Happy Thanksgiving!Happy Thanks-giving! ” Once again the season of the year has come when, in accordance with the custom of our forefathers for generations past, the president appoints a day as the special occasion for all our people to give praise and thanksgiving to God.TR, Proclamation 776—Thanksgiving Day, 1907 (made October 26, 1907). play “the custom […]
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October 2 – John Adams on Samuel Adams(& not the Beer) November 13 – John Adams Returns to France(Reluctantly) “I have just sent Mr. Thaxter, Johnny and Stephens with the Things on Board. I shall go with Charles at four O Clock. It is now three.” to Abigail Adams, November 13, 1779John Adams was on a […]
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November 6: TR elected VPNovember 6:TR chosen VP ” I would a great deal rather be anything, say professor of history, than Vice-President.TR, letter to Thomas Platt, February 7, 1900.In 1900, Theodore Roosevelt was Governor of New York. He was taking on corruption, even in his own party.He had to go. play “stepping stone to […]
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“The Day of the Month reminds me of my Birth day, which will be on the 30th. I was born Octr. 19. 1735. Thirty Seven Years, more than half the Life of Man, are run out.—What an Atom, an Animalcule I am!” Diary, October 19, 1772 Birthdays were not celebrated the way we currently do. […]
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October 23: The End of the PA Coal Strike of 1902 ” My Dear Mr. Dunne: I have not had the heart to write to you until this coal strike was out of the way. Now I feel like throwing up my hands and going to the circus; but as that is not possible I […]
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October 16: Mr. Washington comes to dinner October 16: Mr. Washington comes to Dinner ” When I asked Booker T. Washington to dinner I did not devote very much thought to the matter one way or the other.TR, letter to Albion W. Tourgee, November 8, 1901.Theodore Roosevelt had been President of the United States for barely […]
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October 9: TR Takes On Football October 9 ” And so I have called you all down here to see whether you won’t all agree to abide by both the letter and the spirit of the rules, for that will help.TR, according to William Reid, October 9, 1905.The year 1905 was a tough year for football. […]
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October 2 – John Adams on Samuel Adams(& not the Beer) October 2 – John Adams on Samuel Adams(& not the Beer) “Without the character of Samuel Adams the true history of the American Revolution can never be written;” to William Tudor, Sr., June 17, 1817John and Samuel Adams were nearly thirteen years apart, and second […]
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September 25:- A Bill of Rights ”What think you of a Declaration of Rights? Should not such a Thing have preceded the Model?” to Thomas Jefferson, November 10, 1787John Adams knew something about compromise. It is what he had to fashion among the delegates of the Continental Congress in order to achieve Independence. The Constitutional […]
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September 17:Constitution Day The two Presidents that I portray, John Adams and Theodore Roosevelt, were not involved in the drafting of the United States Constitution. But that didn’t stop either of them from having a lot to say on the subject. To celebrate this day that the United States’ governing document was approved, the following video shows […]
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