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“Forge yourself in wilderness.”
American Giant. One of the best to have ever done it.
Be Theodore Roosevelt
>Born 1858. New York. Wealthy family.
>Sickly child. Severe asthma. Can barely breathe. Weak.
>Father tells you: "You have the mind but not the body. Make your body."
>Build a gym in your house. Lift. Box. Push until your lungs work.
>Will yourself into strength.
>Enter Harvard. Box. Row. Hunt. Study everything.
>Graduate. Enter politics at 23.
>Mother and wife die on the same day. Same house. Valentine's Day 1884.
>Write in your diary: "The light has gone out of my life."
>Flee to the Badlands. Become a cowboy. Cattle rancher in Dakota Territory.
>Hunt grizzlies. Capture outlaws. Live hard. Forge yourself in wilderness.
>Return East. Marry again. Re-enter politics.
>Become Police Commissioner of New York. Walk the streets at night in disguise. Fire corrupt cops.
>Spanish-American War breaks out.
>Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Resign immediately. "I will not stay behind a desk."
>Form the Rough Riders. Volunteer cavalry. Cowboys, miners, Native Americans, Ivy Leaguers.
>Lead them up San Juan Hill. Bullets everywhere. Horse shot. Keep charging on foot.
>Return a war hero.
>Become Governor of New York. Too reformist. Political bosses want you gone.
>"Make him Vice President. That'll shut him up."
>President McKinley gets assassinated. You're 42.
>Youngest President in American history.
>Trust-bust. Break up monopolies. Take on J.P. Morgan and Rockefeller.
>Create National Parks. Preserve wilderness. 230 million acres protected.
>Build the Panama Canal. "I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate."
>Win Nobel Peace Prize for ending Russo-Japanese War.
>Finish term. Hand presidency to Taft.
>Go on safari in Africa. Kill lions. Collect specimens for museums.
>Return. Taft has betrayed your policies.
>Run again. Third party. Bull Moose.
>Get shot in the chest before a speech in Milwaukee. Bullet lodged in rib.
>Refuse hospital. Speech is 50 pages folded in your pocket. Bullet went through it.
>"Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot."
>Speak for 90 minutes. Bleeding. Then go to hospital.
>Lose election. Split the vote. Wilson wins.
>Son Quentin dies in WWI aerial combat. Never recover.
>Die in your sleep 1919. Age 60.
Vice President Marshall: "Death had to take him sleeping, for if Roosevelt had been awake, there would have been a fight."
Leaves behind: The National Parks. The Panama Canal. Trust-busting precedent. The modern presidency. A regiment. A stuffed bear named after him. Proof that the sickly can become titans. The belief that action conquers everything.
If all the letters on the Waffle House sign are properly working then it’s not authentic. Keep driving. – at North Charleston, SC
Special game to be present at. Welcome Passtronaut @josh_dobbs1 #SKOL
2 minutes left in the 4th quarter.
Down 4.
Ball on your own 28.
@josh_dobbs1, take it away.
📺: #NOvsMIN on @NFLonFOX
Joshua Dobbs Leads Epic 4th-Quarter Comeback
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Crawford is ridiculous. Total domination. Pound for pound it's Bud and the Monster and then a big gap. Bud Crawford is a welterweight for the ages. From the stock of the Four Kings ... he's that good. Hail the King of #boxing!!!👑
Texas, thanks for coming to the fish fry. Sincerely, the Midwest. #SpenceCrawford – at Paradise, NV
Fight Night. Lets get it Bud 🥊#SpenceCrawford – at Las Vegas, NV
The Crunk Era…we were spoiled. #takemeback 😡 😤 – at North Charleston, SC