Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library

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Medora, North Dakota

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Joined October 2016

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This Sunday (8/30), Jenny and Joe Wiegand return for a lighthearted yoga class in the Breezeway. Downward Bull Moose: Yoga with T.R. begins at 9 AM; beginners all welcome, mats provided. Sign up before Sunday at ow.ly/jsOp50ZGijZ. #yoga #presidentiallibrary
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#OTD in 1908, TR signed an order protecting Chase Lake in North Dakota. People had been shooting its pelicans for sport on Sunday afternoons; about fifty birds were left. A local settler had petitioned for it. In 2000: a record 35,466 breeding pelicans. trlibrary.com/tr/conservatio…
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Aug 27
#OTD in 1906, TR ordered the government to adopt 300 simplified spellings — thru, dropt, kist. Congress and the press buried it. "But I am mighty glad I did the thing anyhow." trlibrary.com/tr/presidency/…
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Aug 26
#OTD in 1885, a Mandan grand jury indicted the Marquis de Morès for murder. From jail he wrote to TR: "If you are my enemy I want to know it." TR read it as a duel challenge, said he'd take rifles, then replied: "Most emphatically I am not your enemy." trlibrary.com/tr/badlands-ti…
Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library
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Aug 25
#OTD in 1905, TR took the submarine Plunger to the bottom of Long Island Sound in a storm, and ran her himself. His reason: "I did not like to have the officers and enlisted men think I wanted them to try things I was reluctant to try myself." trlibrary.com/tr/presidency/…