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October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919
 * **Theodore Roosevelt:**

|| **1901-1909** - His term in office. ||  || “There are nearly thirty thousand troops here now, besides the sailors from the war-ships in the bay. At night the corridors and piazzas are thronged with officers of the Army and Navy; the older ones fought in the great Civil War, a third of a century ago, and now they are all going to Cuba to war against the Spaniards. Most of them are in blue, but our rough-riders are in brown. Our camp is on a great flat, on sandy soil without a tree, though round about are pines and palmettos. It is very hot, indeed, but there are no mosquitoes” (14). || Theodore was the secrtary of the Nevy. He was on the ship during the whole war.He helped the crew out a lot and many people looked up to him. ||  “On the other hand, if I should now go to war and have a brigade as I had my regiment before Santiago, I should take any chance that was necessary; because it would be worthwhile. In other words, I want to make the risk to a certain accident commensurate with the object gained ” (67). || Theodore has been put in a situation that might send him to war. He knows the way the troops will act and knows there is a reson for this. He knowsa the actions he takes there will be somethings lost, but he knows there will also be things gained. || “I feel on the other hand that I ought to give you my best advice, and yet on the other hand I do not wish to seem to constrain you against your wishes. If you have definitely made up your mind that you have overmastering desire to be in the Navy and the Army, and that such a career is the one in which you will take a really heart-felt interest – far more than any other – and that your greatest chance for happiness and usefulness will lie in the doing this one work to which yourself especially drawn – why, under such circumstance, I have out little to say. But I am not satisfied that this is really your feeling” (84). || Theodore Roosvelt, being the secretary of the Navy, he has experience with this. He does not want his son in this situation and does not want him to go through what he went through. he has to support his son, but he knows the danger it puts him in. || “Ted, I have had an enormous number of unpleasant things that I have begun to have them now” (136). ||  Throughout his life, ha has always had it rough. from his asthma to toher things, Theodore has always been the outcast. He wants his son to know not to let things get you down and to let them lift you up. || “There were about fifty enlisted men together with the captain and myself. I was introduced as ‘comrade and shipmate Theodore Roosevelt, president of the United States’” (191). || At the time of the enlisted men, Theodore was the president and the secretary of the Navy. He played big roles throughtout this war. || “I have just had to give him and three of his associates a dressing down – one of which being Charlie Taft” (225). || Charlie Taft was also a Repulican. He was dressed down by Roosvelt during the war. Roosevelt forced them into many situations. || WORKS CITED <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">media type="youtube" key="9USdXO_upok" height="161" width="163" || * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">He was born in New York in 1858.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Theodore Roosevelt was elected the 26th president of the United States. He was the youngest president that had been elected so far. He began his term when William McKinley was assassinated. His term in office was from September 14th, 1901 to March 4th, 1909.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Theodore Roosevelt was a Republican.
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Letters of Theodore Roosevelt E-Period