
Theodore Roosevelt
Lectures in History
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Theodore Rosevelt, the President of the United States
Roosevelt was born october of 18 58 in new york city. He is very much a child of the civil war, who was only a, you know, five years old at the time. His hobbies and passions were ornithology, looking for birds, writing down the kind of birds that he saw,. as well as rowing and hunting, and pretty much anything you could do outdoors. When he was 18, he went off to harvard where he studied history before there were majors. And he married a local girl from boston, alice lee Wotte; she would later become his first lady. We've been reading the novel 'Gilded Age'
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