The End Of Theodore Roosevelt's Days
After Theo left the presidency, he decided to get away from his home in oyster bay. He went on a safari in Africa, and he spent an entire year doing so. So why did old Theo here want to do all this safariish stuff? Well, he went to Africa to get animal specimens for museums. He also enjoyed writing articles for Scribners. And before old Theo came home, he decided to pick up his Nobel Peace Prize that he had gotten when he ended the Russo-Japanese War.
The year...1910. The problem...Mr. Taft's policies aren't making Mr. Roosevelt too happy. Taft had taken what Roosevelt had done and turned it the whole way around; from progressive to conservative. Strange you say? Well, Theo decided to do something about it. He was going to run for the presidency again. Unfortunately, Mr. Taft was nominated instead of Roosevelt, although he was still pretty popular.
Instead of thinking about his defeat, he decided to go to South America for a speaking tour. He also decided he'd take a little trip down the Rio da Divuda River in Brazil so he could map it. But on this trip poor old Theo got his leg cut, got dysentery and malaria, pleaded with the others in his group to be left behind, but made it. Needless to say the people in Brazil loved him for his survival and there was no more Rio da Divuda. It was now Rio Roosevelt.
When he got back to the U.S., it was 1914, and World War I was just beginning. He wanted to fight, but couldn't because he was too old. But his sons weren't, so they went and fought in place of daddy. One even died for old Theo. Unfortunately, old Theo also died on January 6th, 1919 of an embolism. And that was all we will ever know of Theodore Roosevelt.
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