The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

As a child Roosevelt collected stamps and developed a passionate interest in ornithology.

Johnson, exasperated by Rayburn’s continued failure to understand the new realities, wrote the Speaker that “these $200 driblets will not get the job done.” What was needed, Johnson said, was to “select a ‘minute man’ group of thirty men, each of whom should” raise $5,000, for a total of $150,000…. “This should be done between now and next Wednesda

Although as the champion of the American people, TR had campaigned for almost eight years against economic injustice, his victories—at least his domestic victories—were generally achieved by the exercise of his executive authority. He had managed to broaden that authority, but only to the point at which it conflicted with legislative power. When he

Roosevelt became the leading citizen of Merriweather County, thrilled at his exposure to the life of ordinary people in rural Georgia.

his disheartened countrymen, soothe the animosity of his generals, and mediate among members of his often contentious administration.

A social conservative by instinct and upbringing, he did more to alter the relationship between ordinary citizens and their government than any other American.