Talk:Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt/Archive 1

Trust Busting
There should be a sentence or two of why this label isn't exactly accurate. 66.10.167.1 21:23, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Merge
I am suggesting that Theodore Roosevelt's Presidency is merged here please. God knows why we need two pages on the same subject. 163.1.146.77 (talk) 22:52, 26 February 2009 (UTC)


 * I have redirected it to here. Richard75 (talk) 15:47, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

Bias?
Is this really proper to say? It is under progressivism.

Roosevelt, the former deputy sheriff on the Dakota frontier, and police commissioner of New York City, '''knew evil when he saw it and was dedicated to destroying it. ''' Ratattuta (talk) 05:33, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

I would have to agree with the above user, the statement in the section on Progressivism that s/he quotes is way too opinionated and is unqualified for an encyclopedia article


 * Not sure why the sentence is still in this article after all this time. I have deleted it.  If replaced, it should obviously be edited for tone.  Clockster (talk) 20:50, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

Much better without the above statement, but there stills exists an overall feeling of bias in the Progressivism section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.147.36.45 (talk) 14:29, 22 July 2011 (UTC)

This page is poorly written
I'm not a wikipedia expert (so I don't know how to tag this page), but this article has poor encyclopedic syntax. There's too many normative claims-sans-warrants, and too few neutral statements of fact.

68.209.119.35 15:30, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

There are many references to Theodore Roosevelt's ideas as to economic policies but says nothing as to economic performance. The effects of Roosevelt's policies are, of course, on economic conditions (like those of Andrew Jackson and other Presidents) are debated, but I think it is worth mentioning. JimServo (talk) 00:39, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Roosevelt's Response to Racisim
The various few paragraphs describing Roosevelt's response to racial discrimination are, at best, ham-handed if not entirely incomplete: For example, Roosevelt wrote in | The Rough Riders and Men of Action that his "colored infantrymen" got "a little uneasy". We are left to infer from this article, absent any context, that Roosevelt thought they perhaps lacked some component of character possessed by his white soldiers. The word "however" packs a lot of meaning insofar as it presents a contrast between his views on racism and his personal actions, a distinction which is not, in my opinion, deserved. A complete reading of Roosevelt's own words demonstrates that the reason for their behaviour had more to do with their inability, in the absence of any leadership, to convince the white soldiers that they had a right to fight along with them. Roosevelt acts to show everyone that they indeed would suffer the same fate since they are, in fact, the same kind of men despite what the white soldiers from Arizona thought to the contrary. Additionally, the reference link is irrelevant and quite broken. I intend to fix both of these as time allows, but this cannot remain as it reads currently. (Miimno (talk) 15:04, 17 October 2011 (UTC))


 * This article is on Roosevelt's Presidency. His views on African American soldiers need to be in his main biography article. Cmguy777 (talk) 23:12, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

Scandal section
There were certain scandals that took place during President Roosevelt's Administration, the main one having to do with building the Panama Canal. There were Postal, Land, and Indian Services scandals. One would believe from this article that President Roosevelt was scandal free. Any objections into putting into scandal sections? Cmguy777 (talk) 23:16, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

Source section needed
This article needs a source section for the references. Cmguy777 (talk) 23:29, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

Bits missing in "Leadership style" section?
I'm quoting the last sentence: "The grateful press, with unprecedented access to the White House, rewarded Roosevelt with ample coverage., rendered the more possible by Roosevelt's practice of screening out reporters he didn't like." End of quote. The sentence don't sound right to me, but I can't edit it because I don't understand what it tries to say. There are both a comma and a period at the same place, possibly because an editor forgot to complete the sentence. Urbanus Secundus (talk) 23:01, 27 May 2013 (UTC)

Cheap shot at James Bradley
In the Korea section there is a reference to a myth of the Taft-Katsura agreement then when you look at the citation it has this long winded direct criticism of James Bradley and how most historians don't agree with him.

I'm not saying James Bradley is correct or incorrect. But it seems odd that the editor instead of simply saying this was a myth but took it upon himself to say James Bradley is one of the historians who promote the myth and say most historians disagree with him. That seems to me like a very personal attack as well as the fact the editor never cited more than one source (Journal of Modern History) which I don't think constitutes "Historians" rejected Bradley's claims.". One article in a journal is Historians in the plural? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Meme3234 (talk • contribs) 05:01, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

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Succession is automatic.
Roosevelt became US President upon McKinley's death. Not later in the day, when he took the presidential oath. GoodDay (talk) 17:55, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

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new article on Foreign policy of the Theodore Roosevelt administration
Like many presidential articles that have separate articles on foreign policy (eg Trump, Obama, Reagan, Clinton, Biden, Kennedy, Bush, Eisenhower) it would be good to have a new article on Foreign policy of the Theodore Roosevelt administration. I start by copying this entire text there. Next I will add new material there, and delete some minor items there. I note that the major books on TR's foreign policy like Howard Beale have NOT been used here-a serious weakness that the new article can cure. Rjensen (talk) 02:46, 16 October 2021 (UTC)