Topic: Theodore Roosevelt
US President Barack Obama said Tuesday the "gaping inequality" facing the middle class was the "defining issue of our time" in a passionate outline of his 2012 reelection message.Obama traveled to Kansas in a bid to commandeer the aura of barnstorming president ...
Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument in Hawaii is one of the largest marine protected areas ever created. Established by the Bush administration as a joint federal-state project, Papahanaumokuakea is not technically a wildlife sanctuary, but is home to a considerable number of threatened ...
Many times?throughout the history of the United States, the Republicans can be seen as the ones fighting for the common man, the poor and the underprivileged. I would argue that, former congressman Paul Norton ?Pete? McClosky Jr. did more for the environment ...
Ever notice when the media tries to slip something into our thought processes? For example, the media has been increasingly talking about "Progressive" Democrats as if they are just that, people interested in implementing positive changes to our government. A diverse set ...
A two-party system is a form of government in which two dominant parties hold offices on every level of politics, from regional to national. As in the U.S. and many other countries, governments run by a two-party system often allow for third-party ...
Mob banker? Serial liar? Insults abound in 2010 campaignName-calling is a winner this campaign season. By a landslide.In Illinois, dueling political wordsmiths long ago cast the Senate race as a choice between a "mob banker" and a "serial liar."The rivals are more ...
Lewis L. Gould received his PhD from Yale in 1966 and the following year became an assistant professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin where he taught for thirty-one years. The 1912 Campaign Speeches of Theodore Roosevelt, which is ...
March 6, 1910, New York City), U.S. representative and senator from New York, who unwillingly furthered the rise to the U.S. presidency of Theodore Roosevelt (whom he called "a perfect bull in a china shop").. ) Meanwhile, Conkling retired from politics, and ...
Roosevelt's burgeoning crusade for more active government reflected his loss of faith in William Howard Taft, whom the former Rough Rider had chosen as his successor. " To enact his program, Roosevelt signaled that he would accept another term as president and ...