It was no accident, and as he was emplaced by the establishment into the Vice-President slot on the 1900 ticket, in time for McKinley’s 1901 assassination, I’m sure there was no panic. He was to McKinley, what HW Bush was to Reagan, the person to be controlled, to replace the one who couldn’t.
That is not to say that Teddy didn’t do some great things for America, but McKinley was the Trump of the turn of the century, and would have led the United States on a path that would have delayed or prevented the disaster of 1913, and the entry of the US into WWI, whereas Teddy facilitated it.
Well, wait…cameras and photography go back to the war between the states. By 1900 there were photography studios in every city and in the larger towns.
Historical Picture of a Young Teddy Roosevelt watching the Funeral Procession for Abraham Lincoln.
Teddy is looking out the Window of His Grand Father’s House from an Upstairs Window down on Broadway.
I think I read years ago a degrees of separation to founding fathers about this photo. Roosevelt at Lincolns funeral. Lincoln a youngster when some founding fathers alive. And young John Kennedy watched Teddy Roosevelts funeral as Joseph Kennedy was of course much in DC and was in those circles.
I’ve been to Medora and TR National Park. Very beautiful place and underrated.
Very mixed feelings about TR. Really like the rough and tumble personality, championing conservation, the legend of the muckraker/trust buster. However, his actions, running as a spoiler on the Bull Moose party ticket led to the election of Woodrow Wilson, one of the worst presidents in US history.
PRINCIPLES … SOMETIMES a BUSINESSMAN HAS TO BE CHOSEN OVER a CIA SPOOK
or
a CONSERVATIONIST / ANTI – BIG BUSINESS over a ” Machine Politician “
June
July 1, 2026 5:28 pm
My Great Grandfather was a Rough Rider. Was in the Spanish American war.
John Chisum
July 1, 2026 5:48 pm
One of my favorite Presidents. McKinley chose him for VP because the big wigs in New York didn’t like him and wanted him out of there. The rest is history. It has a familiar tone to it.
Bully!
BruceC
July 1, 2026 5:50 pm
Compare the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library to the abomination Obama just built for himself.
HAT TIP to POTUS Thomas Jefferson –
” “The Constitution… meant that its coordinate branches should be checks on each other. But the opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves in their own sphere of action but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch.” –Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, 1804. ME 11:51 ”
The Obama abomination is not a presidential library because he is keeping all of his presidential records under lock and key at the National Archives. The abomination is only some sort of Obama museum, but interviews of many regular people who witnessed the opening ceremony, but who were not important enough to get invited into the event, could not identify any Obama accomplishments, so what will be in that huge building? Mostly emptiness it would seem, but that is a pretty good reflection of the man himself.
BTW Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. (President TR’s son) was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for heroism on Utah Beach, leading the first wave of the assault and then remaining on the beach, guiding follow-on waves across the beach under withering enemy fire.
TR Jr. died from a heart attack a few weeks later.
Sharon
July 1, 2026 7:16 pm
The location POTUS went to today is 150 miles from the farm I grew up on, in NE MT. Medora, ND was a “go to” for anyone who cared about history and appreciated the local badlands in the 1940s and 50s – it could be done in one long day, with a picnic basket – to view the buildings and land that Teddy enjoyed. I remember going there in the very early 1950s.
My dad, who was born in 1897, appreciated Teddy a great deal. And had nothing but disdain and disgust for Franklin Delano.
I am sad (and disgusted with myself) having been born and raised in North Dakota and have never been to Medora. I have been to a great many places in the state, from Williston to Pembina, Bowman, Dickinson and Grand Forks and Fargo, but never to Medora.
I am actually shocked today to see some of the countryside in the video and cannot believe I have driven within 30 miles of Medora, and never made the effort to go.
Do it. You will love it. There is a wonderful overview and visitors’ center right off I-94 now, of course. You actually may encounter bison in the parking lot – it occasionally happens. It’s wonderful country.
I was born in Williston in 1944. Our farm was 9 miles outside of Culbertson. I was the only one of seven siblings not born at home. I guess by that time, Mom was just tired and figured she could use the several days in the hospital while the older ones took care of the home front.
Here’s a “Big Rig Travels” video that starts at Bismarck and runs west – to Wibaux, MT. It will take you right through by Medora, through Theodore Roosevelt National Park if you watch the whole thing. The town of Medora is a bit off I-94 so not visible on the video. This is exactly what Highway 2 looks like which runs parallel and further north (through Williston), which is my home ground.
One time I was playing this video when my now 58 year old son was here – he stopped and watched the endless, treeless prairie rolling by and finally said, “Mom – you sure this thing isn’t playing on a loop?” I reminded him I was the one who taught him how to use a spoon and that he should tread carefully.
Small world. I have a sister that lives in Williston now, but we grew up further east and north near the Turtle Mountains. I drove through there the last time I visited her, but went into Montana and south through Glendive.
I’ve also driven north through Bowman (lots of grassland), but turned off at Belfield to go through Dickinson to get home. Medora is just a little bit west of there, but I wanted to get home. I believe that part of the highway is known as the Enchanted Highway.
I’ve also wanted to get to Wibaux just to see it because of the movie Knockaround Guys with Vin Diesel and Barry Pepper, but it was actually filmed in Glendive and Glasgow.
Belfield through Dickinson – yes! More than once when we lived in SoCal, I flew into Bismarck (long story there) and drove then to Sidney (mom was in residential care there)…..so once I got west of Dickinson, I’d take the Belfield exit, wind up through the grasslands there and find my way on some mysterious two lane roads into the “back door” to Sidney…..here’s the thing: somewhere on that deserted road after leaving I-94 and headed north, there was the classic “old country church along the side of the road” – I have learned over the decades that those old country churches are (1) nearly always unlocked and (2) nearly always have an old organ that still functions–at some level.
I would always stop at that one, go inside, tell the old church, “Hey, I’m here. Wanna do a little worship again, old church?” So the old church and I would raise the rafters with some “The Church’s One Foundation”, “How Great Thou Art!” or “What a Friend We Have in Jesus” – and I would somehow know that the Most Holy God noticed that there were sounds of worship coming, once again, from that little building down there on that great big prairie.
I found the same old churches along vast country roads in Montana – in Wyoming – anywhere we ever drove across the decades – always looked for the roads less traveled when we could – always found them – and nearly always found an old, empty, open church to spend some time in.
My maternal grandparents homesteaded land east of Plentywood around 1908, having arrived from Denmark and spent a few years in Racine, Wisconsin to put enough cash together for a plow and some horses, etc. They were in the Westby area – somewhere out in the prairie. They raised 13 children in a small pioneer home – 11 girls and 2 boys. You know he was praying for boys to help with the farming, but he kept thanking God for all his blessings–and the girls learned to do a lot of the farm chores! My mother told me stories of she and one sister having the tasking of hooking up the team of horses to take wagon load(s) of grain into the elevator.
My paternal grandparents came from Denmark about the same time, but made their way to their homestead NE of Culbertson via Nebraska (for 8-9 years) – my father was born in Nebraska. The farm I grew up on was one mile from the homestead farm.
I grew up 80 miles northeast of Minot, but spent a bit of time there either going to the doctor when I was little, getting groceries with Mom or playing hockey.
John Chisum
July 1, 2026 8:14 pm
The person that designed this Library is genius. The entire structure blends right in with the surroundings. The entrance is compacted and stacked dirt. It looks amazing and it is fitting for President Theodore Roosevelt, given his conservationist views.
Completely opposite of the concrete outhouse they built in Chicago for President 0.
“… Roosevelt’s special relationship with Jews was forged during his time serving as police commissioner in New York City, a post he assumed in 1894. He admired the attempts of immigrants to better their lot through hard work, paying tribute to their physical strength, referring to “the indoor Jew of fine bodily powers who had taken to boxing, wrestling and the like.” (Roosevelt himself had worked hard to transform himself from a weak, sickly child into the rugged cowboy of legend, and he appreciated that effort in others.) In his autobiography, he wrote of having had “experience after experience of the excellent service done — an excellent work needing nerve and hardihood, an excellent work of what I might call the Maccabee-type in the Police Department under me by police officers of Jewish extraction.”
Roosevelt exhibited evidence of the shrewd political tactician he would become while still commissioner when members of the Jewish community asked him to ban rallies featuring an anti-Semitic German preacher, Hermann Ahlwardt. “Of course, I told them I could not — that the right of free speech must be maintained unless he incited them to riot,” Roosevelt wrote. “On thinking it over, however, it occurred to me that there was one way in which I could undo most of the mischief he was trying to do.” Roosevelt assigned several dozen Jewish police officers to protect Ahlwardt, thus “mak[ing] him ridiculous.”” ……..
ENJOYED the VIDEO of the ROUGH RIDERS Escorting THE BEAST up the Hill !
https://xcancel.com/nicksortor/status/2072376186433307021
❤️❤️❤️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Kat has Been Thru A LOT. Prayers for Her Contentment and Her Family
What has Kat been through? I guess I missed something. She was just recently on Jesse. All seemed normal.
Breast cancer. I believe she had double mastectomy.
RobJay, thank you. I did not know.
I love this so much!!! Thank you for sharing.
I bet President Trump loved it too!
🦅🇺🇸✝️❤️🐎🐎🐎
Teddy Roosevelt was another who accidentally became president and caused the establishment to panic.
It was no accident, and as he was emplaced by the establishment into the Vice-President slot on the 1900 ticket, in time for McKinley’s 1901 assassination, I’m sure there was no panic. He was to McKinley, what HW Bush was to Reagan, the person to be controlled, to replace the one who couldn’t.
That is not to say that Teddy didn’t do some great things for America, but McKinley was the Trump of the turn of the century, and would have led the United States on a path that would have delayed or prevented the disaster of 1913, and the entry of the US into WWI, whereas Teddy facilitated it.
Truly, truly, I’ve always thought PDJT to be most like TR!
stop it/ the only similarity is their views on immigration
Someone knows of a person that has year 1900 family photo (15-20 people)
that includes Mr. Roosevelt in the group.
Cameras were not very common at the time.
I wonder if the library would be interested in a copy?
1900…wow..
I think they would be interested.
yes,
I showed someone the photograph the other day,
and got a similar response. : )
(and family great grandpa and grandma are also in the photo -wearing their Sunday best. )
They, Edith and T R traveled by surrey / horse.
Definitely interesting. I’m sure the library would be interested.
These days one can have a copy made of old photographs. The original can be sent off and the copy kept with a good story to tell.
My dad, b. 1901, has a family photo when he was about 6 years old. I didn’t know they were that rare.
Well, wait…cameras and photography go back to the war between the states. By 1900 there were photography studios in every city and in the larger towns.
Also have an 1898 farm photo of family ( not with T R )
A town was maybe an hour away by horse.
( i.e. more preplanning needed etc., not as instant as today )
Imho
Why so belated to build Teddy library?
Because Teddy hasn’t been around to solicit donors????
Here’s the CEO’s Letter on the Library Concept –
https://www.trlibrary.com/about/message-from-the-ceo
Historical Picture of a Young Teddy Roosevelt watching the Funeral Procession for Abraham Lincoln.
Teddy is looking out the Window of His Grand Father’s House from an Upstairs Window down on Broadway.
DESTINY is an OPPORTUNITY That HAS BEEN SEIZED and Used PROPERLY
https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2010/11/09/teddy-roosevelt-and-abraham-lincoln-in-the-same-photo/
I think I read years ago a degrees of separation to founding fathers about this photo. Roosevelt at Lincolns funeral. Lincoln a youngster when some founding fathers alive. And young John Kennedy watched Teddy Roosevelts funeral as Joseph Kennedy was of course much in DC and was in those circles.
My great grandmother remembered seeing President Lincoln at one of his train stops when she was four years old. She lived to be 112.
Thank you, what a great photo! 🇺🇸🦅✝️
GOTTA BE HOT
Hope that Guy that had to Sit Gets Hydrated SOON !
One of the BAD THINGS in STANDING for So Long in Formation –
NO Air Circulation and HAVE TO FLEX Your Knees to Keep the Blood Flowing
What a great video-
A wonderful tribute and celebration by the best of America.
God bless Pres. Trump.
👍
Watched it all live, he is awesome!
Teddy Roosevelt one of my most admired Presidents.
WTG President Trump!
Home run 🙂 MAGA
I learned a lot more about Teddy Roosevelt than I ever knew.
THIS SPEECH to the Catholic Knights of Columbus
Reminds me of My ALLIGANCE and PRIORITIES to the Nation and OUR Ancestors
NO ROOM FOR ” The Hyphenated American ” Speech
https://www.whatsoproudlywehail.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Roosevelt_Americanism.pdf
I’ve been to Medora and TR National Park. Very beautiful place and underrated.
Very mixed feelings about TR. Really like the rough and tumble personality, championing conservation, the legend of the muckraker/trust buster. However, his actions, running as a spoiler on the Bull Moose party ticket led to the election of Woodrow Wilson, one of the worst presidents in US history.
ROSS PEROT
Come to MIND ?
PRINCIPLES … SOMETIMES a BUSINESSMAN HAS TO BE CHOSEN OVER a CIA SPOOK
or
a CONSERVATIONIST / ANTI – BIG BUSINESS over a ” Machine Politician “
My Great Grandfather was a Rough Rider. Was in the Spanish American war.
One of my favorite Presidents. McKinley chose him for VP because the big wigs in New York didn’t like him and wanted him out of there. The rest is history. It has a familiar tone to it.
Bully!
Compare the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library to the abomination Obama just built for himself.
The Project | Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library
Have a Who, album. WHO’s Next.
Front cover is same as the B.Obama library.
One of the best albums ever and yes that cover is fitting.
Very fitting…
And the Obama fake library should be treated exactly the same way as the Who treated that monolith in the photo.
HAT TIP to POTUS Thomas Jefferson –
” “The Constitution… meant that its coordinate branches should be checks on each other. But the opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves in their own sphere of action but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch.” –Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, 1804. ME 11:51 ”
https://famguardian.org/Subjects/Politics/ThomasJefferson/jeff1030.htm
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” — John Adams
The Obama abomination is not a presidential library because he is keeping all of his presidential records under lock and key at the National Archives. The abomination is only some sort of Obama museum, but interviews of many regular people who witnessed the opening ceremony, but who were not important enough to get invited into the event, could not identify any Obama accomplishments, so what will be in that huge building? Mostly emptiness it would seem, but that is a pretty good reflection of the man himself.
I wonder if all his secret files are buried in the concrete of that obnoxious building?
BTW Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. (President TR’s son) was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for heroism on Utah Beach, leading the first wave of the assault and then remaining on the beach, guiding follow-on waves across the beach under withering enemy fire.
https://www.cmohs.org/news-events/medal-of-honor-recipient-profile/theodore-roosevelt-jr/
President Theodore Roosevelt also was awarded the MOH for the Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill in Cuba, July 1, 1898. https://www.cmohs.org/recipients/theodore-roosevelt
The only other father/son winners of the MOH are Arthur and Douglas MacArthur.
TR Jr. died from a heart attack a few weeks later.
The location POTUS went to today is 150 miles from the farm I grew up on, in NE MT. Medora, ND was a “go to” for anyone who cared about history and appreciated the local badlands in the 1940s and 50s – it could be done in one long day, with a picnic basket – to view the buildings and land that Teddy enjoyed. I remember going there in the very early 1950s.
My dad, who was born in 1897, appreciated Teddy a great deal. And had nothing but disdain and disgust for Franklin Delano.
Mailboxes and Old Barns.. ❤️
I am sad (and disgusted with myself) having been born and raised in North Dakota and have never been to Medora. I have been to a great many places in the state, from Williston to Pembina, Bowman, Dickinson and Grand Forks and Fargo, but never to Medora.
I am actually shocked today to see some of the countryside in the video and cannot believe I have driven within 30 miles of Medora, and never made the effort to go.
That has changed and trip planning is beginning.
Do it. You will love it. There is a wonderful overview and visitors’ center right off I-94 now, of course. You actually may encounter bison in the parking lot – it occasionally happens. It’s wonderful country.
I was born in Williston in 1944. Our farm was 9 miles outside of Culbertson. I was the only one of seven siblings not born at home. I guess by that time, Mom was just tired and figured she could use the several days in the hospital while the older ones took care of the home front.
Here’s a “Big Rig Travels” video that starts at Bismarck and runs west – to Wibaux, MT. It will take you right through by Medora, through Theodore Roosevelt National Park if you watch the whole thing. The town of Medora is a bit off I-94 so not visible on the video. This is exactly what Highway 2 looks like which runs parallel and further north (through Williston), which is my home ground.
One time I was playing this video when my now 58 year old son was here – he stopped and watched the endless, treeless prairie rolling by and finally said, “Mom – you sure this thing isn’t playing on a loop?” I reminded him I was the one who taught him how to use a spoon and that he should tread carefully.
Small world. I have a sister that lives in Williston now, but we grew up further east and north near the Turtle Mountains. I drove through there the last time I visited her, but went into Montana and south through Glendive.
I’ve also driven north through Bowman (lots of grassland), but turned off at Belfield to go through Dickinson to get home. Medora is just a little bit west of there, but I wanted to get home. I believe that part of the highway is known as the Enchanted Highway.
I’ve also wanted to get to Wibaux just to see it because of the movie Knockaround Guys with Vin Diesel and Barry Pepper, but it was actually filmed in Glendive and Glasgow.
Belfield through Dickinson – yes! More than once when we lived in SoCal, I flew into Bismarck (long story there) and drove then to Sidney (mom was in residential care there)…..so once I got west of Dickinson, I’d take the Belfield exit, wind up through the grasslands there and find my way on some mysterious two lane roads into the “back door” to Sidney…..here’s the thing: somewhere on that deserted road after leaving I-94 and headed north, there was the classic “old country church along the side of the road” – I have learned over the decades that those old country churches are (1) nearly always unlocked and (2) nearly always have an old organ that still functions–at some level.
I would always stop at that one, go inside, tell the old church, “Hey, I’m here. Wanna do a little worship again, old church?” So the old church and I would raise the rafters with some “The Church’s One Foundation”, “How Great Thou Art!” or “What a Friend We Have in Jesus” – and I would somehow know that the Most Holy God noticed that there were sounds of worship coming, once again, from that little building down there on that great big prairie.
I found the same old churches along vast country roads in Montana – in Wyoming – anywhere we ever drove across the decades – always looked for the roads less traveled when we could – always found them – and nearly always found an old, empty, open church to spend some time in.
Several years ago one of our close friends was facilities manager for the Medora Foundation.
Another of our friends is “one of the Teddies” who performs out there and around the country.
We’ve spent many wonderful days with them out there. There is a vibe that is so compelling.
Love of country, stunning landscapes, cowboy culture, history. What’s not to love?
My husband is from Plentywood. I am from Minot. I loved going to Medora when I was growing up.
My maternal grandparents homesteaded land east of Plentywood around 1908, having arrived from Denmark and spent a few years in Racine, Wisconsin to put enough cash together for a plow and some horses, etc. They were in the Westby area – somewhere out in the prairie. They raised 13 children in a small pioneer home – 11 girls and 2 boys. You know he was praying for boys to help with the farming, but he kept thanking God for all his blessings–and the girls learned to do a lot of the farm chores! My mother told me stories of she and one sister having the tasking of hooking up the team of horses to take wagon load(s) of grain into the elevator.
My paternal grandparents came from Denmark about the same time, but made their way to their homestead NE of Culbertson via Nebraska (for 8-9 years) – my father was born in Nebraska. The farm I grew up on was one mile from the homestead farm.
I grew up 80 miles northeast of Minot, but spent a bit of time there either going to the doctor when I was little, getting groceries with Mom or playing hockey.
The person that designed this Library is genius. The entire structure blends right in with the surroundings. The entrance is compacted and stacked dirt. It looks amazing and it is fitting for President Theodore Roosevelt, given his conservationist views.
Completely opposite of the concrete outhouse they built in Chicago for President 0.
It’s sod. The early homesteaders had to build homes out of sod as there were no trees on the prairie.
I really like that guy!
Dinesh D’Souza
@DineshDSouza
I haven’t seen this footage of the huge crowd for President Trump today in North Dakota anywhere on the news. I wonder why!
Video linked…
Rest in the Vine: “The Secret Jewish History of Teddy Roosevelt” by Seth Rogovoy
“… Roosevelt’s special relationship with Jews was forged during his time serving as police commissioner in New York City, a post he assumed in 1894. He admired the attempts of immigrants to better their lot through hard work, paying tribute to their physical strength, referring to “the indoor Jew of fine bodily powers who had taken to boxing, wrestling and the like.” (Roosevelt himself had worked hard to transform himself from a weak, sickly child into the rugged cowboy of legend, and he appreciated that effort in others.) In his autobiography, he wrote of having had “experience after experience of the excellent service done — an excellent work needing nerve and hardihood, an excellent work of what I might call the Maccabee-type in the Police Department under me by police officers of Jewish extraction.”
Roosevelt exhibited evidence of the shrewd political tactician he would become while still commissioner when members of the Jewish community asked him to ban rallies featuring an anti-Semitic German preacher, Hermann Ahlwardt. “Of course, I told them I could not — that the right of free speech must be maintained unless he incited them to riot,” Roosevelt wrote. “On thinking it over, however, it occurred to me that there was one way in which I could undo most of the mischief he was trying to do.” Roosevelt assigned several dozen Jewish police officers to protect Ahlwardt, thus “mak[ing] him ridiculous.”” ……..