Roosevelt wanted the motto "In God We
Trust" removed from the new $20 gold coin
designed in 1907. Roosevelt felt it was
blasphemous to use the Lord's name on coins that
were so often used to buy "worldly" goods and
services. After a huge public outcry, Congress
passed a law requiring "In God We Trust" be
returned to all United States coinage at once.
He was the first President to ride in an airplane. He flew for four minutes in a plane built by the Wright Brothers on October 11, 1910.
Theodore Roosevelt was our youngest president(He was younger than Kennedy at the time that McKinley was shot and he was inaugurated).
In 1912, Roosevelt took a drink of coffee and exclaimed, "That coffee tastes good, even to the last drop!" Maxwell House got their motto from this.
Roosevelt was the first president to leave the continental U.S. while in office. He went to Panama in 1906.
He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906 for his role of peacemaker in the Russo-Japanese War. He was the first American to ever win the award.
Theodore Roosevelt was shot on October 14, 1912 just before giving a speech during his run as "Bull Moose" candidate. Even though the bullet entered his lung, he still gave the speech!
Roosevelt's wife and mother died on the same day, February 14, 1884.
He war a ring containing a lock of Abe Lincoln's hair to his inauguration.
The teddy bear is named after Theodore Roosevelt.
Teddy Roosevelt was a third cousin twice removed of Martin Van Buren, a fifth cousin of Franklin D. Roosevelt, an uncle of Eleanor Roosevelt, and a great-uncle of Joseph and Stuart Alsop.
Roosevelt was blind in his left eye. He lost his eyesight when he was boxing.
His favorite word was "bully" meaning great.
Roosevelt had a photographic memory. He could read a page in the time it took anyone else
to read a sentence.
He was the first president to be popularly reffered to by his initials, TR.
