If you had known Theodore Roosevelt as a child, sickly and suffering from asthma and
poor eyesight, one could never imagine him growing up to be come a
proficient big-game hunter, outdoorsman, leader of a military unit,
to become the 26th President of the United States. He was
also an accomplished author, his best known work being The Winning of the West, published in four volumes. He was a charismatic man that
gained the love of the public, who stated upon his departure from the
White House at the end of his presidency:
I do not believe that anyone else has every enjoyed the White House as much as I have.
Nicknamed “Teddy”, a stuffed toy bear
was named for him by a toymaker after a cartoonist portrayed Roosevelt with a bear
cub.
