Teddy the Rough Rider by Ray Enright
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This short follows the political career of Theodore Roosevelt, beginning in 1895, when he was appointed police commissioner of New York City. In 1897 he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy. His charge up San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War in 1898 is re-created. He becomes vice president in March 1901 and assumes the presidency when William McKinley is assassinated six months later. According to the narrator, Roosevelt refused to be beholden to political bosses, doing what he believed to be right for the American people.
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Cast
Sidney Blackmer as Theodore Roosevelt
Douglas Wood as President William McKinley
Selmer Jackson as John W. Riggs
Theodore von Eltz as William Loeb
Arthur Loft as Big Jim Rafferty
John Ridgely as Reporter
Glenn Strange as Jim Rawlins
Robert Warwick as Capt. Leonard Wood
Frank Wilcox as Roosevelt's Secretary
Pierre Watkin as Sen. Platt
Wedgwood Nowell as Mine Owner
Edward McWade as Russell Alger, Secretary of War
Edward Van Sloan as Elihu Root, Secretary of State
Earl Dwire as Caretaker Messenger in Adirondacks
Nat Carr as Reporter
Walter Fenner as 1st Slum Lord
Gus Glassmire as 3rd Slum Lord
Frank Mayo as Cabinet Member
Morgan Wallace as First Financier
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