Word: roosevelt
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...Edmund Morris: A great president should embody with out any equivocation the hopes and desires of the American people at the time of his election. I think in the case of Theodore Roosevelt, the new young president (he was the youngest we've ever had, by the way) embodied the intoxicating feeling at the turn of the century that America had at last become a world power. Reagan, at the moment of his accession, embodied a general national desire to put aside all the self-doubt and gloom of the 1970s and recover the optimism and patriotism of the 1950s...
...Thought that he was gorgeous? He was. Theodore Roosevelt, on the other hand, was not gorgeous, he was very ugly. But somehow his physical apparatus was overwhelmingly tactile. When Theodore Roosevelt walked into a room and when Reagan walked into a room, you could see people luxuriating in their physical aura. A lot of Hitler's power had to do with his strange beak, the fat curved back, awkward gestures and that hyptonisingly strange face. Never underestimate the power of the body in politics...
...feel a lot of pressure after writing Theodore Roosevelt? Is that why you did something so unexpected with Dutch...
...band together in a group. It was a fantasy of the bored and excessive, trying to entertain themselves. The boys decided their title should probably be something fun, something appropriate for women and children. Finally, the Pudding's singers rested their eyes on three trophy crocodiles, shot by Teddy Roosevelt '80 and mounted over the bar's fireplace. In inebriated Greek, they dubbed themselves the Krokodiloes...
...vivid as to make it seem Morris sat with the two leaders. In fact, Morris admits he was not there; he went to Iceland later and, relying on interviews, "enjoyed the scribe's traditional advantage of being able to recollect emotions in tranquility." Morris' brilliant portrait of Teddy Roosevelt's rise to the presidency was of course built from research embellished by his imagination...