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THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S BIRTHPLACE 2

HOUSE IN WHICH THEODORE ROOSEVELT ROOMED WHILE AT HARVARD 14

THEODORE ROOSEVELT AT GRADUATION, 1880 20

MISS ALICE LEE ROOSEVELT 36

EDITH KERMIT ROOSEVELT 66

THEODORE ROOSEVELT AS A ROUGH RIDER 118

COLONEL ROOSEVELT AT MONTAUK POINT 176

THE ROOSEVELT HOMESTEAD AT OYSTER BAY 192

THEODORE ROOSEVELT 202

PRESIDENT MCKINLEY AND VICE-PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT 216

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AT HIS DESK 252

THE WHITE HOUSE, SHOWING NEW OFFICES 270

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND CABINET, 1903 276

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT SPEAKING AT THE UNVEILING OF THE
STATUE OF GENERAL SHERMAN 284

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND HIS FAMILY 292

AMERICAN BOYS' LIFE OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT

CHAPTER I

BIRTHPLACE AND ANCESTRY OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT--HIS FATHER'S
PHILANTHROPY--CITY AND COUNTRY HOME--DAYS AT SCHOOL--RELIGIOUS TRAINING

"Our country calls not for the life of ease, but for the life of
strenuous endeavor. The twentieth century looms before us big with the
fate of many nations. If we stand idly by, if we seek merely swollen,
slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests
where men must win at hazard of their lives and at the risk of all they
hold dear, then the bolder and stronger peoples will pass us by and will
win for themselves the domination of the world. Let us therefore boldly
face the life of strife, resolute to do our duty well and manfully;
resolute to uphold righteousness by deed and by word; resolute to be
both honest and brave, to serve high ideals, yet to use practical
methods. Above all, let us not shrink from strife, moral or physical,
within or without the nation, provided that we are certain that the
strife is justified; for it is only through strife, through hard and
dangerous endeavor, that we shall ultimately win the goal of true
national greatness."

These words, taken from President Roosevelt's remarkable speech on "The
St