![]() A random survey of his achievements might show him mastering German, French, and the contrasted dialects of Harvard and Dakota Territory assembling fossil skeletons with paleontological skill fighting for an amateur boxing championship transcribing birdsong into a private system of phonetics chasing boat thieves with a star on his breast and Tolstoy in his pocket founding a finance club, a stockmen's association, and a hunting-conservation society reading some twenty thousand books and writing fifteen of his own climbing the Matterhorn promulgating a flying machine and becoming a world authority on North American game mammals. Few, if any Americans could match the breadth of his intellect and the strength of his character. ![]() “Yet there was no doubt that Theodore Roosevelt was peculiarly qualified to be President of all the people. ![]()
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