[molybdenum]

He once visited John Muir by climbing one of Yosemite's mountains, where Muir was a hermit, but was not a happy camper. JM was not impressed and had little to say. He preferred trees and animals to people. Sometimes I have that feeling LOL

[mlocher]

He preferred trees and animals to people.

Sounds like a "save the earth" and "save the whales" type of liberal to me.

[Kirkwood]

The word progressive had a totally different meaning back then. Like the word gay.

[I still care]

In my son’s Steck Vaughn geography book, the text picked Muir out as the person most typifying “America”.

One of the reasons I began homeschooling.

[Kirkwood]

Teddy liked the trees in order to make log cabins and liked animals so he could shoot them. Muir wasn’t into that. LOL.

[hosepipe]

TR signed into law the ability of the federal government to OWN LAND in the States.. and now the fed OWNS most of the Western United States.. and 3/4 of Alaska..

The federal gov't OWNING ANY LAND is obscene...

[Oshkalaboomboom]

The Roosevelt family did more to damage this country than the Kennedys could even dream of.

[Bokababe]

Teddy gave us one of my favorite quotes of all time:

It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; Who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”

President Theodore Roosevelt Speech at the Sorbonne April 23, 1910

[higgmeister]

Let me think now, first Teddy, then FDR, then Johnson, then Clinton and finally Obama.

Nope, Teddy was no hero. He was the first Progressive Socialist President. Theodore Roosevelt was the exemplar of our current Moderate Republicans, the anathema to today's GOP Conservatives.

[marron]

Its possible to admire TR as a human being, while complaining about the enormous land-holdings in federal hands.

I would like to see most BLM lands privatized, and most parks and national forests handed back to the states. Aside from specific bases and installations, the feds should not be in the business of owning large swaths of land.

There is very little federal land in Texas, and somehow they manage to find places to hunt there. With almost no federal land, there are still plenty of open spaces. They just happen to be private. You have to talk to the landowner if you want to go in there.

[papasmurf]

He wasn’t perfect, but...

“In addition to holding elective office as a New York State Assemblyman, Governor of New York, Vice President, and President, he was also a deputy sheriff in the Dakota Territory, Police Commissioner of New York City, U.S. Civil Service Commissioner, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and Colonel of the Rough Riders, all by the age of 42, at which time he became the youngest man ever to hold the office of President.”

Pooh on those who deride this great man.

[higgmeister]

Obama: Walking in the steps of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy

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President Obama just returned to a Northern Virginia university that helped launch him on his path to the White House. He stressed that his package would mean changes "starting this year."

The president cited Teddy Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Edward Kennedy as forebears who paved the way for the historic moment that could be just around the corner: passage of the biggest health care measure since the creation of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965.

I think this indicates conclusively that TR was no Conservative.