1900's Media | "The Man with the Muck Rake"

Speech

By: Theodore Roosevelt

Date: April 15, 1906

Source: Roosevelt, Theodore. "The Man With the Muck Rake." April 15, 1906. Available online at Texas A&M University, The Program in Presidential Rhetoric. http://www.tamu.edu/scom/pres/speeches/trmuck.html (accessed May 23, 2003).

About the Author: Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) shaped the modern chief executive's relationship with the press. The youngest U.S. president, he ascended to the office in 1901, at age forty-two, after the assassination of President William McKinley (served 1897–1901). Known for his boundless energy, Roosevelt had already been a rancher, assistant secretary of the navy, governor of New York, assemblyman, and sheriff. He had also written over forty books and had organized his own cavalry regiment in the Spanish-American War (1898)....