The Presidency of Theodore RooseveltUniversity Press of Kansas, 1991 - 355 pages Theodore Roosevelt was hearty, frank, freindly, and bold - a president so popular that many Americans believed they knew him personally. Through the force of his personality and excitement of his adventuring, he wove the presidency into the fabric of daily life as no other president had done. Nearly a century later he is remembered as the most colourful chief executive. |
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Page 58
... gave Filipino products a reduction of 25 percent below the rates of the Dingley Tariff . Friends of the Philippines , such as Taft , had hoped for more concessions , but again the Republican protectionists would do no more . To solve ...
... gave Filipino products a reduction of 25 percent below the rates of the Dingley Tariff . Friends of the Philippines , such as Taft , had hoped for more concessions , but again the Republican protectionists would do no more . To solve ...
Page 167
... gave the Agricul- ture Department the power to oversee the conditions in the packing houses themselves . The cost would be borne through a fee that the packers would pay for each animal processed . Beveridge proudly told Albert Shaw ...
... gave the Agricul- ture Department the power to oversee the conditions in the packing houses themselves . The cost would be borne through a fee that the packers would pay for each animal processed . Beveridge proudly told Albert Shaw ...
Page 256
... gave little credence to these musings . His policy was one of trying to secure British cooperation in any possible confrontation with Japan . In the process , Roosevelt's doubts about trusting the kaiser inten- sified . Late in 1907 the ...
... gave little credence to these musings . His policy was one of trying to secure British cooperation in any possible confrontation with Japan . In the process , Roosevelt's doubts about trusting the kaiser inten- sified . Late in 1907 the ...
Contents
Keeping the Left Center Together | 225 |
We Were at Absolute Peace | 251 |
There Is No One Like Theodore | 271 |
Copyright | |
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