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Happy Birthday TR!!!

Steve27Steve27 Posts: 13,274 ✭✭✭
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Today is Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt's birthday, and we should all be thankful he chose Augustus Saint-Gaudens to design the 1907 double eagle. It shows what one man can do, vice a commitee (as our coin design is performed today).

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"It's far easier to fight for principles, than to live up to them." Adlai Stevenson

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  • MFHMFH Posts: 11,720 ✭✭✭✭

    Today would have been my Dad's 94th birthday !

    October 27, 1917 --- October 29, 2008

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    My 90th birthday gift to him:

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    Mike Hayes
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  • TorinoCobra71TorinoCobra71 Posts: 8,052 ✭✭✭
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  • PistareenPistareen Posts: 1,505 ✭✭✭
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    Roosevelt was an amazing guy -- a published, well-respected historian and an unrepentant aesthete. It's no wonder he had one of the best looking inaugural medals every produced.

    Engraved by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, this one is in the Smithsonian.
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  • EagleEyeEagleEye Posts: 7,677 ✭✭✭✭✭
    He was born 100 years before me (plus 45 days).
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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,608 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Bully for you, TR. Bully for you.

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  • SoCalBigMarkSoCalBigMark Posts: 2,791 ✭✭✭✭✭
    And TexasRichard!
  • renman95renman95 Posts: 7,037 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Ok, he did one thing right.
  • JustlookingJustlooking Posts: 2,895 ✭
    Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords. You go, TR!
    Let's try not to get upset.
  • CCC2010CCC2010 Posts: 1,997 ✭✭✭
    What the OP said....Happy Birthday TR!
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  • JazzmanJABJazzmanJAB Posts: 1,027 ✭✭✭✭



    H.B.T.R. image
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It sure would be nice if we could eliminate the design committees.... anytime you get a committee working on something, the results are less than desirable due to the compromises and deals struck to arrive at a final product. This is particularly true when it comes to art. Cheers, RickO
  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,133 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Here is the closest "numismatic-like" TR item I have. This hanger is from TR's 1904 presidential campaign. (I wish I had that 1905 inaugural medal by St. Gaudens!)

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    As many of you know I also collect political buttons. Here are few TR related pieces.

    "Rose-velt"

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    "My hat is in the ring!" From TR's 1912 run first in the Republican primaries and than as the Bull Moose (Progressive) Party candidate.

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    Back in the day having a good military record was a great political asset. TR won fame by leading the Rough Riders during the Spanish - American War.

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    And William Howard Taft was TR's right hand man and hand picked successor in 1908. Four years later they would have a major falling out.

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    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • SamByrdSamByrd Posts: 3,131 ✭✭✭✭
    great TR memorabilia. He was the real deal. image

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