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Roosevelt attended the [Edward VII’s] funeral as President Taft’s special emissary; in the process he upstaged the deceased. Everyone wanted to see the former president, including (the new) King George and Queen Mary, Kaiser Wilhelm (again)...Andrew Carnegie (who came to critique the Nobel speech), and a host of others. One person Roosevelt avoided was Winston Churchill, whom he considered a shady self-promoter.
— Nov 16, 2024 10:42AM
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Theodore Roosevelt wrote Eleanor Alexander, his son betrothed, when he was away in East Africa, completing the last leg of his hunting safari:
“There is nothing in the world that equals the happiness that comes to lovers who remain lovers all through their wedded lives, and who are not only devoted to each other, but wise and forbearing and gentle, as well.”
— Nov 16, 2024 10:32AM
“There is nothing in the world that equals the happiness that comes to lovers who remain lovers all through their wedded lives, and who are not only devoted to each other, but wise and forbearing and gentle, as well.”
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After Alice’s death, he [Theodore Roosevelt] vowed never to love again, to remain true to her memory, to hold the love he had shared with her and keep it pure and unsullied by other loves. Literature holds no more romantic character than the hero who cherishes the thought of his departed love until he is reunited with her after his own death. It was a role that appealed enormously to Roosevelt.
— Nov 10, 2024 08:19AM
