Pies: President Theodore Roosevelt's Bull Terrier Pete ripped the pants off French Ambassador Jules Jusserand

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Pete was a pet dog belonging to United States president Theodore Roosevelt. He was one of many presidential pets during Roosevelt's presidency. He was reported to be a Bull Terrier, though other reports have said he was a Boston Bull Terrier or bulldog. Pete was reported to be Theodore Roosevelt's favorite of his dogs. Pete chased and bit a number of people on numerous occasions during his time living at the White House. He bit policemen on a number of occasions. In a biting incident, Pete tore the trousers of Secretary of the Interior James Rudolph Garfield. In another incident, Pete was reported to have chased George B. Cortelyou, causing Cortelyou to seek refuge by climbing a tree. He wa…

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"Ambassador J. J. Jusserand, Theodore Roosevelt, and Franco-American Relations, 1903-1909." In Theodore Roosevelt—Many-Sided American, Natalie A. Naylor, Douglas Brinkley, and John Allen Gable, eds., 329-40

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Theodore Roosevelt: Father of a Sporting Nation. Theodore Roosevelt was, in many ways, the father of a sporting nation. Roosevelt, more than any president before, and perhaps since, sought to bind the presidency to the ideas of masculinity and athleticism. Roosevelt felt that the nation needed to reflect these virtues if it were to succeed in rising further as a great power on the world stage. However, this chapter shows the other side of Roosevelt’s paternal role, by exploring his aims for his own children and their contemporaries. This chapter unpicks a largely ignored speech by Roosevelt at Harvard in order to unravel the wider significance of Roosevelt’s vision. He sought not only to pr…

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The German Ambassador Hermann Speck von Sternburg and Theodore Roosevelt, 1889-1908

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Ambassador in Absentia: George Meyer, William II, and Theodore Roosevelt

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Ambassador in Absentia: George Meyer, William II, and Theodore Roosevelt

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