Theodore Roosevelt: Twenty-sixth President of the United States : a Typical AmericanAmerican citizen Company, 1901 - 413 pages |
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Page 17
... demands immediate army movement . If delayed , city will be defended more strongly by guns taken from fleet . " It was in the quiet darkness of night that an officer of General Shafter's staff came to my tent with orders from Washington ...
... demands immediate army movement . If delayed , city will be defended more strongly by guns taken from fleet . " It was in the quiet darkness of night that an officer of General Shafter's staff came to my tent with orders from Washington ...
Page 43
... demand for war that was irre- sistible . The fiery spirit of Roosevelt led him at once to resign his office and seek active duty in the field . Wisely selecting for his assistant an old friend , Dr. Wood , who was a military man , he ...
... demand for war that was irre- sistible . The fiery spirit of Roosevelt led him at once to resign his office and seek active duty in the field . Wisely selecting for his assistant an old friend , Dr. Wood , who was a military man , he ...
Page 44
... demand for justice , the same comradeship that have distinguished him from childhood . He ate and slept with his men , and when the Government failed to furnish supplies at Santiago he had money cabled him and fed his half - starved ...
... demand for justice , the same comradeship that have distinguished him from childhood . He ate and slept with his men , and when the Government failed to furnish supplies at Santiago he had money cabled him and fed his half - starved ...
Page 70
... demands upon his talent or his fortune than he was pleased to bestow . To most young men in Mr. Roosevelt's situa- tion , a life of ease and pleasure would have seemed the only one at all consistent with his inherited wealth and mental ...
... demands upon his talent or his fortune than he was pleased to bestow . To most young men in Mr. Roosevelt's situa- tion , a life of ease and pleasure would have seemed the only one at all consistent with his inherited wealth and mental ...
Page 104
... far West , there was no blot on his partisan escutcheon . And when the summer of 1886 brought the demand for a can- didate for the mayoral chair in the city of New York , his was the one name used to conjure 104 THEODORE ROOSEVELT .
... far West , there was no blot on his partisan escutcheon . And when the summer of 1886 brought the demand for a can- didate for the mayoral chair in the city of New York , his was the one name used to conjure 104 THEODORE ROOSEVELT .
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