Teddy Roosevelt: Making HayWhile campaigning for the 1904 presidential election one day, Theodore Roosevelt was visited at his home in Oyster Bay, Long Island by a delegation from out of state. The President met them with his coat off and his sleeves rolled up. "Ah, gentlemen," he said, "come down to the barn and we will talk while I do some work."
Arriving at the barn, Roosevelt picked up a pitchfork and looked around for the hay. Then he called out to his son. "John, where's all the hay?" "Sorry, sir," John called down from the hayloft. "I ain't had time to toss it back down again after you pitched it up while the Iowa folks [another delegation] were here!"
Roosevelt, Theodore [Teddy] (1858-1919) American politician, governor of New York (1899–1900), Vice President (1901) under William McKinley, 26th president of the United States (1901-1909), Nobel Prize recipient (Peace, 1906) [noted for his heroism during the Spanish-American War, his antitrust regulation, his role in the construction of the Panama Canal, his mediation in the Russo-Japanese War, his "Square Deal" program (to improve the lot of ordinary citizens), and his foreign policy (encapsulated in his dictum: "Speak softly and carry a big stick")]
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