Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library

The official Twitter account of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library #TRLibrary

[Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @TRPresLibrary]

What's a presidential library doing in the North Dakota badlands? @JuddBerger of @NRO came to Medora to find out, from the Elkhorn Ranch to the bison herds to the Medora Musical. #DareGreatly

https://t.co/v3bKuD3imZ

[Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @TRPresLibrary]

On this day in 1894, TR wrote Lodge: "I would literally have given my right arm to have made the race, win or lose. It was the one golden chance, which never returns."

Lodge published their letters in 1925. He left this one out.

https://t.co/CGF1Y4ZvMK

[Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @TRPresLibrary]

Roosevelt’s Maltese Cross Brand Comes Home to the Badlands https://t.co/d69R0sSD8z

[Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @TRPresLibrary]

The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library is the 2026 @ArchMasterPrize Architectural Design of the Year. Thank you to @snohetta, @JLGArchitects and @thinkConfluence for a building that rises out of a Badlands butte. Via @archinect: https://t.co/PT68acFvOd #DareGreatly

[Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @TRPresLibrary]

On this day in 1903, TR spent the afternoon on a sofa. To his son the next day:

"a touch of Cuban fever... I spent the afternoon lying on the sofa, with a bright fire burning and Mother in the rocking chair, with her knitting, beside me."

https://t.co/tGetgijfez

[Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @TRPresLibrary]

"These policies of mine can be summed up in one brief sentence: They represent the effort to punish successful dishonesty."

TR in Nashville, on this day in 1907. Later that day the Knickerbocker Trust suspended payments and the Panic began.

https://t.co/pedWtyKgoy

[Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @TRPresLibrary]

A folded 50-page speech and a steel eyeglass case slowed the bullet. Then T.R. gave the speech anyway.

@EllenWexler at @SmithsonianMag on the 1912 Milwaukee shooting, and two newly surfaced documents from that night.

https://t.co/T3boMFyuU0

#DareGreatly

[Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @TRPresLibrary]

Bison, wild horses and solitude. Superintendent Rachel Daniels of @TRooseveltNPS on Peter Greenberg Worldwide with @PeterSGreenberg broadcast from the Library. Full show: https://t.co/gartMqEYNe

[Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @TRPresLibrary]

"I believe in corporations; I believe in trade unions... where there develops corruption... the offender, whether union or corporation, must be fought."

TR, on this day in 1903 — the one paragraph he'd let a reporter quote.

https://t.co/pedWtyKgoy

[Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @TRPresLibrary]

"I was the youngest man there, and I rose like a rocket."

On this day in 1903, TR told his 16-year-old son how that ended: "I immediately proceeded to lose my perspective, also... I came an awful cropper."

https://t.co/tGetgijfez

[Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @TRPresLibrary]

"It tastes like the land." Executive Chef Candace Stock on the story behind Salt+Scoria, on Peter Greenberg Worldwide with @PeterSGreenberg broadcast from the Library. Full show: https://t.co/gartMqEYNe

[Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @TRPresLibrary]

On this day in 1912, five days after being shot, TR told his nurse the bullet wasn't troubling him. "Not a bit. I'm feeling bully."

He took callers all day. By evening his surgeons: "the patient is fatigued... not at all beyond the range of danger."

https://t.co/IrhBL9wbvB

[Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @TRPresLibrary]

#OTD in 1905, TR left on a nine-day Southern tour. At the Richmond luncheon:

"Next only to a man's having worn the blue comes the fact of the man's having worn the gray, as entitling him to honor in my sight."

He never mentioned disfranchisement.

https://t.co/SEoTHtNjBm

[Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @TRPresLibrary]

"The camera was the magic carpet, really." @kennerly with @PeterSGreenberg on Peter Greenberg Worldwide, broadcast from the Library. In the Room is on view through Jan. 10. Full show: https://t.co/gartMqEYNe

[Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @TRPresLibrary]

How did the Badlands shape T.R.'s leadership? Robbie Lauf of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library explores it Wed., Oct. 21, 6 p.m. CT with @ClintonCenter and @WJCLibrary42 in Little Rock.

Register: https://t.co/jwTG4U1XAI

#DareGreatly #TR250

[Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @TRPresLibrary]

#OTD in 1901, the country learned Booker T. Washington had dined at the White House.

A senator said a thousand Black Southerners must be killed "before they will learn their place again."

A Black paper: "No color line in the White House."

https://t.co/mFtL21VGev

[Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @TRPresLibrary]

125 years ago today, Booker T. Washington became the first African American to dine as a guest of the President and his family at the White House.

It was a working dinner about Southern appointments. Washington took a train to New York the same night.

https://t.co/12OPjjdf5P

[Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @TRPresLibrary]

"The idea is to learn from TR, not about TR." Interim CEO Robbie Lauf on Peter Greenberg Worldwide with @PeterSGreenberg broadcast from the Library. Full show: https://t.co/gartMqEYNe #DareGreatly

[Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @TRPresLibrary]

#OTD in 1886, TR was nominated for mayor of New York without being in the room. A reporter brought him the news at his club.

He finished third of three. Four days later he sailed for London under a false name, to marry Edith.

https://t.co/CGF1Y4ZvMK

[Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @TRPresLibrary]

The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library mourns Dr. Stephen Dow Beckham, Trustee since 2016 and distinguished historian of Native America and the American West. He helped guide the Library from early vision to opening day. Deepest sympathy to Patti and the Beckham family.