Theodore Roosevelt
- Pages
- about 121
- Category
- History
- Language
- English
- Reading time
- 2.2 h at 250 wpm
From the opening
If you had been in New York in 1917 or 1918 you might have seen,
walking quickly from a shop or a hotel to an automobile, a thick-set
but active and muscular man, wearing a soft black hat and a cape
overcoat. Probably there would have been a group of people waiting
on the sidewalk, as he came out, for this was Theodore Roosevelt,
Ex-President of the United States, and there were more Americans who
cared to know what he was doing, and to hear what he was saying, than
cared about any other living man.
Although he was then a private citizen, holding no office, he was a
leader of his country, which was engaged in the Great War. Americans
were being called upon,--the younger men to risk their lives in battle,
and the older people to suffer and support their losses. Theodore
Roosevelt had always said that it was a good citizen's duty cheerfully
to do one or the other of these things in the hour of danger. They knew
that he had done both; and so it was to him that men turned, as to a
strong and brave man, whose words were simple and noble, and what was
more important, whose actions squared with his words.
He had come back, not long before, from one of his hunting trips, and
it was said that fever was still troubling him. The people wish to
know if this is true, and one of the men on the sidewalk, a reporter,
probably, steps forward and asks him a question.
He stops for a moment, and turns toward the man. Not much thought of
sickness is left in the mind of any one there! His face is clear, his
cheeks ruddy,--the face of a man who lives outdoors; and his eyes,
light-blue in color, look straight at the questioner. One of his eyes,
it had been said, was dimmed or blinded by a blow while boxing, years
before, when he was President.
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