President Theodore Roosevelt: the focus of presentation at North Berrien Historical Museum, Marc
- Tri-City Record
- Mar 16, 2023
- 1 min read
A contemporary of Theodore Roosevelt called him “a steam engine in trousers.” Roosevelt lived life to the fullest and sometimes on the edge. As a precocious youngster, he read grown-up books and exhibited dead animals in his home’s “natural history museum.” As an adult, this Harvard graduate was also a cowboy, an explorer, a conservationist, an author and intellectual, and a soldier who glorified war. As the 26th President of the United States (1901-1909), he tried to reign in Big Business through government regulations. But the former president revealed a darker side when the United States entered World War I in 1917.
