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...Theodore Roosevelt once said, “Like all Americans, I like big things.” The same could be said for Ken Burns, the man behind “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea,” a documentary coming out in the fall of 2009 on Roosevelt’s relationship with the United States National Park system. Burns, who spoke in Sanders Theatre last Friday, is known for making documentaries on a grand scale—grand in scope, length, and audience viewership. For example, his most famous documentary...
...else would you characterize as being hypomanic?Theodore Roosevelt is a wonderful example. I compare Clinton to Roosevelt a lot in that they are so much alike in terms of being these gifted, hypomanic, genius presidents. Recently, Newt Gingrich was our last great hypomanic figure. He was very grandiose, a man leading a revolution...
...When McCain's turn came, he leaped in with a table-turning attack. "My hero," McCain declared, is Theodore Roosevelt, who said, "Walk softly, and carry a big stick." He hinted that Obama is as reckless as, well, certain highly unpopular Presidents...
...Ken’s greatest accomplishments has been to solve the puzzle of how to bring a subject to film which is documented almost entirely by photographs,” Tweed Roosevelt ’64, Theodore’s great-grandson, said before the screening...
Historical photographs of the president, his trips West, and National Parks will appear in am exhibit opening in Pusey Library this week entitled “Through the Camera Lens: Theodore Roosevelt and the History of Photography...