"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. trlibrary.com/tr/presidency

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. smithsonianmag.com/history/t… #DareGreatly

Bison, wild horses and solitude. Superintendent Rachel Daniels of @TRooseveltNPS on Peter Greenberg Worldwide with @PeterSGreenberg broadcast from the Library. Full show: petergreenberg.com/2026/10/1…

"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. trlibrary.com/tr/presidency

"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." trlibrary.com/tr/family

"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: petergreenberg.com/2026/10/1…

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." trlibrary.com/tr/post-presid…

#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. trlibrary.com/tr/presidency/…

"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: petergreenberg.com/2026/10/1…

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: eventbrite.com/e/20027562488… #DareGreatly #TR250

#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." trlibrary.com/tr/complex-leg…

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. trlibrary.com/tr/presidency/…

"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: petergreenberg.com/2026/10/1… #DareGreatly

#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. trlibrary.com/tr/rise-to-pow…

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.

What happens when you give a group of landscape architecture students a beautiful landscape, a sketchbook, and a few hours? ✏️ Last week, first-year landscape architecture students from Iowa State University added the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library to an annual regional field trip, and they came ready to put pencil to paper. After touring the Library, students headed outside to study the site firsthand. Each selected three favorite site elements to document through sketches and cross sections, along with elevation drawings that captured the landscape from a different perspective. The sketches were impressive, but so were the students behind them. They were happy to share their work, explain the assignment, and even teach the TRPL team a thing or two along the way! Thank you, @IowaStateU for making TRPL part of the journey. Visits like this are exactly what the campus is for: learning, observing, asking questions, and experiencing the landscape firsthand. TRPL looks forward to welcoming more students to learn from the landscape in the years ahead. Come back anytime, Cyclones! 🌪️✏️ #presidentiallibrary #landscapearchitecture #schoolgroups

#OTD in 1912, shot in the chest in Milwaukee, TR's first concern was the man who shot him: "Officers, take charge of him, and see that there is no violence done to him." Then he spoke for eighty minutes. The bullet was never removed. trlibrary.com/tr/post-presid…

"You're the hero of this adventure." Founding CEO @edwardokeefe on what TR still teaches, from Peter Greenberg Worldwide with @PeterSGreenberg broadcast from the Library. Full show: petergreenberg.com/2026/10/1… #DareGreatly

#OTD in 1902, at a quarter to ten at night, there was a knock at the President's door: J. Pierpont Morgan, down from New York with the operators' answer. The coal strike was 154 days old. TR was on crutches, with a general standing by to seize the mines. trlibrary.com/tr/presidency/…

#OTD in 1912, a Michigan weekly printed that TR "gets drunk, too, and that not infrequently." He sued. At trial the publisher admitted he could find no one who had seen it. TR then asked the court for nominal damages. Michigan law set them at six cents. trlibrary.com/tr/post-presid…