It's called a mid Atlantic accent. "Higher class" Americans where tought to speak in this manner to avoid a particular dialect. Hollywood, high society, politicians, radio personalities, all had this peculiar dialect.
My second grade teacher assigned us presidents to do a report on and I was assigned Teddy Roosevelt. She told me it was because I had “reddish hair, loved the outdoors and reading”. There was so much more to Teddy Roosevelt than even that though! He is one of my favorite presidents of all time. He’s such a study of contrasts. He was weak and sickly as a child, which I think drove him to go far in the other direction and live life to the fullest once he was in better health. He loved the outdoors and is a big part of the reason why we have national parks today; he believed in conservation. Yet he was also a hunter. It’s said he shot game, but also appreciated nature and life, from the very biggest animal to the smallest mouse. He was well read-due to the fact that as a child, he often read books while his siblings got to play outside. He was upper class, and yet it’s been said of him that there was no one more charitable. I think he is such an interesting person and character! Reading his biography is like seeing a good movie! I wish someone would make a movie about his life, a current one. He also suffered incredible loss, losing his wife and mother on the same day. He was a TOUGH guy. He was witty and fought in battles and even got up and gave a 90 minute speech after being shot at point blank and getting a bullet to the chest. The speech is what saved him; the 50 pages in his pocket slowed the bullet. I guess he figured the last he could do was give the speech!🤣 Just an all around bad ass. Such an incredible person to read about!
"are the people fit to govern themselves? I think they are, *my opponents think not.* " not quite all though, or Roosevelt would not need to give this speech.
What an incredibly powerful speech this must have been. Teddy Roosevelt wrote his own speeches. I could tel by his passionate delivery that he meant every word he was saying. I am so glad this snippet of history has bee preserved. Thanks Rick, for uploading it here.
One can hear where FDR acquired some attributes of his speaking style...his careful enunciation of certain words and emphasis on certain parts of sentences. Doris Goodwin reports that FDR wore pince-nez as an imitation of his 5th cousin. The same, apparently, in speaking style.
"I believe in the right of the people to vote", in 1912 that must've been so amazing for people to hear from a real leader. His character and personality was off the charts. I think he could've made a more fruitful alliance with Native Americans if he was the leader in those times. THIS is a PRESIDENT! The last 20 Presidents couldn't shine this man's shoes!
@@thefreelich4875 i dont think Michael is saying that Teddy did more in office but that he could have done more if he was in their position and that he was a overall better and more potent leader.
@@ariejohnson1944 EXACTLY! This man had BALLS and a VISION. Along with his speech, those traits we can only dream about a President having nowadays. Now it's all about analytics and shit like that, which I think is stupid as fuck. This guy was the last President FOR THE PEOPLE AND EARTH! This dude was willing to go the extra mile, he actually worked on real issues that affect average Americans. Trump and Biden have done ZERO for the American people. This dude may have some racist views, but considering the time he was in charge... I think he did more impactful shit than any of these new fake puppet president could ever hope to do. I'd take a Teddy Roosevelt over Biden or Trump ANY FUCKING DAY!
@@thefreelich4875 I'm saying he's one of the few powerful leaders we've ever had with a real vision for America. For example, I think he wouldn't play mental warfare with Hitler, he would've been more direct as far as being the leader against the nazis and simply crush them if he could. I'm saying Roosevelt's thinking was ahead of his time as far as nature preservation and more. I trust any human with a good nature looking out for his land at the end of the day. Sadly this land belongs to Native Americans and was taken from them, and we CANNOT forget this fact. Overlooking that, yes I think this guy was just matter-of-fact, principle-based, and practiced what he preached. All during a time when slavery and racism was very alive, he was the first generation in his family to NOT own slaves. There are many things more I can mention, but I just look at a human's persona, their real persona and just go by that. People that go to rallies and shit are going to download nonsense into their heads, which they can never back up. I remember when American troops and foreign troops working on the same mission used to take pictures together, now we let these fake "presidents" change our culture.... History is already written, there's actually nothing to fight about. If anything, we should be trying to win the new Space War over china and russia, especially after the UFO sightings released by the pentagon.... But nobody wants to talk about that lmao....
Absolutely the greatest president to ever live, hands down. A true progressive, unlike the rainbow coloured, whiny fruitcakes who claim to be in this absolute disaster of a century (Seriously, it's only been 22 bloody years and three months, and we're already on the brink of a societal collapse, if not a fucking world war.) and actually cared about the people. Not to mention he's the only president thus far to get shot in the middle of a speech and then continue as if nothing had happened, and continue to have boxing matches while in office. Truly a badass
So frustrating how they are trying to smear him now and so many other figures of the past. We need to stop judging them by our standards and judge them by the standards of the times in which they lived. Sure things he thought or felt are offensive to us as a society but that's how many people thought back then. There are many things he stood for or did that i dont agree with for examples being big game hunting and his views of other races but i know what his world was like and why he thought the way he did. In 100 years our descendants might think the way we think now is wrong and want to try to wipe us from the record. But the problem is people now want to focus on what wrong about our ancestors and not on what was right. TR was a great president who did many things for us and the environment. Also whitwashing our history does not undo it. Removing a statue because you dont like it isnt going to change the past. Statues are there to remind us of our past and what happened so we can grow and change and learn from it be it good or bad . They are not there to be defaced and torn down because someone finds it offensive by their own standards. Let's be honest everyone is offended by everything now a days and we need to stop giving in to every single person's gripe. Leave our historical figures in their times and ps its merry christmas not happy holidays!!!!
AbsoLUTELY. And to be honest I FULLY believe that Roosevelt would have been a man who would have changed his views on race, especially since he invited Booker T Washington to the White House, and especially because of how passionately equal his daughter Alice viewed people. I bet that if he had been around during the civil rights movement in the 60's (I know he wouldn't have lived that long of course, but if he was somehow alive for it) he would have grown. He was an absolute hell of a president, one we could definitely use today. But he's done his work and he's with God now.
@An Altmer Elf That right there is the truth. Ever since the American Civil War, the former Confederates done everything to rewrite history and brainwashed many generations into thinking about their "southern heritage" and whatever. Which is nothing but utter nonsense created by traitorous sore losers.
The guy was a weird mix of libertarian and progressive really. He wanted to expand the welfare system while retaining the rights of the individual to live how they wish. Given the time before the rise of the modern welfare state before we really saw how terrible a system it became I can't say I would've disagreed with him on practically anything
Same issues prevail today. The big money and business clique is trying to thwart our democracy. Teddy Roosevelt would be greatly disappointed to see us today
He makes the top 5 presidents of all time, #1 Thomas Jefferson; #2 Abraham Lincoln; #3 George Washington; #4 Andrew Jackson (I understand the racist tendencies in private life), #5 Theodore Roosevelt, then what forms the top 10, Eisenhower, Taft, Cleveland, Reagan, Kennedy (If he had the chance)
@@rangps Not really. I'll admit you have to admire what he had to confront while he was President with the depression and WW2, but he is extremely overrated and did far more bad than good. I could go on and on over the obvious and not so obvious bad things this man did but I would recommend you do some deeper research on him, not just what mainline history says about him which is superficial bunk to say the least. All the Presidents that made it in my list had their problems (Andrew Jackson with slavery and Indian removal obviously), but these guys did far more good than bad if you dig deeper. FDR could make in the top 15 but you'll have to overlook quite a bit of gruesome truths to do so.
@@rangps FDR is seriously overblown as a president. His actions are now believed by many economists to have directly contributed to the continuation of the Great Depression rather than the abatement of it. If it weren't for the "Leader of the Free World" persona he embodied during WWII, history would look far less favorably upon his tenure in office.
I've heard it argued that Jackson viewed the Indians from a paternalistic perspective and ordered their relocation to Oklahoma to save them from an inevitable war of total destruction with the encroaching Southerners, as well as compound the ongoing Nullification Crisis in South Carolina.
It is true that Teddy was progressive but not the kind of progressivism we have today. Besides that, he was very conservative and believed in small government. After all, he once said "To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth."
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TR was always one of my heroes. It's amazing to hear his voice.
Interesting how the accent is like a mix of British and American
It's called a mid Atlantic accent. "Higher class" Americans where tought to speak in this manner to avoid a particular dialect. Hollywood, high society, politicians, radio personalities, all had this peculiar dialect.
Mix of New York and York lol
@@daltonthomas8177 I was about to say something in response but I couldn't say it better myself.
@@demi2931 See above.
@@daltonthomas8177 which particular dialect was being avoided
His words are like poetry.
The man in the arena .....is still one of my fave
My second grade teacher assigned us presidents to do a report on and I was assigned Teddy Roosevelt. She told me it was because I had “reddish hair, loved the outdoors and reading”.
There was so much more to Teddy Roosevelt than even that though! He is one of my favorite presidents of all time. He’s such a study of contrasts. He was weak and sickly as a child, which I think drove him to go far in the other direction and live life to the fullest once he was in better health.
He loved the outdoors and is a big part of the reason why we have national parks today; he believed in conservation. Yet he was also a hunter. It’s said he shot game, but also appreciated nature and life, from the very biggest animal to the smallest mouse.
He was well read-due to the fact that as a child, he often read books while his siblings got to play outside. He was upper class, and yet it’s been said of him that there was no one more charitable.
I think he is such an interesting person and character! Reading his biography is like seeing a good movie! I wish someone would make a movie about his life, a current one.
He also suffered incredible loss, losing his wife and mother on the same day. He was a TOUGH guy.
He was witty and fought in battles and even got up and gave a 90 minute speech after being shot at point blank and getting a bullet to the chest. The speech is what saved him; the 50 pages in his pocket slowed the bullet. I guess he figured the last he could do was give the speech!🤣
Just an all around bad ass. Such an incredible person to read about!
This guy was a bad ass
He strongly believed in the conservation of land in the United States.
Just like the UN they want to keep people out of nature.
TR is my favorite President! If Lincoln was the No 1 President, then, in my opinion, TR is No 2! We need a President EXACTLY like this man !
One of the best Presidents we ever had! Wish he was running the nation now!
He’d be turning over in his grave if he saw the shit that goes on currently 😫
Dang, this is not what I imagined him sounding like.
Yeah he had a high pitched voice. When he was in the NY Assembly other people hated hearing his voice.
@@corgifloofi4840 I always imagined a very powerful, commanding voice.
find another one of his speeches like americanism in 1918
@@corgifloofi4840 source? I'd be interested in reading it
Me either amazing to hear him
Good God, politicians actually had standards at one point.
"are the people fit to govern themselves? I think they are, *my opponents think not.* "
not quite all though, or Roosevelt would not need to give this speech.
lol no it was just him he literally went around trying to beat all the baddies before he was president
What an incredibly powerful speech this must have been. Teddy Roosevelt wrote his own speeches. I could tel by his passionate delivery that he meant every word he was saying. I am so glad this snippet of history has bee preserved. Thanks Rick, for uploading it here.
what a based young man, he could become a president
He had already been president by the time this speech was given.
One can hear where FDR acquired some attributes of his speaking style...his careful enunciation of certain words and emphasis on certain parts of sentences. Doris Goodwin reports that FDR wore pince-nez as an imitation of his 5th cousin. The same, apparently, in speaking style.
He ought to be on Mt. Rushmore!
Oh wait - he already is😅😅
My favorite president!
Despite his personal flaws, his ACTIONS spoke even LOUDER than his words. A TRULY GREAT PRESIDENT.
"I believe in the right of the people to vote", in 1912 that must've been so amazing for people to hear from a real leader. His character and personality was off the charts. I think he could've made a more fruitful alliance with Native Americans if he was the leader in those times. THIS is a PRESIDENT! The last 20 Presidents couldn't shine this man's shoes!
The last 20 presidents? What's wrong with William Howard Taft, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Jimmy Carter?
@@thefreelich4875 i dont think Michael is saying that Teddy did more in office but that he could have done more if he was in their position and that he was a overall better and more potent leader.
@@ariejohnson1944 EXACTLY! This man had BALLS and a VISION. Along with his speech, those traits we can only dream about a President having nowadays. Now it's all about analytics and shit like that, which I think is stupid as fuck. This guy was the last President FOR THE PEOPLE AND EARTH! This dude was willing to go the extra mile, he actually worked on real issues that affect average Americans. Trump and Biden have done ZERO for the American people. This dude may have some racist views, but considering the time he was in charge... I think he did more impactful shit than any of these new fake puppet president could ever hope to do. I'd take a Teddy Roosevelt over Biden or Trump ANY FUCKING DAY!
@@michaelscott6357 without a doubt my friend, if i can end my life being half the man Theodore was i would be lucky.
@@thefreelich4875 I'm saying he's one of the few powerful leaders we've ever had with a real vision for America. For example, I think he wouldn't play mental warfare with Hitler, he would've been more direct as far as being the leader against the nazis and simply crush them if he could. I'm saying Roosevelt's thinking was ahead of his time as far as nature preservation and more. I trust any human with a good nature looking out for his land at the end of the day. Sadly this land belongs to Native Americans and was taken from them, and we CANNOT forget this fact. Overlooking that, yes I think this guy was just matter-of-fact, principle-based, and practiced what he preached. All during a time when slavery and racism was very alive, he was the first generation in his family to NOT own slaves. There are many things more I can mention, but I just look at a human's persona, their real persona and just go by that. People that go to rallies and shit are going to download nonsense into their heads, which they can never back up. I remember when American troops and foreign troops working on the same mission used to take pictures together, now we let these fake "presidents" change our culture.... History is already written, there's actually nothing to fight about. If anything, we should be trying to win the new Space War over china and russia, especially after the UFO sightings released by the pentagon.... But nobody wants to talk about that lmao....
The people have the right and responsibility to rule themselves, not someone else.
Hands down THE greatest President in our history. What a beast.
Hard to argue with that.
TEDDY THE GOAT
This guy is the best president, with the second best being Washington. Seriously this guy was a god damn badass
Absolutely the greatest president to ever live, hands down. A true progressive, unlike the rainbow coloured, whiny fruitcakes who claim to be in this absolute disaster of a century (Seriously, it's only been 22 bloody years and three months, and we're already on the brink of a societal collapse, if not a fucking world war.) and actually cared about the people. Not to mention he's the only president thus far to get shot in the middle of a speech and then continue as if nothing had happened, and continue to have boxing matches while in office. Truly a badass
So frustrating how they are trying to smear him now and so many other figures of the past. We need to stop judging them by our standards and judge them by the standards of the times in which they lived. Sure things he thought or felt are offensive to us as a society but that's how many people thought back then. There are many things he stood for or did that i dont agree with for examples being big game hunting and his views of other races but i know what his world was like and why he thought the way he did. In 100 years our descendants might think the way we think now is wrong and want to try to wipe us from the record. But the problem is people now want to focus on what wrong about our ancestors and not on what was right. TR was a great president who did many things for us and the environment. Also whitwashing our history does not undo it. Removing a statue because you dont like it isnt going to change the past. Statues are there to remind us of our past and what happened so we can grow and change and learn from it be it good or bad . They are not there to be defaced and torn down because someone finds it offensive by their own standards. Let's be honest everyone is offended by everything now a days and we need to stop giving in to every single person's gripe. Leave our historical figures in their times and ps its merry christmas not happy holidays!!!!
AbsoLUTELY. And to be honest I FULLY believe that Roosevelt would have been a man who would have changed his views on race, especially since he invited Booker T Washington to the White House, and especially because of how passionately equal his daughter Alice viewed people. I bet that if he had been around during the civil rights movement in the 60's (I know he wouldn't have lived that long of course, but if he was somehow alive for it) he would have grown.
He was an absolute hell of a president, one we could definitely use today. But he's done his work and he's with God now.
@An Altmer Elf That right there is the truth. Ever since the American Civil War, the former Confederates done everything to rewrite history and brainwashed many generations into thinking about their "southern heritage" and whatever. Which is nothing but utter nonsense created by traitorous sore losers.
TR is a LEGEND and my favorite. But he's definitely got some problematic views...
Sadly you are right.. it's scary!!
The guy was a weird mix of libertarian and progressive really. He wanted to expand the welfare system while retaining the rights of the individual to live how they wish. Given the time before the rise of the modern welfare state before we really saw how terrible a system it became I can't say I would've disagreed with him on practically anything
Holly crap the bull mose sou ds exactly like he should bully
Same issues prevail today. The big money and business clique is trying to thwart our democracy. Teddy Roosevelt would be greatly disappointed to see us today
Compare this to the elocution of our current "president".
Oh wow, how prescient.
I wonder if this is related to the Transatlantic accent used in Hollywood during the first half of the 20th century, such as Katharine Hepburn's.
Yes, it is an upper-class (even elite) East Coast accent. His fifth cousin, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, had a slightly later version of this accent.
@@ginathegreat3858 Source?
@@Urlocallordandsavior Wdym, "source". Find out how the East Coast accent sounds. Find out how FDR's accent sounds and you'll see that he's right.
Exactly! It's an upper class Northeastern accent. I grew up in CT near Hepburn's birthplace.
Quite a few Upper class Ivy Leaguers talked like that.
This accent may have had an influence on the Mid-Atlantic accent but it most definitely was not one.
Among my top three Presidents. POTUS 26
-Dasa William Griffith
I like his logic it's for the people
He sounds exactly the way I imagined he would. An awesome alpha male if there ever was one.
His squeaky voice speaks to us all ^^
"Your president, John Henry Eden...."
He would make a good Thomas the tank engine offer
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This isn't of course his public speaking voice. He is here speaking for the audio recording.
He makes the top 5 presidents of all time, #1 Thomas Jefferson; #2 Abraham Lincoln; #3 George Washington; #4 Andrew Jackson (I understand the racist tendencies in private life), #5 Theodore Roosevelt, then what forms the top 10, Eisenhower, Taft, Cleveland, Reagan, Kennedy (If he had the chance)
no love for FDR?
@@rangps Not really. I'll admit you have to admire what he had to confront while he was President with the depression and WW2, but he is extremely overrated and did far more bad than good. I could go on and on over the obvious and not so obvious bad things this man did but I would recommend you do some deeper research on him, not just what mainline history says about him which is superficial bunk to say the least. All the Presidents that made it in my list had their problems (Andrew Jackson with slavery and Indian removal obviously), but these guys did far more good than bad if you dig deeper. FDR could make in the top 15 but you'll have to overlook quite a bit of gruesome truths to do so.
@@rangps FDR is seriously overblown as a president. His actions are now believed by many economists to have directly contributed to the continuation of the Great Depression rather than the abatement of it. If it weren't for the "Leader of the Free World" persona he embodied during WWII, history would look far less favorably upon his tenure in office.
I've heard it argued that Jackson viewed the Indians from a paternalistic perspective and ordered their relocation to Oklahoma to save them from an inevitable war of total destruction with the encroaching Southerners, as well as compound the ongoing Nullification Crisis in South Carolina.
#1 George Washinton, #2 Teddy Roosevelt, #3 Abe Lincoln, #4 Ronald Reagan, #5 John Adams
He sounds like a cartoon character
That’s the distortion of the equipment of that era.
Wtf is the fbi and secret service doing
Pineapples indeed sir pineapples indeed
GO HIDE IN YOUR TUBE!
He was wrong sadly.
first =]
Just like Trump The People First. Will be second president to have three terms
trump is not people first, he's trump first and god I hope he does not abolish the term limit, we don't need him as dictator.
Hard for people to rule when you support big-government progressivism.
And yet we have socialism for big farm operations and the military industrial complex. It's not like voters dislike big-government progressivism.
Sounds like he has returned as President Trump.
Indeed. Trump is the best president we've had since Reagan.
Larry Vanhoose “grab her by the pussy” yeah that doesn’t sound like something Teddy Roosevelt would say but that might just be me
I mean Teddy was pretty Liberal for the time, so I have no idea what you mean.
It is true that Teddy was progressive but not the kind of progressivism we have today. Besides that, he was very conservative and believed in small government. After all, he once said "To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth."
LIL SHINY I mean its not like TR once said "give my big stick a suckles." Ill let you know what "big stick" means.