"It takes more than one bullet to kill a Bull Moose!"
-Teddy Roosevelt, after being shot in the chest by an assassin.
The Library of Congress has online audio and video of Teddy Roosevelt. He didn't sound the way I thought he would, after a lifetime of hearing impersonators shout "Bully!" I loved the video of him rip-snorting around with the Rough Riders.
Teddy is my very favorite president. He was truly one of a kind.
He wasn't Mark Twain's favorite. Twain's description still makes me laugh, though, probably because there's no such thing as an uninteresting Twain quote:
"Mr. Roosevelt is the Tom Sawyer of the political world of the twentieth century; always showing off; always hunting for a chance to show off; in his frenzied imagination the Great Republic is a vast Barnum circus with him for a clown and the whole world for audience; he would go to Halifax for half a chance to show off and he would go to hell for a whole one."
-Mark Twain, in "Eruption".
Speaking of show-offs, Mark Twain attended his only daughter's wedding wearing a college cap and gown. It just couldn't be someone else's day. I love him, but I'm glad he wasn't my dad.
Go, Teddy!
Audio of TR... that is too cool!
Posted by: Russ at June 19, 2004 12:24 AMMr. Cracker jumped up from couch duties to go listen. I don't know why, but I was expected a more Midwestern accent. No reason to, he wasn't from the Midwest, after all.
Posted by: Donnah at June 19, 2004 09:06 AMTom Berenger played TR in "Rough Riders", which was one of Ted Turners cable movies. Listening to Teddy's voice now, it seems that Berenger did a pretty good portrayal.
And as far as TR being one of a kind, you can't beat "Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!".
Thanks, Dave. I'm gonna have to rent me that one.
Posted by: Donnah at June 20, 2004 07:54 PM