Theodore Cleaver

105 years ago President Theodore Roosevelt spoke at the Sorbonne in the Grand Amphitheater at the University of Paris (Leadership Now - Leading Blog), the most studied center of learning in the country of Europe. Here he emphasized his belief that success rests on the quality of work and character a person is willing to apply to a problem or situation. What I would consider to be the most well-known component of this speech, expresses the standard by which Roosevelt judged himself and others.…

In the "Man with the Muckrake", Roosevelt appeals to the journalists of withdrawing themselves from the position of a muckraker by connecting the action of publicizing a false image about someone to stealing. Roosevelt's use of diction conveys the immoral act the muckrakers are committing collectively. "The eighth commandment reads, 'Thou shalt not steal.' It does not read, 'Thou shalt not steal from the rich man.' It does not read, 'Thou shalt not steal from the poor man.' It reads simply and…

The late 19th Century and early 20th Century changed the American identity for the better with the hope of inspiration from important people and our actions before and in war. In an excerpt from Roosevelt Corollary, Roosevelt talks about how we acted for ourselves as well as others when we asserted the Monroe Doctrine. He seems to explain how we are not always able to help because we cannot be included, but in certain cases, we can help and we always try to. As an example, there were no ways…

William Howard Taft: Dollar Diplomacy and Taft-Knox Foreign Policy Taft shared the same view as Knox, a corporate lawyer who founded the giant conglomerate U.S. steel. The goal of the Dollar Diplomacy was to create stability and order that would best promote American commercial interests. Knox and Taft had a goal to improve financial opportunities, but they also wanted to use private capital to further U.S. interests overseas. The Dollar Diplomacy failed to counteract economic instability and…

it as, “one who inquires into and publishes scandal and allegations of corruption among political and business leaders.” The term Muckraker has been surrounded with a negative connotation since the term came about in 1902 under the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt. Some synonyms of the term Muckraker include Mudslinger, nitpicker and even hellion. But what most do not understand, is without the work of a Muckraker, those in which I prefer to recognize to as Journalism Intergritists, the world…

In his article “Mr. Roosevelt is Guilty,” Gary Murphy notes the standard analysis of Roosevelt's third presidential run: bored with civilian life and having a need to obtain power, he decided to seek revenge on Taft who had “failed to live up to the mentor's hopes,” (Murphy 441). Andrew Pavord also notes the revenge element of the standard analysis. Pavord references George Mowry's argument that Roosevelt ran for a third term because he was “prompted by his intense anger” at the antitrust suit…

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882 was the president number 32 of the united states led the united states in one of the hardest stages which was during the second world war he was in the government for 12 years which was from March 4, 1933 until his death in 1945, which is in a wheelchair for much of his adult life because he had polio terminal illness. A whole generation of Americans grew up without knowing any other president, since FDR served four unprecedented terms in…

came to such a crucial time in its history, immersing into the Gilded Age, it called upon a great leader to take the reins and control the country with an iron fist. Although many great presidents emerged during this time and it could be argued that Theodore Roosevelt or William Howard Taft were the most influential presidents, when all the facts are analyzed and considered, Grover Cleveland is obviously the most important person in this time period. Although he was never considered a great…

The Growth of the Federal Government in Modern United States Beginning in the late nineteenth to twentieth century, the role of the American federal government with regards to involvement in the lives of its citizens has greatly been magnified. There are quite a number of factors responsible for this occurrence. A lot of social and political reforms took place during this period. Some of them are the establishment of progressivism and the rise of the progressive party, The Populist Party, the…

Progressive presidents Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson embarked a sequence of executive reforms that affected the entire country. Roosevelt, directly influenced by reading muckraker Upton Sinclair’s 1906 book The Jungle, passed the Meat Inspection Act…