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The Roosevelts
Education Clip Rough Riders During WWI
Theodore Roosevelt visits Wilson and volunteers to put together the Rough Riders to lead them into battle again. Though he admired TR, Wilson had to turn him down. TR was crestfallen and disillusioned and comes to the realization that the world he knew has come to an end.
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Theodore’s presidency and FDR and Eleanor’s courtship and marriage.

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Examine the early lives of Theodore Roosevelt and his younger cousin, Franklin.