USS Roosevelt (CVN 71) - Naval Cruise Book

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1001! lOOSEVELT 1859 ' is love for 30 work and New York of ' eft New Ota 3 to NYC in xessfully r,tie it Carow, fifive ifviceto onTR3 fvice I. He intion by nst ti ' on; jobs )St took the 1919) ' ought jbiicans tern for fomotions. lilding the 16 to be of itrolof the Firs ' igfrom s work for flOf out of heir hair and a wish to exploit his vote-getting vigor. Their solution: bury him in the vice presidency. TR became the ' unning mate of President McKinley in the 1900 election. His oopularity increased McKinley ' s margin of victory. McKinley was mortally wounded by an assassin Sept. 6, 1901. A week later, TR was sworn in as this nation ' s 26th president. [n his first year as president, TR took action on his calls for reform by suing the Northern Securities Company, then trusts in the beef, coal and sugar industries. TR was also active in conservation. He set aside 150 million acres for national use, doubled the number of national parks and created 16 national monuments. In 1902, TR moved to create the Panama Canal. He mediated a peace which brought an end to the Russo-Japanese War in 1905, and won the Nobel Peace Prize. In 1907, TR sent 16 American battleships around the world. The Great White Fleet was, as TR remarked, the most important service I ever rendered to peace. In 1909, TR left the White House but continued to live the strenuous life. He began a Smithsonian-sponsored African safari, bagging more than 500 animals and birds. He was back in politics for the 1912 election, though TR ' s Bull Moose party never gained the support needed to bring him to the presidency again. TR stumped hard for the Liberty Bond drive after the outbreak of war in Europe. However, with the death of his son, Quentin, in 1918, TR ' s spirit began to wane. In the early morning of Jan. 6, 1919, Roosevelt died. Death had to take him sleeping, said Vice President Thomas R. Marshall. For if Roosevelt had been awake, there would have been a fight. Roosevelt was the first president to fly and the first to submerge in a submarine, as well as the first American to win the Nobel Peace Prize. As assistant secretary of the Navy, he supported research and development in carrier aviation. In naming CVN 71, former Secretary of the Navy John F. Lehman said, (TR) was one of the architects of our modern Navy. His complete faith in the necessity for a strong Navy has been fully justified by most recent history.