Theodore Roosevelt: The Old Lion 

lolz! :) I do wish though you had included the association with the "Teddy Bear" toy from the period in America.

People are rude.

You missed the 'F' in Few.

Simon's mispronunciation of Teddy is so bad i can't watch this.

lol - Well, we do know him as Teddy and you have a long history of apologizing for any potential mispronunciation, so it's understandable that people in the US would assume it's another such instance. And this may be my OCD speaking, but... PLEASE SAY TEDDY FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. TEDDY TEDDY TEDDY. Have a nice day :D

That smile was stunning.

Agreed

If you told me he killed a moose and a bear by punching them I'd definitely believe you. He's definitely the kind of guy to throat punch a bear.

@@arthas640 he was also super kind at one point having the chance to kill a bear cub and refusing due to him not having the heart to kill a baby animal this is where "teddy" came from and why the popular toy is called "teddy bears"

@@Cuggaconroyfan30001 I'm imagining Teddy atomic power slamming Mama Bear after getting her in a half Nelson, only to discover the Cubs and adopting them as pets before eventually training them into his own heavy cavalry division/body guard

They killed him in his sleep and bragged about it to the press.

@@NealBones who is they?

@@maxacorn Lmao I'm not sure mate it was meant as a joke

@@NealBones You know too much.

@@NotWhiteRice v funny!

And on the same day that is harsh. Very harsh.

@@liambanloh6972 yeah, small wonder that he upped sticks and spent a few years in his Elcorn ranch in what's now, North Dakota. Indeed, the man himself reflected, "I never would have been President if it wasn't for my experiences in North Dakota,"

And only days later he went back to work

That did slow him down for a while. It hurt him deeply! That is a part of why he went to the Badlands, to clear his head. I worked!

@@paulgibbs7325 nothing helps with loss more than hunting!

*Bullet:* Understandable. Have a nice day.

And the first president to invite a black man into the white house

Theodore Roosevelt a true coward, who shot a Spaniard in Cuba in the back when they retired, after defending the hill for 15 days about 700 Spaniards, without machine guns, before 15,000 attackers; one more example of the cowardice of the Anglo armies. This is the wood of the Anglo heroes

@@marianosanchez3970what the hell do u mean by anglo?

@@ajs6588 Anglo-Saxons, descendants of the English, like history, unadulterated, teaches; pirates and genocides.

@@marianosanchez3970work on your grammar wtf is like history unadulterated, teaches, pirates and genocides u literally just put a bunch of random words no disrespect just confused. and also wtf does his descendant have to do with him and why characterize him based on this group? he is an individual like all the rest of us.

The most presidential president to ever president

The Teddiest Ted to ever Ted.

@jake jones Even more manly then the most interesting man in the world from the Dos Equis Ads?

But with a mustache. So +1

Sorry, back around 20 mins in u show z still of him shooting a "water-buffalo"...wtf is that beast doing in the Dakota Badlands?

Best comment lol

Underrated comment

Press F for the doctor

This is great

Bad Ass!

So before you find out your vision is broken, do you just assume everyone sees like you do?

Przemek Walenty Starek I did, I was about 7 though. I clearly remember exclaiming “wow! Everything looks like it is in HD!”

@@Linnnaeus How could you assume anything else? I didn't get my first glasses until the age of 11 and had no way of knowing that other people didn't have the same issue, after all, you can't see through their eyes.

@@Jxuptosae that is true, but sometimes people will say "hey look at that over there" and you would just not be able to see a thing

I’ve always wondered are they people who have good eyesights award how beautiful and HD the world Is to them

Honestly im pretty sure both Republicans and Democrats would.

@@redswift31 Probably.

redswift31 he'd probably tear off their faces if they don't

Zman Jace Same

I would vote for him. And I'm a die-hard Democrat.

Because he knew what it was like to be weak, he didn't look down on them as much as some

Masculinity is never toxic; what is toxic is your feminist mental disorder.

ToXiC mAsCuLiNiTy 😡 😡

"Toxic-masculinity" has gotta be the corniest bs to ever be thought up to shame a group of people... it should be a term lumped in with sexism and racism. I mean if you say something like that about feminists it would be called sexist... but since its towards men... obviously its ok. Wonderful world we live in... is perfectly ok to be sexist against men and its ok to be racist against whites......... equality right?

Masculinity can't be toxic.

Idk I agree but Andrew Jackson was pretty bad ass as well (even though Jackson was an awful person) dude was wild

some of the best parts of his life got left out: like how he regularly had boxing matches in the white house against any challenger, including professional boxers and army officers. He only stopped when a punch from a captain made him go partially blind in one eye. He also once had a young army officers write him after Teddy had retired complaining about having to ride too many miles each day so Teddy, in his late 60s at that point, rode twice that distance in a day and the guy stopped complaining.

Arthas Menethil teddy died at 60

mark brooks he was 51 at the time

More than a rude, cowardly example of a hero from the USA, who shoots retreating soldiers in the back as he did in Cuba where 700 Spaniards faced 15,000 enemies for 15 days without machine guns, and they make movies for him, if they are the brave ones I do not want to know what the cowards are.

If I was to live anywhere in the United States. It would be there.

No one lives in north dakota its all a conspiracy

@@asapnickybars4693 no idea. Literally all I've done on RU-vid is have an account. Subscribe and watch videos. In fact I've probably only left about 10 comments the whole time I've had an account. But I have had an account since 2009ish

I want to explore all of the USA before Europe, just because I've read so much history on it, and it just attracts me. I've only been in California, Oregon, Washington state, Texas, and Massachusetts, and loved every state! Each is a completely different culture, and each has mind blowing natural parks. I want to go to all of them, then go to all of the museums...

Christine paris medora is a beautiful "old west" type town on the western side of north dakota. The badlands are absolutely breathtaking. During the summer they put on a show called the medora musical. It and the pitchfork fondue beforehand are great! Taking a trip through the park you'll see the bison, wild mustangs, prairie dog towns, and possibly coyotes or a mountain lion. We dont have much in north dakota, but we do love all we do have.

Only the best people have a section called ‘cowboy’ in their life

Trump now takes that honor.

@@gsp49 Trump is up there, but I'm not sure about him being the best. He's still great, just not the best. Not yet anyway.

Trump isn't fit to shine Teddy's shoes.

lost gam3r I don't know about that amigo.

@@gasmonkey1000 He really isn't, Trump can't even compare to Theodore Roosevelt OR Franklin for that matter

Naw, makes him look like a poser.

Bold statement from Salin himself lol

Teddy would challenge Putin to a boxing match he was a real man and a true badass leader

No he wouldnt

I’d beg to disagree.

If they put the other two on horses alongside him, it wouldn't be a problem

Yes a great shame... Someone need to teach those kid some history.

Instead they want to add a victim of police brutality. Altough George Floyd's case is a sign of police discrimination against blacks. It doesnt justify removing one of the best presidents statue, which was made to remember teddy.

@@Jump_Immortal I've always thought of the floyd case as an example of poor police training, as apposed to racism.

@@Grrtmyr23 It's really a can of worms we really shouldnt open. Besides it's late (for me) and im only 12 so i'm, dumb? Idk man. Have a good day or night.

Wow you've swallowed the Kool aide

Let's not forget Trump

​@@lindagreen7640yeah, a guy who denies election results without showing any evidences, and on the 6th of January 2021 say in front of fanatics: we will march on the Capitol, we will march on the Capitol.

​@@dharmagall9082don't worry. New Zealand hasn't forgotten trump😂

I do not have the faintest idea who you are quoting but Roosevelt is famous for writing "Speak softly and carry a big stick".

@@jonatanrullman Bully!

By misquoting it, you missed the whole point 🤦‍♀️

Lmao, how do you even walk softly

Yes

Not only that the most manliest president in history

Yes it's most tedious isn't it. 😊

I do greatly admire him for conserving natural resources in the USA.

Muir is in to many pages an unsong hero.

Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar he was the perfect example of don’t demand from others what you are not willing to do yourself.

Ralf Quint source?

"We can die here like dogs, or we can die up there like men!" Or so its believed he said.

@@TheRealRedRooster Actually, he did indeed take Kettle hill. The more strategically important San Juan Hill however, he did not actually take. Not alone anyhow. He aided in it.

Only thing this gent forgot to mention is that Teddy’s distain of the army’s firearms and therefore, coming from a wealthy class and having money, he bought all his men Winchester Rifles to keep from avoiding jamming and single shot rifles. He believed that cost should not be placed above life

Actually, Teedy (or Teedie) is a nickname he gained in childhood, one which irked him quite a bit. It is why, later in life he greatly disliked being called Teddy, as it reminded him of that childhood nickname.

@@comettamer c'mon people,it's T.D, tee dee.

I love the guy that makes these videos but every time he said “teedee” I wanted to stab myself in the ear.

@@eopain just watched this and yeah I had the same feeling

Additionally, he was not thrilled that the teddy moniker was being used at late date to sell toys. He was a serious person and he felt ridiculed. Can't say I blame him. It never ceases to about and astound me how many people are apparently incapable of speaking a name beyond two syllables. Ben, Benny, Benji, they are all offensive to me for various reasons.

So true.

As it probably should

@@juliet4093

ct92404 I respect my fellow humans, you can try to label me as the bad guy all you want but by and large all I did was suggest respect

@@juliet4093 I mean he literally said "she doesn't like me" "i'm going to change her mind about that" in an old slang way don't make him out to be anything less than a gentlemen

T. Roosevelt was actually more colorful, it portrays him as more pragmatic in his emotions.

Love that book

@@rodrigodiazdevivar6183 I think he is more pragmatic as a politician should be; he allowed more unconventional practices behind the scenes as they would not have had public support.

@@todddougherty9492 Me, too.

@@todddougherty9492 Did you see tv depiction?

Ronald Reagan got shot at and survived as well.

Oh, how poorly this aged 💀

ERB!!! Rough riding down to Cuba, saying what's up bitches!

Now where will I hang a stuffed head of a Winston??? P.S They are coming back

Now where do I Mount the stuffed head of a Winston.

I'm into fitness, digging ditches through isthmus Rough ridin' down to Cuba like "What's up, BITCHES?"

I keep my rhymes pure like my food and drugs.

He really doesn't fit a traditional Hollywood role He was born rich to a very powerful family He was maybe the most masculine president in history He was an avid sportsman And he definitely used our military to do some questionable things. I love his story but I'm not sure that it would be one that would do well if treated honestly.

@@thepatrioticpopulist768 ok but he was also a great proponent of social change invited the first black man ever to the white house appointed the first Jewish cabinet member was the first american ever to win the nobel peace prize for stopping the war and he literally had such horrible asthma in a pre-inhaler era and went on to box in Harvard's team and this is back when Ivy league sports teams were also the pinnacle of their class dude also started the FDA national parks. He is the sole president to genuinely do what is right because it was right he even decided to not run a 3rd time because he didn't "want to become a dictator" like Washington and Lincoln did.

@@Cuggaconroyfan30001 I'm not disagreeing. He would make an excellent character. But I dont think he could be portrayed honestly. They would either take all of the above mentioned away or treat him as a villain

@@thepatrioticpopulist768 maybe idk TR is one of the presidents nobody wants to demonize one of the most beloved figures in our history.

God, guns, and guitars Have you seen The Wind and The Lion by John Milius? Sean Connery plays a Bedouin chief who kidnaps and American woman. President TR corresponds with the bedouin trying to negotiate her release. Based on a true story, very moving portrait of TR and the respect he develops for his adversary

I dont know

I did not know that it's disgusting what they're to our Country

"and I use it too! Now where are the babies? I am wild about children!"

@@NathanielEssex1849 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@@NathanielEssex1849 He bwoke my widdle hand! The mean man bwoke my widdle hand!

@@@Bluesit32 It's actually, "Yow! The man bit my wittle nose! The bad man bit my wittle nose!" then the women start beating up Yosemite Sam "You ought to be horse whipped! Run out of town!"

@@NathanielEssex1849 Right, right...the Widdle hand one was from the Easter cartoon...

"Bang" Franklin.

Craig Colby or too old. Remember he was born in 1706

America's first pimp. God bless that fucking man

Yes! * takes note* As much as you want to protect your kid as a parent... you realize that you won't ever be able to be there all the time. So there comes a time when you have to learn to defend yourself.

A worthy goal friend. Have you considered that time honored fraternity he was a member of?

I tought he was saying tiddy

Teedy and Mahattan, New York City

I think the it was pronounced was a nickname that was given to Roosevelt as a kid.

Meto

3,4- Methylenedioxy why dont you just shut up and listen. U may learn something

I think it's pretty well accepted that the Buffalo soldiers were badasses. Perhaps the most Teddy Roosevelt group of men that weren't ACTUALLY Teddy Roosevelt. True American heros by any measure.

Source?

@@kevinhamilton9920 Jerome Tuccile wrote a book called the roughest riders. It’s about the events of the Spanish American war that was documented by both journalists and army officials alike. There was only about 500 rough riders the majority of them being cowboys, Indians, and Roosevelt’s Ivy League college buddies. They were not soldiers and not used to fighting in formation and in the first battle they lost 150 men, so almost half. The Buffalo Soldiers were sent into help aid them up the hill. Roosevelt himself gave credit to the Buffalo Soldiers right after the war but then years later he went back and just lied about everything to make himself look like the hero he wasn’t.

Theodore Roosevelt loved boxing. His favorite boxer was John L Sullivan.

Mine too! Bull Moose forever!

Best President the world will ever have

Wasn't he racist though or am I wrong once again.

@@sirwaylonthe1st239 He was a bit prejudicial, yes, but in context of his time and class (which I think matters a lot), he was very progressive on race relations. He had some views on differences between races that would SURELY be ridiculed today, yes, but he was pretty good overall. He actually came to believe in equality for black Americans in earnest after they fought with him in Cuba, as he reasoned that anyone willing to die the same death for their country as any white person should have the same other rights as well. He also believed that their equality was inevitable and appointed some black officials to Federal office. He probably could've done more, but that's true for nearly everyone. Unfortunately, while he did a LOT of good for racial issues, he was still a product of his time (and wealthy birth) and would use very us/them language to talk about black people. Honestly, if you could put his views on a stamp, his mentality was this: "It'd be better for us and them if slavery hadn't brought them over from Africa to begin with, but that happened, so we have to deal with them, and we should give them a fair deal in the process." Which isn't exactly "woke" haha ... but again, in context of the time, he was still *very* progressive. In fact, a LOT of conservative politicians in his day said that he was empowering black people too much and making them feel too emboldened. Soooo, my general rule of thumb for politicians from that era is "Sure, he was a little bit prejudiced, but if he pissed off the KKK, then he was probably doing something right."

@@rhet1016 ok then, but didn't he hate native Americans though, or was he progressive on that as well?

lol

Whatever s*** you throw at me, I'll just return to sender. I'll battle to the end and I will never surrender.

@@phantomlover1467 WHO WON? WHO'S NEXT? YOU DECIDE! EPIC RAP BATTLES OF HISTORY! *awkward dancing*

That battle was the greatest display of testosterone to ever behold the earth

BULLY!!!!!!!!! A CHALLENGE!!!!!! I LOVE COMPETITION!!! NOW WERE WOULD I MOUNT THE STUFFED HEAD OF A WINSTON......

Yup it was an African water buffalo not a North American bison must not be a picture or he doesn’t know animals. He left a bunch of interesting details about his life out as well

Erock Stoenescu his writers did so he probably didn’t add much more as they already work hard as is tho yea it is unfortunate some was left out

Amen 🙏🙏🙏

But why?

Alice was a handful. Questioned by reporters once about Alice's antics He said, " I must run the country and control Alice. But I cannot do both." She smoked and drank in public and even had a child from an affair.

No, it doesn’t.

R/wooooosh

@@johnreid2221 no it doesn't

I mean, you pretty much have to be. While he didn't go from rag to riches, he certainly went from sickly to the picture of health through sheer determination and hard work.

As a Canadian. Im more interested in US history more than anything

Your Mama same more than Canadian atleast

Richard Nixon wooing racist Southern Democratic’s (but let’s be honest, they were at heart more racist than Democrat) after the Civil Rights moment.

He wasn't really a Republican, as the Republican party during that time actually hated him.

It's long, long past time people understood something: it's not that republicans have ceased to care about the rights (or the fortunes) of the underprivileged -- it's that we simply don't agree the policies advanced by liberal Democrats are the best way to advance or protect those things.

@@tylergidley1014 He believed in the side of 'What was Good for America' as he went for both sides and neither side at the same time because he had things that he believed in that the Republican party did not, and he gave Franklin his blessing to join the Democratic party because he knew his cousin would do the same.

The parties literally switched

Thank scared fat mom's for that

Sadly that's because of our society. Feeding us constant stimuli, fast, easy, with no work to get it. Its everywhere. Its no wonder kids dont want to be active for their chemical releases when they can get the same dopamine release from sitting on a couch, or eating fastfood. The kids are really just the victims of consumer culture.

well yeah, there was abundant nature when he was a kid. Go take a look at what most of america looks like. Strip malls and corporate stores everywhere, crowded overpopulated cities, lack of funding for parks and recreation because we have an unhealthy obsession with police funding etc. Kids aren't outside because most of the time being outside sucks.

The left would call him a Nazi nowadays.

@@jayhrafn3644 he hated the Republicans so much, he created his own party.

@Juan Ayala Wrong. He hated *both* parties so much he created his own party. He was after all the *Republican* president. But after being dissatisfied with and I quote: "their obsession with competing with those jackasses"(the Democrats, whose symbol is *literally the ass*) he left the party and founded the Bullmoose party, which was literally a mockery of the Republican and Democratic parties, who have the Elephant and the Ass as their symbols respectively. His party was designed to eliminate the party system in general and vouched for "common sense" above "the petty politicking and power mongering" that the other two parties had. He hated loathed the welfare system that many were attempting to implement, he despised what he called "hypenated Americanism" in other-words if you demonized America and professed that your culture was better after coming to the United States, you *really* pissed Teddy Roosevelt off. "We have no room in this country for half-assed Americans. If you meet someone who says they are an American and something else also, they aren't an American at all." This came from his *extreme* hatred of the German sympathizers during WW1, He *literally* called them *TRAITORS* and wanted them to be deported *TO THE FRONT OF THE WAR* "Anyone who puts the needs of their so called "homeland" above the needs of their actual adoptive family is someone I don't want at my side." "You don't go to heaven and complain about missing your chance to stay in hell." as he put it. He also believed that and I quote; "Every immigrant should have 5 years to learn the english language or be deported." SO no. He would be a BULLMOOSE party member today, but he *was* a Republican. He was just very... Unorthodox. And very refreshing for the time. Don't rewrite history just because you don't get to brag about how fucking awesome of a president he was, and pretend that he was some kind of democrat.

Juan Ayala I think he means to way Trump is unjustly treated nowadays

@@jayhrafn3644 Maybe. But the right would certainly call him a tree-hugging commie.

Happy birthday 🎂

Micheal Collins is not an important historical figure when you compare him to others who have been profiled here. I'm Irish by the way

The astronaut of the Irish leader?

In a way, it’s because of the Old Lion that we were stuck with Wilson. Wilson only lucked out because of the GOP-Progressive split. Had Roosevelt won the GOP nomination, he would’ve crushed Wilson. Had he not opposed Taft, then Taft would’ve beaten Wilson.

@@wilji1090 I know. That's why I wish I could go back in time and warn him.