Roosevelt, Tweed

Tweed Roosevelt recounts Theodore Roosevelt’s history with the United States Navy, highlighting his 1905 trip onboard the submarine USS Plunger. Roosevelt also gives a brief history of the naval ships named after his great grandfather, including a troop transport and a ballistic missile submarine. Most of the essay is devoted to a description of Roosevelt’s two day visit to the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt. He describes the flight out to the carrier, watching air operations during the day and night, and the living conditions for the crew. Roosevelt compares life onboard the carrier to a small college, a Roman garrison, and to a fictional “bizarre world.”

Eleven photographs populate the article, including ones of the Plunger, the troop transport, and the carrier, along with five showing aircraft landing and launching from the deck of the USS Theodore Roosevelt.

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Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Tweed Roosevelt describes the collaboration between President Theodore Roosevelt and the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens to improve the design and appearance of American coins. In doing so, Tweed Roosevelt notes the publication of Michael F. Moran’s book, Striking Change, that chronicles the combined efforts of the president and the sculptor. Tweed Roosevelt highlights his family’s connection to the twenty dollar gold coin designed by Saint-Gaudens, noting that his aunt, Eleanor Butler Roosevelt, and his grandfather, Archibald Roosevelt, both had examples of these coins.

Photographs of Tweed Roosevelt and Saint-Gaudens appear in the essay along with photographs of one of Saint-Gaudens’s sculptures and both sides of the twenty dollar gold coin.

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Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Tweed Roosevelt asks why there has been so little consideration of Theodore Roosevelt’s record as a conservationist. He reviews some of the major biographies and histories of Roosevelt and his time and finds that their examination of Roosevelt as a conservationist is scanty at best. Tweed Roosevelt identifies Roosevelt’s father, Theodore Roosevelt, and his uncle, Robert Barnwall Roosevelt, as important figures in shaping Roosevelt’s interest in the natural world, and he surveys the actions taken by Roosevelt as Governor of New York and President of the United States to safeguard rivers, forests, birds, and natural wonders such as the Grand Canyon. 

 

Two photographs of Theodore Roosevelt and one of Robert Barnwall Roosevelt supplement the text. 

Tweed Roosevelt briefly describes the life and career of historian Stephen E. Ambrose who died shortly before he was scheduled to appear at the annual meeting of the Theodore Roosevelt Association in October 2002. Roosevelt notes some of the many topics Ambrose studied and wrote about, and he highlights Ambrose’s generosity, especially to the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans which Ambrose founded. 

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2002-10-19