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<\/h5>\n<\/h5>\nJake Rossen and Mental Floss present\u00a027 Things You Might Not Know About Theodore ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt<\/a>.\u00a0 Here are three of my favorites and some thoughts about each…<\/p>\n Born on October 27, 1858, Roosevelt\u2014often called \u201cTeedie\u201d or \u201cTeddy\u201d by friends\u2014was a\u00a0frail kid<\/a>, prone to illness, asthma, and lacking physical strength. Despite his modest build, he was an avid outdoors enthusiast, and sometimes carried his\u00a0fascination<\/a>\u00a0with wildlife indoors by practicing taxidermy. At 14, his family went on a tour of Egypt, and he traveled with his somewhat macabre tools of the trade, including arsenic. As a teen, Roosevelt put his stuffed birds aside and decided to become aggressive in his physical routine, training in gymnastics and weightlifting. Later, he would practice both boxing and judo. The intense interest he showed in combat sports made him a fitness advocate for the rest of his life. A lover of the outdoors, Roosevelt made protecting the natural wonder of American territory a priority. Over his tenure in the White House, he\u00a0reserved<\/a>\u00a0200 million acres of land for national forests and wildlife refuges; previous presidents combined had only done a fifth of that. \u201cWe have become great because of the lavish use of our resources and we have just reason to be proud of our growth,” he\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0in 1908. “But the time has come to inquire seriously what will happen when our forests are gone, when the coal, the iron, the oil and the gas are exhausted, when the soils have been still further impoverished and washed into the streams, polluting the rivers, denuding the fields, and obstructing navigation.<\/p>\n “These questions do not relate only to the next century or to the next generation. It is time for us now as a nation to exercise the same reasonable foresight in dealing with our great natural resources that would be shown by any prudent man in conserving and widely using the property which contains the assurance of well-being for himself and his children.\u201d Jake Rossen and Mental Floss present\u00a027 Things You Might Not Know About Theodore ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt.\u00a0 Here are three of my<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,72,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-history","category-trivia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20603,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20573\/revisions\/20603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
1. HE WENT FROM WIMP TO WARRIOR.<\/h4>\n
\nCraig’s Thoughts:<\/strong>\u00a0 His love of taxidermy before he was even in his teens makes me think of someone who would grow up to be a serial killer, not the President of the United States.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
25. HE GAVE A SPEECH IMMEDIATELY AFTER BEING SHOT.<\/h4>\n
\n\n\n\n\nRoosevelt\u2019s reputation as a \u201cbull moose,\u201d his term to describe anyone made of sturdy stuff, was never on better display than October 14, 1912, when the former president was giving a speech in Milwaukee and\u00a0announced<\/a>\u00a0he had just been shot by a would-be assassin named John Schrank. A shocked crowd looked on as Roosevelt revealed a bloody shirt and a stack of prepared remarks with a bullet hole in them (above; you can see both the papers and the shirt at the\u00a0Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site<\/a>\u00a0in New York City). Roosevelt spoke for 90 minutes before allowing his aides to take him to a hospital. The bullet had lodged itself near his ribs and would remain there for the rest of his life.<\/div>\nCraig’s Thoughts:<\/strong>\u00a0This probably more than anything else would have been enough to give TR the reputation as a tough guy.\u00a0 But when you add it to the fact that he went west as a young man (Shades of Horace Greeley) and made his living as a cowboy; that he volunteered to serve in the army, that he distinguished himself in battle, that he was a decorated war hero, that he boxed (and continued to spar at the age of 50, losing sight in one eye in the process), that he was an avid outdoorsman, then you have to admit that Teddy Roosevelt was a legitimate tough guy.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
9. HE WAS A MASSIVE ENVIRONMENTALIST.<\/h4>\n
\nCraig’s Thoughts:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>I love that TR had the foresight and love of nature enough to work to preserve our natural resources for future generations.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"