The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 460 times in 2014. If it were a cable car, it would take about 8 trips to carry that many people.
“Let us, therefore, as a people set our faces resolutely against evil, and with broad charity, with kindliness and good-will toward all men, but with unflinching determination to smite down wrong, strive with all the strength that is given us for righteousness in public and in private life.”
from Proclamation 822 – Thanksgiving Day, 1908
In 1911 the Supreme Court of the United States ruled, in Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States, that Standard Oil must be dissolved under the Sherman Antitrust Act.
The two largest companies formed after the split were the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey which eventually became Exxon, and theStandard Oil Company of New Yorkwhich eventually became Mobil. Exon and Mobil merged in 1999.
So it’s a few day’s late for President’s Day, but here is a short yet interesting video featuring White House curator Bill Allman discussing the creation of one of the most famous presidential portraits of all time, John Singer Sargent’s 1903 painting of TR.
“Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shirk neither. We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its greatness into relations with the other nations of the earth, and we must behave as beseems a people with such responsibilities. Toward all other nations, large and small, our attitude must be one of cordial and sincere friendship.”
Theodore Roosevelt
Inaugural Address March 4, 1905
In a recent survey by the magazine Corporate Knights, Theodore Roosevelt holds the number one spot on the list of greenest U.S. presidents by a wide margin.
The Canadian media company polled 12 environmental groups and asked them to rank the top three greenest U.S. presidents. TR received 8 of twelve first place votes and topped runner-up and EPA creator Richard Nixon by a whopping 13 votes overall.
To view the complete report click here.
Corporate Knights recently partnered with the National Press club to announce the rankings. Their choice for keynote speaker? None other than environmentalist and third-party Presidential candidate Ralph Nader.
On the eve of the GOP Convention, The Washington Post’s Harold Meyerson dares ask the question:”Where is today’s Teddy Roosevelt?”
The 2012 Republican National Convention will be held from August 27 to August 3o in Tampa Florida.
Tampa was the embarkation point for the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry (The Rough Riders) during the Spanish American War in the Spring of 1898.
The Progressive Party chose not to have convention this year.
Okay so I am a day late with this one, but a century go the most successful third party campaign for the Presidency was launched in Chicago. The 1912 Progressive Party ticket of Theodore Roosevelt and Hiram Johnson garnered over 27% of votes cast while receiving 88 electoral votes. Political commentator John Avlon writes that many of the planks of the Progressive Party platform that TR championed are still topical today.
Avalon’s knowledge of the Presidency runs in the family. He is married to Margret Hoover, great granddaughter of Herbert Hoover.
Teddy Roosevelt Speaks 