This was the very sort of legislation that Roosevelt himself had in mind.

After the veto, Roosevelt reversed himself, as did many legislators, and the veto was sustained.

In 1886, Roosevelt ran as the Republican candidate for mayor of New York City, portraying himself as " The Cowboy of the Dakotas.

After he finally broke with Taft, Roosevelt saw himself as the only person who could save the Republican party from defeat in the upcoming Presidential election and announced himself as a candidate for the Republican nomination.

About African Americans, Roosevelt said, " I have not been able to think out any solution of the terrible problem offered by the presence of the Negro on this continent, but of one thing I am sure, and that is that inasmuch as he is here and can neither be killed nor driven away, the only wise and honorable and Christian thing to do is to treat each black man and each white man strictly on his merits as a man, giving him no more and no less than he shows himself worthy to have.

Taft did not enjoy the easy relationship with the press that Roosevelt had, choosing not to offer himself for interviews or photo opportunities as often as the previous president had done.

Roosevelt's attempt to break the " two-term " tradition established by George Washington was also a focus of Willkie's criticism ; the Republican candidate accused Roosevelt of thinking himself indispensable and wanting to institute " one-man rule.

By December 1946, Washington had fully involved himself in activities at Roosevelt.

Theodore Roosevelt succeeded to the presidency upon William McKinley's assassination and was elected in 1904 to a full term himself, serving from 1901 to 1909.

Although Barack Obama got only 38. 45 % of Hamilton County's vote during the 2008 election, it is the highest percentage a Democrat presidential candidate has been able to get for this county since Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936 ( who himself had also lost the county ).

The proper pronunciation of the city's name is based on how President Theodore Roosevelt pronounced his name: according to the man himself, " pronounced as if it was spelled ' Rosavelt.

However, it is also rumored that Roosevelt himself first made the phrase publicly known, and that he meant it was West African proverb only metaphorically.

Otto promoted the dynasty's role in a post-war Europe and met regularly with Franklin Roosevelt ; Robert was the Habsburg representative in London ; Carl Ludwig and Felix joined the United States Army, serving with several American-raised relatives of the Mauerer line ; Rudolf smuggled himself into Austria in the final days of the war to help organise the resistance.

He was urged into running by the family and supporters of his old friend Theodore Roosevelt, who had himself been considering another campaign before his illness and death in 1919.

Portraying himself as a champion of traditional American values, Windrip easily defeats his opponents, Senator Walt Trowbridge and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

While he may never have used the term himself, the origin of the " muckraker " is attributed to President Theodore Roosevelt, who, during a speech delivered on April 14, 1906, and on the occasion of dedicating the U. S. House of Representatives office building, drew on a character from John Bunyan ’ s 1678 classic, Pilgrim ’ s Progress, saying:

In August 1953, the Shah finally agreed to Mossadegh's overthrow, after Roosevelt told that the U. S. would proceed with him or without him and formally dismissed the Prime Minister in a written decree, an act that had been made part of the constitution during the Constitution Assembly of 1949, convened under martial law, at which time the power of the monarchy was increased in various ways by the Shah himself.

Muir appealed to his friend US President Roosevelt, who would not commit himself against the dam, given its popularity with the people of San Francisco ( a referendum in 1908 confirmed a seven-to-one majority in favor of the dam and municipal water ).

McCloskey busied himself primarily with a visitation of the entire diocese, and was also instrumental in the conversion of Isaac Hecker, founder of the Paulist Fathers, and of James Roosevelt Bayley, later Archbishop of Baltimore.

His strategy was to align himself with celebrated national leaders, especially Theodore Roosevelt and Robert M. LaFollette as they swung through the state campaigning for William McKinley.

A third president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, himself a native of nearby Hyde Park, New York, would play a role in the town's history during the later years of the Great Depression when he oversaw the design process for the new post office.

Since the U. S. was not at war, the " Special Air Unit " could not be organized overtly, but the request was approved by President Franklin D. Roosevelt himself.

The publication of The Gremlins by Random House consisted of a 50, 000 run for the U. S. market with Dahl ordering 50 copies for himself as promotional material for himself and the upcoming film, handing them out to everyone he knew, including Lord Halifax, and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt who read it to her grandchildren.

Believing devoutly as they did in Anglo-Saxon institutions, it was important to both Roosevelt and Churchill that the Poles should have them.

Professor McNeill thinks that at Yalta, Stalin did not fully realize the dilemma which faced him, that he thought the exclusion of the anti-Soviet voters from East European elections would not be greatly resented by his allies, while neither Roosevelt nor Churchill frankly faced `` the fact that, in Poland at least, genuinely free democratic elections would return governments unfriendly to Russia '', by any definition of international friendliness.

Roosevelt and Pinchot supported the dam, as did President Woodrow Wilson.

This did not happen and the presidency, having been damaged by three late nineteenth and early twentieth century assassinations ( Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley ) and one impeachment ( Johnson ), reasserted its political dominance by the early twentieth century through such figures as Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.

On 1 March 1940, Ribbentrop received Sumner Welles, the American Under-Secretary of State, who was on a peace mission for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and did his best to abuse his American guest.

They did not win another league title until 1956, aided by a number of future Pro Football Hall of Fame players such as running back Frank Gifford, linebacker Sam Huff, and offensive tackle Roosevelt Brown, as well as all-pro running back Alex Webster.

He made many diplomatic visits throughout Europe and the Americas, including an extensive visit to the United States in 1936 where he met Franklin D. Roosevelt, who appointed a personal envoy – who did not require Senate confirmation – to the Holy See in December 1939, re-establishing a diplomatic tradition that had been broken since 1870 when the pope lost temporal power.

He did play him a few notes of a new song he had been working on ; " It's not for the movie ... it's a song about times past — about Mrs. Roosevelt and Joe DiMaggio and stuff.

The United States did not have an organized welfare system until the Great Depression, when emergency relief measures were introduced under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

For the rest of his life, Roosevelt never spoke of his wife Alice publicly or privately and did not write about her in his autobiography.

As late as 1919, when Roosevelt was working with Joseph Bucklin Bishop on a biography that included a collection of his letters, Roosevelt did not mention either his first or second marriage, which took place in London.

Roosevelt was a Republican activist during his years in the Assembly, writing more bills than any other New York state legislator did.

However, they did open for the Grateful Dead for two summer shows at Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City, New Jersey.

According to biographer Anderson, contrary to the belief of Roosevelt and other allies, Taft's role as Governor-General in the Philippines did not serve to equip him with the political skills essential for the White House.

While the strife during the election of 1912 devastated the once very close friendship between Taft and Theodore Roosevelt, the two eventually did reconcile not long before Roosevelt's death in 1919.

Thomas C. Platt, the " boss " of the New York State Republican Party, did not like Theodore Roosevelt, New York's popular governor, even though he was a fellow Republican.

In New Jersey, President Roosevelt did not file for the preference vote and lost that primary to Breckinridge, though he did receive 19 % of the vote on write-ins.

Tracy did not believe actors should publicize their political views, but in 1940 lent his name to the " Hollywood for Roosevelt " committee.

Franklin Roosevelt was the only president who died in office whose cortege did not follow this route.

President Theodore Roosevelt opened the fair via telegraph, but did not attend personally until after the election in November 1904, as he claimed he did not want to use the fair for political purposes.