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Favorite President & Why?
16 Jul 2010 23:28 #20
by Wayne Harrison
Replied by Wayne Harrison on topic Favorite President & Why?
VL obviously missed class when they were studying Theodore Roosevelt.
I'd agree with major bean. Teddy Roosevelt. He was an all around man's man... living the Dakoa Territory when he was younger.. becoming a deputy sheriff and hunting down outlaws.. He was an avid hunter all his life.
He was a war hero and a co-founder of the Boone and Crockett (hunting) Club. As president, he established the Bureau of Reclamation and the Bureau of Forestry. Roosevelt was far sighted enough to set aside millions of acres of land in the West and preserve it for future generations. He established the Grand Canyon National Monument in Arizona, the 11th such national monument created under his presidency. He also added to Yosemite National Park.
The West would not be what it is today without his vision of preservation for future Americans.
He was the guiding force behind building the Panama Canal.
After he was no longer president he went to Africa to gather specimens for the Smithsonian Museum.
"The man should have youth and strength who seeks adventure in the wide, waste spaces of the earth, in the marshes, and among the vast mountain masses, in the northern forests, amid the steaming jungles of the tropics, or on the desert of sand or of snow. He must long greatly for the lonely winds that blow across the wilderness, and for sunrise and sunset over the rim of the empty world." -- Theodore Roosevelt
I'd agree with major bean. Teddy Roosevelt. He was an all around man's man... living the Dakoa Territory when he was younger.. becoming a deputy sheriff and hunting down outlaws.. He was an avid hunter all his life.
He was a war hero and a co-founder of the Boone and Crockett (hunting) Club. As president, he established the Bureau of Reclamation and the Bureau of Forestry. Roosevelt was far sighted enough to set aside millions of acres of land in the West and preserve it for future generations. He established the Grand Canyon National Monument in Arizona, the 11th such national monument created under his presidency. He also added to Yosemite National Park.
The West would not be what it is today without his vision of preservation for future Americans.
He was the guiding force behind building the Panama Canal.
After he was no longer president he went to Africa to gather specimens for the Smithsonian Museum.
"The man should have youth and strength who seeks adventure in the wide, waste spaces of the earth, in the marshes, and among the vast mountain masses, in the northern forests, amid the steaming jungles of the tropics, or on the desert of sand or of snow. He must long greatly for the lonely winds that blow across the wilderness, and for sunrise and sunset over the rim of the empty world." -- Theodore Roosevelt
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