{"id":16200,"date":"2014-11-27T13:14:03","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T12:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=16200"},"modified":"2014-11-27T13:15:51","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T12:15:51","slug":"a-few-facts-about-president-theodore-roosevelt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=16200","title":{"rendered":"A few facts about President Theodore Roosevelt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This autumn, I am doing a six week (five session) evening class at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citylit.ac.uk\">London&#8217;s City Lit<\/a> on the subject of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citylit.ac.uk\/courses\/Humanities_and_social_studies\/History_and_politics\/American_political_institutions\/HH131\">&#8220;American Political Institutions&#8221;<\/a> and our lecturer is Malcolm Malcolmson. This week, the third of our lectures looked at the election, responsibilities and powers of the President.<\/p>\n<p>As a bit of homework, at the end of the previous lecture, each student had to pick a slip from a bag of the names of all the US presidents. Then, for the one we selected, we had to find out a few interesting facts and one quirky detail.<\/p>\n<p>My selection was Theodore Roosevelt who served as president from 1901-1909.<\/p>\n<p>My interesting facts were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He took office unexpectedly after the \u00a0assassination of William McKinley in 1901 and then won a second term in his own right.<\/li>\n<li>He won the Nobel Peace Prize for his negotiations to end the Russo- Japanese War.<\/li>\n<li>Although he was a Republican, he founded a new Progressive Party (known as the Bull Moose Party) and ran for president unsuccessfully as head of this party (but he did obtain 27% of the votes).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My quirky fact was:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Teddy Bear is named after him. This comes from his refusal to kill a captured American black bear while on a bear hunting trip [more information <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=16196\">here<\/a>].<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This autumn, I am doing a six week (five session) evening class at London&#8217;s City Lit on the subject of &#8220;American Political Institutions&#8221; and our lecturer is Malcolm Malcolmson. This week, the third of our lectures looked at the election, responsibilities and powers of the President. As a bit of homework, at the end of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16200"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16204,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16200\/revisions\/16204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}