Description: ORIGINAL! RARE! PRES. THEODORE "TEDDY" ROOSEVELT @ 1st & MAIN St. LOS ANGELES CA. PHOTO 1903 RARE! 26th PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES THEODORE "TEDDY" ROOSEVELT at 1st & MAIN St. LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA ON MAY 8,1903. UNPUBLISHED "OOAK" MOUNTED PHOTO. PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES THEODORE "TEDDY" ROOSEVELT STANDS WAVING FROM A HORSE DRAWN CARRIAGE AS A PART OF A PRESIDENTIAL VISIT PROCESSION AT " 1st & MAIN St." LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA IN FRONT OF THE NATICK HOUSE ON MAY 8,1903. SPEECH GIVEN DURING HIS VISIT THE SAME DAY: My Fellow-Citizens:I greet you and thank you for the enjoyment you have given me today. I cannot say how I have appreciated being here in your beautiful State and your beautiful city. I do not remember ever seeing quite the parallel to the procession I have just witnessed. [Applause] I find, men and women of California, that California believes implicitly in two of my own favorite beliefs—the navy and irrigation. [Applause] The navy, because this country is one of the great leading nations of mankind and is bound to become ever greater as the years roll by, and therefore it must have a navy corresponding to its position. [Applause] Moreover, we as a nation front two great oceans, and we must have a navy capable of asserting our position alike on the Pacific and the Atlantic. [Applause] This year we have begun the preparations for the completion of the Isthmian Canal. [Applause] That is important commercially; it will become even more important should we ever become involved in war, because holding that canal it would be open to our own warships and closed to those of any hostile power. [Applause] I want a navy, I want to see the American republic with a fighting navy, because I never wish to see us take a position that we cannot maintain. I do not believe in a blu!. I feel about a nation as we all feel about a man; let him not say anything that he cannot make good, and having said it let him make it good. [Applause] I believe in doing all we can to avoid a quarrel, to avoid trouble; I believe in speaking courteously of all the other peoples of mankind, of scrupulously refraining from wronging them and of seeing that in return they do not wrong us. [Applause] I believe in the Monroe doctrine, and I believe in it not as an empty formula of words, but as something we are ready to make good by deeds, and therefore I believe in having an adequate navy with which to make that doctrine good. More than that, here on the Pacific, the greatest of the oceans, we as a nation are growing by leaps and by bounds, our interests increasing with ever accelerating rapidity, and if we are to protect those interests, and to take the position we should take, we must see that the growth of the navy takes place with equal rapidity with the growth of the interests that it is to protect.When I come to speak of the preservation of the forests, of the preservation of the waters, of the use of the waters from the mountains and of the waters obtained by artesian wells, I only have to appeal to your own knowledge, to your experience. I have been passing through a veritable garden of the earth yesterday and today, here in the southern half of California, and it has been made such by the honesty and wisdom of your people, and by the way in which you have preserved your waters and utilized them. I ask that you simply, keep on as you have begun, and that you let the rest of the nation follow suit. We must preserve the forests to preserve the waters, which are themselves preserved by the forests, if we wish to make this country as a whole blossom as you have made this part of California blossom. In saying good-by to you I want to say that it has been the greatest pleasure to see you, and I am glad, my fellow-Americans, to think that you and I are citizens of the same country. [Applause] . MOUNT'S DIMENSIONS: 4 7/8" x 4 7/8" SEPIA. SHARP FOCUS with VERY GOOD CONTRAST. CONDITION IS EXTREMELY FINE OVERALL WITH SOME VERY LIGHT HANDLING FROM ITS 121+ YEARS INTERESTING ANOMALY: PLEASE SEE A PERIOD CHILDS GHOSTED IMAGE ON THE REVERSE MOUNT FROM THIS LISTING'S MOUNTED PHOTOGRAPH BEING STORED IN FRONT OF THE CHILDS PHOTOGRAPH FOR 121+ YEARS WITH THE CHILD PHOTOGRAPH IMAGE MAKING INTIMATE CONTACT WITH REVERSE MOUNT OF THE LISTING PHOTO'S MOUNT. (please see pictures) THIS IS NOT A COPY OR A REPRODUCTION. PLEASE SEE MY 100% POSITIVE FEEDBACK AND BUY WITH CONFIDENCE.
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Location: New York, New York
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President: Theodore Roosevelt
Type: Photograph
Term in Office: 1901-09
Year: 1903
Signed: No
First Lady: Edith Roosevelt
Theme: Politics
Material: Paper
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Country/Region: United States
