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Theodore Roosevelt Accomplishments

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Teddy Roosevelt wasn’t only just the 26th president of the USA, and one of the biggest environmentalists to this very day, he also did many other things that would make him worthy of getting put on a stamp. Roosevelt loved his country as much as he loved his own wife, and that's the reason why he wanted to keep the US in as good, or in even better, condition as it was when he first got into office. He thought that this country was worth its weight in gold and that we should enjoy it while we can instead of destroying it for different purposes."We have fallen heirs to the most glorious heritage a people ever received, and each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune." - Theodore Roosevelt.
First off, after President William McKinley was assassinated, Roosevelt became the 26th president, and he also became the youngest man to ever become president (42 years and 322 …show more content…

Although -after he declined- he realized the mistake he made and he vowed how wouldn’t turn an offer like that down again. Then after William Lafayette Strong won the mayoral election in 1894 and he gave Teddy a position as the New York Police Department’s commissioner. “The New York Police Department (NYPD) was reputed as one of the most corrupt in America; the NYPD's history division records that Roosevelt was ‘an iron-willed leader of unimpeachable honesty, (who) brought a reforming zeal to the New York City Police Commission in 1895.’” Through his efforts, Teddy implemented annual physical and, often, firearm inspections, and he implemented over 1,600 new recruits based on their mental and physical capabilities, regardless of what political party they were associated

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