America's Manliest President | The Life & Times of Theodore Roosevelt

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Extra special thanks to Crazy Boris and Danny Heyerman for lending their voices! Boris honestly has one of my favorite animated channels on YouTube, and seeing a genuinely entertaining episodic animated show on YouTube in 2020 is flabbergasting and it makes my heart sing. Check out Dungeon Dynamite if you haven't already: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEmM_zKuTD0&list=PLn4G5-LpUhtON2c0S0prWzoY5jH_Wf2a6&index=2

Footnotes:
0:16 Inspired by this image (not sure who the original illustrator is, if anyone knows please tell me!): https://i.imgur.com/WDi5ZSG.jpg

0:45 He called it the Roosevelt Museum of Natural History

0:58 And also maintaining a high level of fitness and growing out of it as some kids do

1:41 It had to do with saying he'd back a certain candidate and then getting caught as a hypocrite, something like that

1:57 The full story: https://www.nps.gov/thro/learn/historyculture/roosevelts-bar-fight.htm

2:50 This would be when he was part of the famous Rough Riders and fought in the battle of San Juan Hill

3:07 The gold fish's name is McKinley and the silver one's name is Bryan. Is it weird to name your pet after your boss or is it just me?

3:38 Just so we're totally, totally clear: He won the Vice Presidential nomination unanimously among party officials

5:14 Watch CGP Grey's video on the subject if you haven't already: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo

5:32 In case you're wondering, the poem is Kubla Khan: or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment

5:41 I just feel like pointing out that this background is Teddy's actual home in New York and I did not add that framed portrait of John Marshal.

Music:
0:00 John Philips Sousa - Globe and Ealge
0:18 Kevin Macleod - Hidden Past
0:26 James Scott - Frog Legs Rag
1:19 Kevin Macleod - Send for the Horses
1:28 Kevin Macleod - Plans in Motion
1:43 Kevin Macleod - Comic Plodding
2:03 James Scott - Frog Legs Rag
3:46 John Philips Sousa - Globe and Ealge
4:47 John Philips Sousa - Globe and Ealge
5:20 Angra - Carolina IV
5:38 John Philips Sousa - Globe and Ealge
5:57 Kevin Macleod - Still Pickin