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Teddy Roosevelt - Coggle Diagram
Teddy Roosevelt
Political Career
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starts politics at 23, can't be bribed because he's already rich
1912 Election
Creates the progressive in response of Taft the republican not being super progressive and going against all of T.R’s ideals
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McKinley assassinated and TR becomes president at 42 years old. Republicans wanted to get him out of New York which was part of the reason they made him vice president.
Background
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his father owned all the glass in NYC, he was pampered as a child until one day he started working out with his dad and became strong, and he was a boxer in college - Harvard
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Spent childhood out in nature, went on to establish most of America's national forests
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Personality
fearless, he once went up a tree by himself with a knife to get a mountain lion
hyperactive only sleeps 4 hours a night, once played 91 tennis games in one day
total recall memory, genius-level intellect
"bride at every wedding, corpse at every funeral" -quote by his son. Teddy was very charming and interested in people. He once talked to the driver ( who was african american) for 15 minutes while powerful senators waited.
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