:04ticket the Republicans easily win the
8:06election and Teddy is put away on the
8:08back shelf of the vice
8:12presidency but one of Teddy's most
8:14bitter opponents political boss Mark
8:16Hannah is worried now he complains there
8:19is only one light between this madman
8:22and the White
8:24House
8:2619001 on September 6 president McKinley
8:29attends the Pan-American Exposition in
8:33Buffalo an assassin
8:38strike a week later President William
8:41McKinley is
8:43dead Theodore Rosevelt the man who was
8:46made vice president to thwart his
8:48political career now takes over the
8:51nation's highest
8:54office at first Teddy is dazed by his
8:57new position he pledges to go slow and
9:00continue McKinley's conservative
9:02policies some newspapers hail Teddy's
9:05apparent change of heart he is an
9:07entirely different man today one reports
9:10hopefully then in May of
9:1319002 147,000 miners strike in eastern
9:17Pennsylvania the mine operators refuse
9:19even to negotiate with the workers they
9:21are out to break the union the strike
9:24drags on for 6
9:26months with winter coming on school and
9:29hospitals are without heat the cold
9:31shortage creates a National
9:34Emergency Teddy forgets his promise of
9:37moderation he shocks the conservatives
9:39by threatening to send the Army in to
9:41operate the mine and the strike is
9:45settled it is the first time a president
9:48has personally interfered to break a
9:50deadlock between capital and
9:54labor
9:5519004 an election year and a time of
9:58Crisis for Teddy
10:00Rosevelt to be reelected Teddy must go
10:02directly to the
10:04people Teddy makes sure that his message
10:06reaches every interested voter he tours
10:09the country making an exhausting
10:11schedule of
10:13speeches The Prestige of the United
10:15State is a major issue Americans are
10:18proud of their growing strength but
10:19Teddy warns them that the nation is
10:21still considered a minor world power we
10:24are a great people he says and we must
10:27play a great part in the world
10:29all we can decide is whether we shall
10:31play it well or
10:33ill but on the eve of election Teddy
10:36feels that he has failed to win popular
10:38support he fears that the public may not
10:41be ready for his bold
10:43policies the huge crowds which have
10:46turned out to hear his fighting speeches
10:48seem more Curious than inspired and
10:51Teddy Roosevelt is convinced that the
10:53American people will consign him to
10:55political Oblivion
11:02[Music]
11:05Washington DC
11:0619005 a large and enthusiastic crowd
11:10gathers to cheer Teddy Rosevelt he has
11:12been returned to office by a landslide
11:15vote I had no conception that such a
11:17thing was possible he says at last I am
11:20no longer a political
11:22accident full of assurance Rosevelt
11:25throws the nation into the arena of
11:26international
11:28politics kedy boldly offers himself as a
11:31mediator in the Russo Japanese
11:34war responding to his invitation
11:36diplomats from both countries meet at
11:38Portsmouth New Hampshire in August of
11:41195 and at this conference arranged by
11:44Roosevelt they quickly reach agreement
11:47his new Administration has its first
11:49resounding Triumph on the international
11:53scene now Teddy decides on a bold move
11:56to demonstrate the United States
11:58military
12:01capability he orders 16 American
12:04warships to cirle the globe on what he
12:06calls a Goodwill
12:08Cruise the Great White Fleet visits
12:11various major foreign
12:13ports and leaves a lasting impression of
12:15America's power to dominate the high
12:19seas but the United States has only one
12:22Fleet and two great coastlines to defend
12:26to ensure the safety of his country
12:28Teddy is determined to realize a dream
12:30which has fascinated Engineers the
12:34centuries to link the Atlantic and
12:36Pacific Oceans by a canal across the
12:38narrow ismiss of
12:41Panama in the 1880s a French company had
12:44attempted the project but disease and
12:46Engineering difficulties brought
12:48bankruptcy and total
12:51failure the United States government is
12:54now ready to try where the French had
12:57failed but the Latin American nation of
12:59Colombia which controls Panama will not
13:01agree to sell the needed land at a price
13:04Teddy Roosevelt considers
13:08reasonable suddenly a revolution erupts
13:11in Panama
13:16City as the fighting rages American
13:19warships appear off the coast of Panama
13:21and they leave only after the Colombian
13:24government has been
13:26overthrown within 10 days Teddy has
13:29purchased from the new Colombian
13:30government a 6mile wide strip of land
13:33Bridging the isness of Panama Teddy
13:37admits that he has used unusual tactics
13:39to get the canal
13:41underway if i' followed conventional
13:43methods he explains Congress would still
13:45be debating now while the debate Goes On
13:49the Canal does
13:51also the greatest obstacle is disease a
13:55giant sanitation project is necessary
13:57before Construction can
14:00continue the Panama Canal is the biggest
14:03costliest and most difficult Public
14:05Works project the country has ever
14:17attempt but finally success the Mariners
14:22map of the world is drastically alter
14:25New York has brought 8,000 sea miles
14:28closer to San
14:30Francisco the Panama Canal is held as a
14:33monument to American Technical genius
14:37and to the determination of Teddy
14:44Rosell in Washington Teddy continues to
14:47carry on his unrelenting battle against
14:49the
14:52trusts monopolies in railroads steel
14:55sugar and other basic Industries have
14:57gained colossal economic power power and
15:00they are all but free of
15:02Regulation instead they often control
15:04the government the United States Senate
15:07is even called the millionaires
15:09Club Teddy's attack on the trusts is
15:12direct and Powerful his big stick policy
15:16is a combination of public outrage court
15:18rulings and the president's withering
15:21scorn Court battles drag on for years
15:24but never again will the presidency be
15:26subject to the will of the Tycoon
15:31at the end of his ter in Office teddy
15:33feels bound to honor a longstanding
15:35pledge not to run again he is begged to
15:38accept the nomination but he firmly
15:40refuses instead Teddy handpicks his
15:43successor William Howard Taff who has
15:46been Secretary of War in the Rosevelt
15:49cabinet Taff carries the election with
15:52ease but he is considered little more
15:54than Teddy Roosevelt's obedient Shadow
15:57when he takes office
15:59Teddy is determined to leave political
16:01Warriors behind and to
16:04relax so he sails for Africa on an
16:06extended
16:08Safari for 11 months Teddy wanders in
16:11the Wilds engrossed in nature study and
16:14hunting for long periods he's content in
16:17the African Wilderness facing no
16:19diplomatic problem greater than deciding
16:21who gets the first shot at a
16:24lion on his way home Teddy is welcomed
16:27in Europe with the dignity and ceremon
16:29due the leader of a major
16:31Nation to most Europeans he is still the
16:34president of the United
16:39States He is showered With
16:43Honor I feel he says that if I met
16:46another king I should bite
16:50him in Norway he accepts the Nobel Peace
16:54Prize for his role in ending the Russo
16:56Japanese war
17:03June 10th 1910 Teddy arrives in New York
17:07City his friends and admirers welcome
17:09him home with noisy enthusiasm but TFT
17:13is conspicuously
17:15absent for a Time Teddy rests in
17:18seclusion at home at Sagamore Hill but
17:21inevitably he is drawn back into
17:23politics tap's enemies come to him from
17:26all over the nation daily he hears
17:29reports that ta is becoming a
17:31conservative president but he is not
17:33carrying on the Roosevelt
17:36tradition during the country Teddy
17:39accuses Taft of being a weak president
17:41of being soft on big business soon it is
17:45clear that he and Taft will contend for
17:48the nomination in
17:511912 Taft replies to the challenge I do
17:55not want to fight Teddy Rosell he tells
17:57the public but sometimes s a man in a
17:59corner fights and I am going to
18:03fight the 1912 Republican convention
18:06brings The Showdown after a Bitner
18:09struggle Taft wins the nomination and
18:12the support of conservative
18:13Republicans Teddy walks out taking the
18:16liberal faction with him in the heat of
18:18anger and disappointment he makes a
18:20faithful decision he will run in the
18:23election as an independent I am as fit
18:26as a bull moose Teddy says early in the
18:28campaign
18:29and the B moose becomes the symbol of
18:31his Renegade
18:33Party Teddy accuses Taft of giving up
18:36national sovereignty and of going to any
18:39lengths to prevent conflict with other
18:42nations Taff feels he is being accused
18:44simply of not being Teddy roselt and in
18:47the end the only man who benefits by the
18:50contest is the Democratic candidate
18:53woodro
18:54Wilson the bulm party is disbanded Teddy
18:59turns back to his private life tired and
19:02embittered by failure he has always
19:04drawn strength from living close to
19:06Nature and now he again becomes
19:08engrossed in the study of Wildlife and
19:11conservation on field trips he's happy
19:13to be left to
19:18himself despite his political setbacks
19:21Teddy remains a popular hero he's a
19:24leader in the Boy Scout movement and an
19:26avid Outdoorsman he Delights the public
19:29with his enthusiasm for exercise and
19:31good hard work more than any other
19:34Statesman of his time he is admired by
19:36the average American
19:48citizen in 1913 Teddy travels to South
19:52America from Brazilian officials he
19:54hears of an unexplored jungle stream
19:57called the river of doubt
19:59this has the sound of
20:01Adventure despite warnings that this is
20:03a venture for younger men he leaves an
20:06expedition to chart the desolate
20:08territory Teddy drives himself hard
20:11elated at the prospect of challenging
20:13the Wilderness once more
20:29but he emerges from the jungle exhausted
20:32and with a seriously injured
20:34leg I had to go he sadly explains it was
20:39my last chance to be a
20:43boy 1916 war is Raging in Europe the
20:48nation is caught up in a violent
20:50controversy should the United States Aid
20:52England or remain neutral as long as
20:54possible President Wilson reelected by a
20:57slim margin leads for the American
20:59people to remain
21:01impartial Teddy Rosevelt dives into the
21:04controversy he's convinced that wison is
21:06making a tragic error the events soon
21:09prove him right finally on April 6th
21:131917 Wilson has no choice he signs
21:17America's declaration of
21:19war it has come at last for a year Teddy
21:23has been hammering at American
21:25unpreparedness now finally he can do
21:27something
21:29he goes to Wilson and asks for a combat
21:31assignment in France but the president's
21:34answer is firm he will not allow Teddy
21:36Rosevelt to fight Teddy is humiliated
21:39and Furious he's convinced that Wilson
21:43has turned him down for political
21:47reason but Teddy Rosevelt can't stay
21:49away from the Great Adventure for long
21:52he begins his own kind of campaign a
21:54strenuous speaking tour covering the
21:56nation in support of the war
22:00[Music]
22:02he's a familiar visitor in the training
22:05camp he loves to spend his time with
22:08soldiers and he's always ready to recall
22:10a glorious Victory long ago at San Juan
22:19Hill he's deeply proud that his four
22:21sons are fighting in
22:25France then in July 1918 a few months
22:29before the end of the war Teddy's
22:31youngest son Quon flies an a sorty over
22:34the German
22:36line his claim does not return and the
22:39next day he is reported killed in
22:44action when the doughbys come home a
22:47pale and shaken Theodore Roosevelt is
22:49there to greet them he composes a moving
22:52epap of Quenton only those are fit to
22:56live who do not fear to die both life
23:00and death he writes are part of the same
23:04Great
23:06Adventure Teddy Roosevelt's Great
23:08Adventure is almost over he spends most
23:11of his time at Sagamore
23:13hill now the old energy and exuberance
23:16have
23:18gone shortly before the end he says to
23:20his wife I wonder if you will ever know
23:23how much I love Sagamore Hill and then
23:28in the early morning of January 6th
23:311919 Theodore Roosevelt dies in his
23:39sleep Theodore Roosevelt's death brings
23:42worldwide expressions of
23:45grief but perhaps his finest epap was
23:48spoken by a distant relative Franklin
23:51Delano
23:54Rosevelt we know and the nation know
23:59yes the world
24:02knows that Theodore Roosevelt was a
24:04great Patriot and a great
24:16Soul Theodore Roosevelt wasn't the kind
24:19of man or the kind of politician who
24:21played it safe time and again he
24:23jeopardized his political career for the
24:25sake of his principles and he often paid
24:28dearly for it but he had a personal
24:31philosophy about this it is better to
24:33DARE Mighty things and fail he said than
24:37to live in a gray Twilight where there
24:39is neither Victory nor
24:42defeat Mike Wallace for biography
24:58oh
25:24[Applause]

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