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Anonymous ID: 555e84 Dec. 14, 2020, 5:44 a.m. No.12020173   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0231 >>0236 >>0252 >>0280 >>0423 >>0560 >>0593 >>0683 >>0821

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WH Advent COMMS 14th Dec: Teddy Roosevelt

 

A popular myth suggests that President Theodore Roosevelt “banned” Christmas trees from the White House because of his strong belief in environmental conservation. But there was no such ban—the 26th President’s family simply did not celebrate with a tree.

 

In 1902, the President’s son Archie snuck a small Christmas tree into the residence and hid it in a closet. The President was amused and allowed the tree to stay, coining a new family tradition.

 

https://www.whitehouse.gov/adventcalendar/?share_id=252043&utm_source=url#14

 

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/TRChristmas-@300ppi-620x416.jpg

 

[NOTE: Teddy R + 1902 either gives coal miners strike or the origin of TEDDY BEARs. Teddy R was a honorableBIG GAME HUNTER:

 

https://www.nps.gov/thrb/learn/historyculture/storyofteddybear.htm ]

 

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Prez Teddy R:

 

  • briskly led Congress / American public toward progressive reforms and a strong foreign policy.

  • took the view that the president as a "steward of the people" shouldtake whatever action necessary for the public good unless expressly forbidden by law or the Constitution.

  • was one of the most conspicuous heroes of Spanish-American war.

  • held the ideal that the government should be thegreat arbiter of the conflicting economic forces in the nation,especially between capital and labor,guaranteeing justice to each and dispensing favors to none

  • emerged spectacularly as a"trust buster"by forcing the dissolution of a greatrailroadcombination in the Northwest. Other antitrust suits under the Sherman Act followed.

  • ensured the construction of the Panama Canal. His corollary to the Monroe Doctrineprevented the establishment of foreign basesin the Caribbean and arrogated the sole right of intervention in Latin America to the US

  • won theNobel Peace Prizefor mediating the Russo-Japanese War, reached a gentleman's agreement on immigration with Japan, and sent the Great White Fleet on a goodwill tour of the world.

  • added enormously to the national forests in the West, reserved lands for public use, and fostered great irrigation projects.

 

https://www.whitehousehistory.org/bios/theodore-roosevelt