Topic: Theodore Roosevelt
"The situation is getting more tense as the poorest people who need so much are waiting for deliveries. I think tempers might be frayed." — David Wimhurst, spokesman for the Brazilian-commanded U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti. ___ "We are on the doorstep of accomplishing something that Washington has been talking about since Teddy Roosevelt was president." — President Barak Obama, on ...
Scenes from White House Christmases past, as recounted in the book "Christmas at the White House," by Jennifer B. Pickens: FIRST TREE The first known Christmas tree at the White House was in the tenure of Benjamin Harrison, who helped trim one in the upstairs library with friends ...
This is a pretty illuminating chart from JPMorgan. It compares public versus private sector experience of cabinet-level appointments by presidents, going as far back as Teddy Roosevelt.
President Barack Obama is not the first sitting U.S. president to receive the Nobel Peace Prize — Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt were the first two, and he joins a long list of Americans whose efforts have drawn the attention of the Norwegian Nobel Committee. U.S. winners of the ...
