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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... authority ... which [ it ] would possess and exercise if it were the sovereign of the territory . . . to the entire exclusion of the exercise by the Republic of Panama of any such sovereignty , power and authority . Bunau - Varilla and ...
... authority ... which [ it ] would possess and exercise if it were the sovereign of the territory . . . to the entire exclusion of the exercise by the Republic of Panama of any such sovereignty , power and authority . Bunau - Varilla and ...
Page 150
... authority over the railroads . There was no bet- ter topic on which to focus the Square Deal that the president had announced . In his message , sent to Congress on 6 December 1904 , Roosevelt requested that the ICC be given the power ...
... authority over the railroads . There was no bet- ter topic on which to focus the Square Deal that the president had announced . In his message , sent to Congress on 6 December 1904 , Roosevelt requested that the ICC be given the power ...
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... authority to fix a rate . Roosevelt believed that the commission should set a maximum rate to be charged in a disputed case . " It will speedily become impossible , " he maintained , " thus to favor any shipper save in altogether ...
... authority to fix a rate . Roosevelt believed that the commission should set a maximum rate to be charged in a disputed case . " It will speedily become impossible , " he maintained , " thus to favor any shipper save in altogether ...
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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