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Still
only 50 years old when he left the Presidency, TR went looking for
adventure on Safari in Africa. At heart TR was a naturalist, fascinated
with all the species of animals on earth. He always had a small
menagerie of live and preserved specimens as a child. As and adult
he was quite expert. Hundreds of species were identified and brought
back to the Smithsonian and the American Museum of Natural History
from his 1909-1910 expedition to East Africa with son Kermit (shown
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of trouble at home was beginning to reach the former President.
Conservation and tariff policies were dividing the Republican party
and the "Old Guard" of conservatives were taking control. |
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Reporters
were waiting as TR, Kermit and their party ended the safari and
arrived in Egypt. TR, joined by Edith began a "grand tour"
of Europe including Paris, where he delivered his "Citizenship
in a Republic" speech and Norway, where he accepted the Nobel
Prize he had been awarded several years before for the Treaty of
Portsmouth. |
| TR
reviews the German Army maneuvers with Kaiser Willhelm II during
another stop on the grand tour. The Kaiser gave TR photos of the
occasion, personally writing inscriptions on all of them. A few
years later Germany would invade Belgium at the start of WW1. When
the German embassy conveyed a message to TR that recalled his pleasant
visit TR replied, "I shall never forget the way in which His
Majesty the Emperor received me in Berlin, nor the way His Majesty
King Albert of Belgium received me in Brussels." |
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TR lost the
election of 1912 when he ran for President on the Progressive
"Bull Moose" ticket, splitting the Republican vote and
handing the election to Democrat Woodrow Wilson.
1913, Theodore
Roosevelt at the wedding of his daughter Ethel to Richard Derby.
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