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Edmund Morris, a Theodore Roosevelt biographer, reminds us that invective can sting and skewer, yet bring admiration for the pronouncer. He spoke at the Smithsonian Institution last month on T.R. as a writer, noting that Roosevelt indulged in the biting phrase for the sheer joy of it. "One often heard the undertone of Homeric chuckling," said Morris, when Roosevelt delivered himself of another polished gem, "as if, after all, he loved the fun of hating what he hated." Few people could stay angry at such artistry and boyishness...
...Theodore Roosevelt...
...revolutionary policies (favoring agrarian reform, secular education collective bargaining and recovery of natural resources)--all of them opposed by the successive government in Washington, from Taft to Hoover--Mexico became a modern, contradictory self-knowing and self-questioning nation... A great statesman is a pragmatic idealist Franklin D. Roosevelt had the political imagination and the diplomatic will to respect Mexico when President Lazaro Cardenas, (in the culminating act of the Mexican Revolution,) expropriated the nation's oil resources...
Instead of menacing, sanctioning or invading, Roosevelt negotiated...
Shalit added that the show will include segments of yesterday's Class Day ceremonies as well as an "amusing intro" look at Harvard's past, including material on the college days of past U.S. presidents Franklin '04 and Theodore Roosevelt (Class of 1880). The senior English Address, which Marius described as "very serious," will be given by Jon Kenton '83. The University will also award the following degrees...