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President Theodore Roosevelt had many challenges during his career… corruption in the New York police force, the creation of the Panama Canal, the Spanish-American war, protecting the Grand Canyon and other national monuments, and groundbreaking anti-trust legislation…but the greatest challenge he faced was a volcano in a blue dress, his eldest daughter – flouter of convention, spicy of demeanor, and perhaps the world’s first media superstar who admirers across the world came to call America’s “Princess Alice.”
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Time Travel With The History Chicks
Sources and media recommendations will be on the shownotes for Part Two
Break music: Haper Active, A Fork Where A Fork Don’t Fit
End music: Collection Get, Forget The Princess
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