American Decades

Speech

By: Theodore Roosevelt

Date: August 31, 1910

Source: Roosevelt, Theodore. "The New Nationalism." The Program in Presidential Rhetoric Speech Archive. Available online at http://www.tamu.edu/scom/pres/speeches/trnew.html; website home page: http://www.tamu.edu (accessed January 18, 2003).

About the Author: Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) was born in New York City, the seventh-generation Roosevelt to be born in Manhattan. He was a sickly child, suffering from chronic asthma, but he exhibited an iron-willed determination to lead "the Strenuous Life." A graduate of Harvard, he was an accomplished historian, boxer, cowboy, war hero, sportsman, reformer, and two-term president (served 1901–1909).

Introduction

In 1901, following the death of William McKinley...