Theodore Roosevelt

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Determining a "Just War" in 2009, 1906, and 412 AD

Lapham's Quarterly | Posted 12.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Theodore Roosevelt, Nobel Peace Prize, Barack Obama, Obama Peace Prize, History, St. Augustine, Rome, Obama Nobel Peace Prize Speech, War, Politics News

In December of 1906, Roosevelt was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and he made these remarks to Congress in that same month.

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Obama's Nobel More Deserved Than Teddy Roosevelt's?

James Bradley | Posted 12.10.2009 | Books

Theodore Roosevelt won the Peace Prize for bringing the Russians and Japanese to the negotiating table to end the bloody Russo-Japanese War. In fact, Roosevelt did little to abet peace.

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The Nobel Peace Prize: Calling a Truce, at Least for a Day

Wayne Trujillo | Posted 10.09.2009 | Denver

Read More: Jimmy Carter, Nobel Peace Prize, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Barack Obama, Nobel Committee, Obama Nobel, Denver News

President Barack Obama. The Nobel Peace Prize. Wow. Already? After determining that we are still in 2009 and I hadn't pulled a Rip Van Winkle, I then wondered if I was reading the title correctly.

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Barack Obama, Nobel Laureate; First the Reward, Now the Risk

Mike Hegedus | Posted 10.09.2009 | World

Read More: Gdansk, Theodore Roosevelt, Lech Walesa, Euro Dollar, Major League Baseball, Woodrow Wilson, George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Nobel Peace Prize, Mvp, Congo, Patrice Lamuba, Wal-Mart, Barack Obama, Japan, World News

Barack Obama won the Nobel Prize because the world outside our own borders hopes, wants, and prays for his success internationally. And that's a good thing, a very good thing.

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Barack Obama, Nobel Peace Laureate: Whatever Happened to Awarding for Deeds Actually Done?

Michael Russnow | Posted 10.09.2009 | World

It is enormously premature for Obama to be getting this great tribute, which to a certain extent cheapens the prior recipients and the work all of them performed over so many years.

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Vital Speeches, Back in the Day

David Murray | Posted 10.08.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Great Depression, Theodore Roosevelt, Albert Lasker, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, National Recovery Administration, Vital Speeches, Michael Moore, New Deal, Orations, Fdr, Addresses, Tom Ridge, Obama Race Speech, Chicago News

A sampling of American speeches from 75 years ago reveals rhetoric both strange and strangely familiar.

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Ken Burns' New National Parks Documentary Starts Slowly, But Gets Better

Levi Novey | Posted 11.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Grand Canyon, Theodore Roosevelt, Yellowstone, Stephen Mather, Documentaries, Dayton Duncan, Everglades National Park, Gifford Pinchot, Franklin Roosevelt, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Lincoln Memorial, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, History, Tourism, Martin Luther King, Ken Burns, John Muir, National Park Service, Yosemite, Documentary, Mark Twain, PBS Documentaries, National Parks, Forest Service, The National Parks: America's Best Idea, Civilian Conservation Corps, Green Jobs, Green News

I suspect those who only watch the first few episodes will be teetering on the edge of boredom. Those who stay around longer, or just cherry-pick an episode to watch among the later ones will end up much more excited and satisfied.

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America's Best Idea

Carl Pope | Posted 11.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Public Land, National Parks, Ken Burns, Shelton Johnson, Theodore Roosevelt, Sierra Club, Yellowstone, Barack Obama, Gloryland, Green News

How cool is it to be watching a special one-hour excerpt from Ken Burns's 12-hour PBS special on the National Parks in the White House screening room with President Obama?

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A House in the Hamptons?: Historic Vacation Spots of the Black Elite

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York

Read More: Harlem, Theodore Roosevelt, Obama Martha's Vineyard, Moet & Chandon, Obama Vacation, Noel Harkin, Rockefellers, Rene Hunter, Obama, Henessey, African-American History, Vanderbilt, Lynn Whitfield, FREDI WASHINGTON, Villa Lewaro, South Hampton, Hamptons, Michael MC COLLOM, Newport, Elite, Astors, Irvington-on-Hudson, African Americans, Yachts, Boston, Earl Graves, Norma Jean Darden, Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Dr. Norman Cotton, Susan Taylor, Baltimore, Diana Vreeland, Dr. Chester Redhead, Country House, Sag Harbor, New York, New York City, Thomas Downing, Steven Robinson, George T. Downing, Golf, Ronald K. Brown, Resort, Michelle Patterson, Evidence Dance Company, Madame C. J. Walker, Ruling Elite, Isabel Washington Powell, Roosevelt, Oak Bluffs, Martha's Vineyard, A'Lelia Walker, New York News

Some African-Americans, seemingly born under an auspicious star, apparently have always gathered to share their leisure pursuits with others who were similarly favored.

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Senator Ted Kennedy: American Patriot

George Mitrovich | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Theodore Roosevelt, Senate, Iraq War, John F. Kennedy, Vietnam War, Camelot, Ted Kennedy, Politics News

Against his family history Senator Ted Kennedy never wavered from his profound commitment to public service, of his consuming desire to serve America and the public interest.

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Wilderness Warrior: Douglas Brinkley's New Historical Epic of Theodore Roosevelt Has Key Lessons for Our Time

Paul Abrams | Posted 09.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Douglas Brinkley, Executive Power, President Obama, Wilderness, Theodore Roosevelt, Feather Wars, Bird Sanctuaries, Robert Barwell Roosevelt, Character, National Parks, Value-Systems, Green News

When Roosevelt preserved a natural wonder or habitat, he was accused of being a socialist. The same battles are still being waged against the same forces and with the same terminology.

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Curse Words from an Old Manse

Sophie Pollitt-Cohen | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Winston Churchill, Theodore Roosevelt, Napoleon, Slaves, Free Speech, Stupid, Thomas Jefferson, Monticello, Henry Louis Gates, Cursing, Benjamin Franklin, Barack Obama, Politics News

I strongly disagree with anyone caring about this "stupidly" business. Politics is serious, and sometimes people get fired up. Diplomatic speaking is for diplomats.

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The "Loan Arrangers" Will Not Ride Again

Rep. Barney Frank | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mortgage Crisis, Economy, Economic Crisis, Tarp, Theodore Roosevelt, New Deal, Woodrow Wilson, Barney Frank, Aig, Franklin Roosevelt, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, Joseph Kennedy, Regulatory Reform, Timothy Geithner, Ben Bernanke, Free Market, Wall Street Bonuses, Politics News

We will prove that the best thing you can do for capitalism is to have rules that give investors the confidence to get back into the system, that protect the great majority of decent people from abuses.

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Blue Dog Dems: Are You Listening?

Denise Dennis | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Blue Dogs, Health Care Bill, Theodore Roosevelt, Health Caare Reform, Health Care Debate, Fdr, Health Care, Ee, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News

FDR's opponents called him a socialist and claimed that Social Security would be tantamount to a government take-over of their lives. Sound familiar?

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View And Vote: Green American Heroes

planetgreen.discovery.com | Posted 08.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Theodore Roosevelt, Independence Day, July Fourth, Green Heroes, Environmentalist, Ansel Adams, Green News

Celebrate the fourth of July with these green American visionaries. ...

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Presidential Facial Hair: The Good, The Bad And The Grizzly (SLIDESHOW, POLL)

Huffington Post | Hilary Moss | Posted 07.27.2009 | Style

Read More: Slidepoll, Benjamin Harrison, Chester Alan Arthur, James Garfield, Mustache, Martin Van Buren, Presidents, Theodore Roosevelt, Former Presidents, Rutherford B. Hayes, Abraham Lincoln, William Howard Taft, Mustaches, Ulysses S. Grant, Grover Cleveland, Beard, Style News

The President of the United States has to put his best face forward...and sometimes it's covered in hair. President Obama claims he can't grow a beard...

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Might the Obamas Restore Lost White House Glory?

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.29.2009 | Style

Read More: Chandilers, Theodore Roosevelt, Blue Room, Jacqueline Kennedy, East Room, Red Room, Stephane Boudin, Green Room, Barack Obama, James Archer Abbott, Senator Arlen Specter, White House State Dinner, Yellow Room, George Washington, Curtains, White House Garden, Decor, Mead & White, White House Swing Set, President Truman, Antiques, White House Decoration, Michelle Obama Style, Kennedys, Mckim, State Dinner, Style News

To date the Obamas' most noticeable change to their new home outside has been to install a de-luxe swing-set near the President's office. How have past administrations redecorated?

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Party Switches Made By Famous Political Figures (SLIDESHOW)

HuffingtonPost.com | Katharine Zaleski | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Arlen Specter, Slideshow, Theodore Roosevelt, Ray Nagin, Norm Coleman, Michael Bloomberg, Loretta Sanchez, Hillary Clinton, Rick Perry, Charles Barkley, Jim Webb, Jim Jeffords, Politics News

Senator Arlen Specter's announcement Tuesday that he would switch from the Republican to the Democratic party came as a surprise to many. But party ...

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In With the New

Michael DeJong | Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics

Presidents come in various shapes and sizes, ages, disciplines and principles. But what many of them seem to have in common is their unwavering obsession with cleanliness...literally or figuratively.

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Obama: The Environmental President?

Bill Chameides | Posted 02.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Yosemite, Clean Air Act (1990), Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Cap and Trade, Ronald Reagan, Fish & Wildlife Service, George W. Bush, Air Quality, Woodrow Wilson, Endangered Species Act, Barack Obama, Clean Air Act, National Park Service, Clean Water Act, Legislation, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Diane Feinstein, Theodore Roosevelt, Water Pollution, Richard Nixon, Montreal Protocol, Kyoto Protocol, Abraham Lincoln, Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, Oceans, Air Pollution, Environmental Protection Agency, Global Warming, Green News

Will Obama be able to advance an environmental agenda? If so, he will have distinguished himself from Democratic administrations that promised a lot but delivered little on the environment.

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Duplicity Grows in Brooklyn: Chuck Schumer's Edifice Complex

Tom Watson | Posted 02.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Theodore Roosevelt, Hugh Carey, David Paterson, Brooklyn, Financial Crisis, Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer, Barack Obama, Caroline Kennedy, Politics News

That Schumer should appear in downtown Brooklyn, media in tow, claiming that Governor Carey doesn't qualify for the naming honors should qualify our senior Senator for a one-way ticket out of his home borough.

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Obama and "The Chicago Way"

Martin Nolan | Posted 01.08.2009 | Chicago

Read More: James Wright, Lynn Sweet Chicago Sun-Times, Ben Hecht Charles MacArthur, Mies Van Der Rohe, Boston, Richard J. Daley, Harvard FacultyClub, The Front Page, Sean Connery, Warren G. Harding, Rosalind Russell, Cary Grant, Nelson Algren, Steve Neal, Theodore Roosevelt, James T. Farrell, Happy Days Are Here Again, Sy Hersh, Richard M. Daley, Willa Cather, Grover Cleveland, Stud Terkel, Al Capone, Saul Bellow, Kurt Vonnegut, H.H. Richardson, John Kass, Finley Peter Dunne, Franklin Roosevelt, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Barack Obama, Howard Hawks, Blackstone Hotel, Dwight Eisenhower, David Thomson, Rahm Emanuel, Mike Royko, Chicago Tribune, Carl Sandburg, Theodore Dreiser, John Dos Passos, Abraham Lincoln, 1968 Demorcatic National Convention, Chicago News

How does Barack Obama fit into political Chicago? I found out at another convention, Boston's in 2004.

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Lehman Brothers' Presidential Connections

CNN Postcards | Patricia Sellers | Posted 12.26.2008 | Business

Read More: Economic Bailout, Theodore Roosevelt, Wall Street Crisis, Hank Paulson, Economy, Lehman Brothers, George Bush, Jeb Bush, Business News

Now that the government has agreed to rescue Citigroup (C), investors are pondering again a question that never seems to die: Wasn't it a mistake to l...

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When The World Watched Chicago

Robert Loerzel | Posted 12.06.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Chicago History, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Chicago, William Jennings Bryan, Abraham Lincoln, Presidential Debates, Barack Obama, Grant Park, Political Conventions, Fdr, Election 2008, Chicago News

Obama's eloquent election-night speech in Grant Park is surely one of the great moments in Chicago history.

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What Would the Roosevelts Do?

Lloyd Alter | Posted 11.26.2008 | Green

Read More: Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Economy, Recession, Environment, Environmentalism, Green News

Perhaps Teddy would see this as an opportunity to plant more trees, protect more natural landmarks, clean our air and water and fight climate change. He would certainly approve of Franklin's Conservation Corps.

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