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When Theodore Roosevelt was born
his parents named him Theodore after his father. When Theodore
(also known as Teddy) was a kid he was always too sick to go
to school. So he didn't get much of an education. So they got
him a tutor, his Aunt Annie. The teddy bear is named after Theodore.Theodore Roosevelt was born on
October 27, 1858 in New York City. When he was a kid, he liked
to go duck hunting, and was always in the gymnasium, because
his father told him, "You have the mind, but not the body."
He also liked to have his picture taken.Whenever Teddy was too sick to
go to school, his Aunt Annie would tutor him at his bedside.Theodore got his name "teddy"
from his father as a childhood nickname.Teddy was into natural history
and his parents wanted him to attend Harvard University.In 1900 he was running for president
against William Howard Taft and had well over 270 electoral votes.
In 1940 he won with 336 electoral votes. Teddy lost one election
to Woodrow Wilson. The results were Wilson: 425, Roosevelt: 88,
Taft: 8 in 1912 to decide the next president.While running for president he
was with the Navy. While in office Teddy's promises were to lower
taxes, and if children were failing, have them do their own level
of work.Teddy was the first President
to visit foreign countries while in office, and also to set a
record for the most hands shaken with the most people in one
night.Teddy would box, but he stopped
when he got a bad blow in the left eye. So he started to wrestle.
He could take Taft down. He would also go hunting with his 19
year old son. One time Kermit shot a 327 lb. buffalo, but it
would not die so Teddy shot it and it died. The head is still
on the wall at the library in Sagamore to this day.He had his own private tutor at
the age of fifteen for six subjects. They were his best subjects.During the summer he would go
swimming, hiking, hunting, running and horseback riding.When Teddy was in college some
of his classmates said they had never seen such a hard working
man.In 1885, Teddy proposed to Edith
Crow. Edith was Teddy's second wife. Thomas Platt did not want Teddy to be a senator. So when Garro Harbart died in 1889, he suggested he should run for President. In 1900, he ended up winning 364-112 electoral votes. He ran with President McKinley. Teddy refused to vote for himself. His motto was "Speak softly
and carry a big stick".Thanks to the boxing, wrestling,
buffalo hunting, President Theodore Roosevelt would probably
be different until another great President comes along and changes
things.Teddy died in 1919 from a blood
clot clogging an artery leading to his heart.That was my report on Theodore
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