Theodore Roosevelt: Difference between revisions

[[More Information Than You Require|After he was through with it, it had to be renamed the River of UNQUESTIONABLE CERTAINTY!]]

 

 

In case it wasn't clear by now, he was made of pure, condensed [[Badass]], and is often portrayed as ''[[Memetic Badass|even more so than he already was]]''. ''Within his own lifetime'', historian Henry Adams ''[[Blasphemous Boast|explicitly compared him to God]]''. In fiction, he is frequently portrayed as a [[Large Ham]], in keeping with his [[Boisterous Bruiser|boisterous]] nature and public persona. At her wedding, his daughter, Alice, stated that "My father wants to be the bride at every wedding, the corpse at every funeral, and the baby at every christening." But she was giving as good as she got: Alice was a notorious handful, rambunctious, and known to the press as "Princess Alice." Her father had earlier snarked, "I can either run the country, or attend to Alice. I cannot possibly do both." Teddy also had a son whom he named Kermit ([[More Information Than You Require|THAT SHOWED HIM]]) who joined him on some of his expeditions.<ref>Kermit's son, also named Kermit, would also have adventures, but as he was a CIA agent these tended to be rather more [[Cloak and Dagger]] affairs that involved, among other things, [[wikipedia:Operation Ajax|overthrowing the democratic government of Iran and installing the Shah as an absolute monarch. Hey, it ''was'' the Cold War!]]</ref>