Summary Analysis Paper on Teddy Roosevelt

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elected by the people of the country. On the east portico of the Capitol Building he was sworn in by Chief Justice Melville Fuller. This was to be Roosevelt's first Inaugural Address. In attendance was a diverse group of people, including Native Americans, cowboys, students, and miners. Roosevelt needed to prepare a speech that delivered a sense of trust, unity, and strength for the American People. He had done a great deal in his first term and expectations were high, the faith and belief in his administration was at stake, and Roosevelt had a lot he still wanted to do.
The opening of the speech set the tone and weight for the rest of the words to follow.

"MY fellow-citizens, no people on earth have more cause to be thankful than ours, and this is said reverently, in no spirit of boastfulness in our own strength, but with gratitude to the Giver of Good who has blessed us with the conditions which have enabled us to achieve so large a measure of well-being and of happiness ...

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stated in his speech with these lines, "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. We must show not only in our words, but in our deeds, that we are earnestly desirous of securing their good will by acting toward them in a spirit of just and generous recognition of all their rights" (Roosevelt).
Some of Roosevelt's speech while accepted at the time would have proven disastrous in the era we now live in. Roosevelt, with his "Big Stick", political ...

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