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An unusually beautiful crowd photo from this period. I love the framing, with TR, the subject of the rapt attention, off-camera to the left, and the timing, which captures the pleased faces and gestures of the crowd. Susan Barsy OUR POLITY

If you would like to learn about what a racist (real meaning of the word), xenophobic bastard that Teddy Roosevelt was, read THE IMPERIAL CRUISE by James Bradley. It will make your blood absolutely BOIL to learn about how this single jerk set the curve for the Second World War in the Pacific, the Communist Revolution in China and the wars in Korea and Vietnam. Not to mention how we slaughtered Filipinos and others under his presidencies. A must read for all Americans. After reading this amazing book, I think that his image should be blasted off of Mount Rushmore.

June 1914. Here is a photo of Roosevelt with Harry Houdini on board: www.examiner.com/ny-in-new-york/houdini-and-theodore-roos... Roosevelt was recovering from malaria at the time and still had a bullet in his chest from an assassination attempt a couple years earlier. The Imperator was plagued by stability problems, fires, an overly complicated propulsion system, and a four year layup during WWI. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Imperator

The unstoppable TR occupied the royal (or imperial) suite on the German ship, Imperator, returning from a quickie trip to Europe. (The Imperator docked at Hoboken, NJ, on June 24, 1914.) Earlier in the year, Roosevelt had returned from an arduous trip through South America, where he had nearly died while exploring the Amazon jungle. New York Times interview with TR aboard the Imperator, June 24, 1914: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D01E0DA1F39E6...

Wystan & Jim Rees, Thanks for the further information on Roosevelt's trip on the Imperator. We will add more detail to this description when we update the record.

woah! great shot!