Theodore Roosevelt, President

“Theodore Roosevelt, President” was an essay written by Edmund Morris describing the life, and personality of Theodore Roosevelt. Morris starts off by saying the “short order” of Roosevelt’s faults. Roosevelt had decreased the wildlife population in many continents around the world and he acted like he was six years old because he always desired to destroy his opponents.

Roosevelt was one of the first presidents to have a positive outlook on everything, was friendly but also tough and funny. Edmund Morris lists the metaphors that people used to describe Theodore Roosevelt. Some metaphors are “radio active”, “electromagnetic nimbus” “TNT” and “a steam-engine in trousers”. These metaphors describe the president’s physical impact he left on people. His youthfulness, health and handshakes combined helped him give that impression away. “In many ways the quality of his personality was more remarkable than its quantity”, this quote describes how Theodore’s personality was the phenomenon. Theodore was sweet- hearted and affectionate and a lot of people couldn’t resist him. But Theodore also had a side of him that could change your dignity for example he called Woodrow Wilson “a Byzantine Logothete” and called President Castro a “pithecanthropoid” which is a genus consisting of a primate apparently intermediate between man and the existing anthropoid apes but he was laughed after he uttered his insults. Roosevelt never used bad language