Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library

#OTD 10 Nov 1880. Fourteen days married, Theodore Roosevelt writes in his diary:

"I doubt if there was ever a happier honeymoon than ours has been."

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#OTD 9 Nov 1910. The day after an election defeat, Theodore Roosevelt writes a friend: "we got thoroughly thrashed yesterday." But he is enlisted "for three years or the war": "we will see this thing through."

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#OTD 8 Nov 1898. Four months after Kettle Hill, Theodore Roosevelt is elected governor of New York by fewer than 18,000 votes.

"I have played it in bull luck this summer."

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#OTD 7 November 1880. Eleven days married, TR writes in his diary:

"Alice is a beautiful walker, with her long, firm step, and clambers over fences about as easily as I do."

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“Being a citizen puts you in the arena. You’re not allowed to be a critic. You’re not allowed to be in the mezzanine if you’re a citizen.”

Ambassador @RahmEmanuel joins Ted Roosevelt V on the new episode of Good Citizen. The former White House Chief of Staff, congressman, Chicago mayor and ambassador to Japan sat down during the grand opening of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library to talk about citizenship, what he heard on a bike ride across New Hampshire, and why people want to be seen and heard.

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#GoodCitizen #DareGreatly