Theodore Roosevelt — "I have always been a man who has believed in the importance of outdoor life, and…"
I have always been a man who has believed in the importance of outdoor life, and I have always been a man who has believed in the importance of physical fitness.
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26th US President (1901-1909), Progressive trust-buster, conservation pioneer, and the youngest person to assume the presidency (after McKinley's assassination).
Closely associated with
William Howard Taft (his hand-picked successor and later 1912 election rival) and Gifford Pinchot (his Forest Service chief and conservation co-architect).
For an intellectual contrast, see
J.P. Morgan, financier and architect of Northern Securities (1837-1913) — TR's 1902 antitrust suit against Morgan's Northern Securities railroad combination was the founding act of progressive antitrust enforcement. Their famous 1902 White House meeting — where Morgan reportedly said 'send your man to my man' and TR refused — is the canonical moment of presidential authority asserting over private financial power.