[neverdem]

Teddy Roosevelt

[ZULU]

Teddy Roosevelt was great.

He and Ronald Reagan were the only truly great presidents of the 20th century.

[noobiangod]

In fact, a law enforcement agency request for ATF to trace the ownership of a firearm - from manufacturer to distributor to retailer to buyer - does not necessarily indicate that the firearm was used in the commission of a crime or even that it was illegally possessed.

That statement is absolutely true. I know a police officer that had a trace run on his first duty weapon, a Beretta 92F, just for nostalgia's sake. Just because a trace is run does not mean the gun was connected with any crime.

[bill1952]

Okay, you did make my usual 100 year cutoff by three years. 8^)

Christ, where are any politicians like him now?

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done 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 up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."