Talking ’bout Teddy: Theodore Roosevelt Symposium focuses on historic third-party run
September 15, 2012 at 7:00 pm in The Dickinson Press
America has almost always had two political parties the Federalists vs. the Democratic-Republicans, the Jacksonian Democrats vs. the Whigs, and the modern Democrats vs. Republicans but when the 26th president didn’t support the way his successor was running the country, he founded his own party. Continue Reading
As for as the Roosevelt fable goes, it’s lipstick on pig, the adoration slobbered upon him by NeoCons and Bill Clinton notwithstanding. Who was the real TR? In the words of Thomas J. DiLorenzo:
“Teddy Roosevelt was an imperialist who was morbidly fascinated with war and killing.”
“Mark Twain, who met him twice, judged that he was ‘clearly insane,’ as Tom Woods recalls in an essay … “
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“American Mussolini” is how John V. Denson
refers to TR.
I recommend Denson be invited to the lectures and panel discussions (free and open to the public), to dispel the myths of TR.
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