Theodore Roosevelt: How He Changed America

For its April program meeting the Bridgeville Area Historical Society was treated to an excellent presentation by Glenn Flickinger, focusing on the impact that President Theodore Roosevelt had on our country. He specifically emphasized TR’s role in two distinct areas – the evolution of our nation into a global power and the redefinition of the power of the President and the Executive Office. The speaker began by reviewing Roosevelt’s early life – childhood illnesses eventually overcome by a heavy regime of exercise, education at Harvard, success as a naval historian, a career in New York Republican politics, a “sabbatical” as…