For instance, if a company is the only company that sells beef, then that company can charge as much as they want and pay workers as little as they want. Roosevelt became known as a "trustbuster" for breaking up these monopolies. He also made conservation a top priority during his administration. He created the United States Forest Service and established national forests, 51 federal bird reserves, four national game preserves, and five national parks during his time in office.
Roosevelt was a problem solver when other countries had disagreements. In fact in , he became the first U. He also continued to oversee construction of the Panama Canal, a waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans across Central America. Roosevelt served a second term, then left the White House in He attempted to regain the presidency in by running as a third-party candidate for the Progressive, or Bull Moose, Party.
During a campaign speech in Wisconsin , he was shot in the chest by a saloonkeeper who disagreed with his policies. While Roosevelt graduated from Harvard, he left law school at Columbia without receiving a degree.
Roosevelt had become focused on local politics and lost interest in a legal career. Roosevelt was blind in one eye after a boxing injury in the White House.
The President continued with his hobby of boxing well into his presidency. He suffered a detached retina in a bout in , and stopped fighting. He switched to jiu-jitsu instead. What is the deal with the Teddy Bear? While on a hunting trip as President, guides in Mississippi had arranged for Roosevelt to shoot an old bear they had tied to a tree. Roosevelt refused to do so, on sporting grounds. Even after he left office, Roosevelt continued to work for his ideals. The Progressive Party's New Nationalism in launched a drive for protective federal regulation that looked forward to the progressive movements of the s and the s.
Indeed, Roosevelt's progressive platform encompassed nearly every progressive ideal later enshrined in the New Deal of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Fair Deal of Harry S. Truman, the New Frontier of John F. Kennedy, and the Great Society of Lyndon B. In terms of presidential style, Roosevelt introduced "charisma" into the political equation. He had a strong rapport with the public and he understood how to use the media to shape public opinion. He was the first President whose election was based more on the individual than the political party.
When people voted Republican in , they were generally casting their vote for Roosevelt the man instead of for him as the standard-bearer of the Republican Party. The most popular President up to his time, Roosevelt used his enthusiasm to win votes, to shape issues, and to mold opinions. In the process, he changed the executive office forever. However, after his re-election in , President McKinley was assassinated. Out of this commitment grew a benchmark of his first term, the "Square Deal" — a domestic program that embraced reform of the American workplace, government regulation of industry and consumer protection, with the overall aim of helping all classes of people.
Roosevelt's charismatic personality and impassioned combination of pounding fists and emphatic rhetoric undoubtedly helped in pushing his agenda. In , Roosevelt walked his niece, Eleanor Roosevelt , down the aisle Theodore's brother, Elliott, had died in during the wedding ceremony for Eleanor and her fifth cousin once removed, Franklin D. Around the same time, believing that America needed to take its rightful place on the world stage, Roosevelt initiated a massive public relations effort.
Navy and created the "Great White Fleet," sending it on a world tour as a testament to U. He also helped expedite the completion of the Panama Canal by providing tacit approval of the Panama revolution with funds and a naval blockade preventing Columbian troops from landing in Panama. Roosevelt believed that if Japan had devastated Russia, it would lead to an imbalance of power in the Pacific, one that the United States would eventually have to realign, but at a disastrous cost.
Roosevelt's international stance was the impetus for the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, which claims the right to intervene in cases of wrongdoing by a Latin American or any other nation, though some critics assert that the doctrine designates the United States as the "policeman" of the western world.
While it is true Roosevelt supported desegregation and women's suffrage, his administration took an often passive, sometimes contradictory approach to improve civil rights. Roosevelt was also the first president to entertain an African American, Booker T. Washington , as a guest at the White House. However, the political backlash from the event was so severe that he never invited Washington back again.
The War Department Inspector General had investigated an incident in Brownsville, Texas, involving Black troops who had been accused of a shooting rampage that left one white person dead and another wounded. Roosevelt waited until after the November elections — after hundreds of thousands of Black people cast their votes for Republican candidates across the North — and then dismissed all Black soldiers from the service. None would receive their pensions. Roosevelt has also been deemed the country's first environmentalist president.
In , he signed the National Monuments Act, protecting sites like the Grand Canyon and preserving countless wildlife sanctuaries, national forests and federal game reserves. The presidential mansion officially became known as the White House when Roosevelt had the name emblazoned on his stationery. He hired the most illustrious architects of the time, McKim Mead and White, to renovate the decrepit mansion.
During his presidential term, the White House served as a lively playground for the Roosevelts' six children; due in no small part to the president's passion for sports and books, each room of the home was enlivened with activity, from crawl space to library.
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