Who Am I? Well, I am under 45 years old, love the outdoors and am an avid hunter, am a Republican reformer as I have challenged the Republican establishment, I'm a family member with many children, and was given a VP spot on the national ticket for McKinley's second run at the White House after only serving in the governor's office for less than two years. Unique? Pishaw!Take a look at this below ...
Chicago - August, 1912 in an address before the National Progressive Party.
I believe in a larger use of the governmental power to help remedy industrial wrongs, because it has been borne in on me by actual experience that without the exercise of such power many of the wrongs will go unremedied. I believe in a larger opportunity for the people themselves directly to participate in government and to control their governmental agents, because long experience has taught me that without such control many of their agents will represent them badly. By actual experience in office I have found that, as a rule, I could secure the triumph of the causes in which I most believed, not from the politicians and the men who claim an exceptional right to speak in business and government, but by going over their heads and appealing directly to the people themselves. I am not under the slightest delusion as to any power that during my political career I have at any time possessed. Whatever of power I at any time had, I obtained from the people. I could exercise it only so long as, and to the extent that, the people not merely believed in me, but heartily backed me up. Theodore Roosevelt
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