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To: LindyBill who wrote (190929)	12/29/2006 7:34:07 PM
From: DMaA	Respond to of 793845

You don't remember "Uncle Bill"? Playing TR in "The Wind and the Lion" was the best performance Brian Keith ever gave. My favorite TR story is that he liked to play this game where he would pick a point on the map and walk a straight line to it. If he had to walk through a swamp, swim a lake, walk through people's houses. There is a hilarious scene in one of Gore Vidal's "Burr" series where TR and the ambassador from GB are walking and having a serious discussion when they come to a lake, and keep walking right up to their necks and out again. THe ambassador never bats an eye.

To: LindyBill who wrote (190929)	12/29/2006 8:06:41 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793845

This talk of TR brought to mind the excellent mini series TNT did in the late 90s called The Rough Riders. Most of the movie is about what's involved in putting an army together, these guys came from really disparate backgrounds. In one scene a few bronc busting cowboys were trying to break a horse but kept getting thrown. Then a bunch of collegiate easterners show up and the cowboys figure it'd be pretty funny to send one of them on an errand on that horse. The guy gets on, the horse bucks and spins, but the college kid stays with it. Finally the horse calms down and the kid observes, "he's a spirited mount." And goes riding off to do his assigned errand. I guess playing polo teaches good horsemanship as much as anything else. <g> I'm sure it's available on DVD. >>When the Spanish-American War began in 1898, Teddy Roosevelt was a young assistant secretary of the Navy who enthusiastically talked his way into battle lieutenant colonel in the 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry Regiment. With charisma and no combat experience, Roosevelt enchanted the media and lead the eclectic Rough Riders through one of the most famous episodes in American military historythe charge on San Juan Hill, a heroic victory that would eventually carry him to the White House. "Roosevelt thought it was just a matter of time before the foreign powers Germany, France, Japan, Russia would take over everything, including the United States," says director John Milius, a history buff and Roosevelt enthusiast. "The U.S. was an isolationistic experiment, but Roosevelt knew it was capable of a vast industrialization. He realized our country could produce far more products than we could use ourselves, which put us in direct conflict with the European powers." Roosevelt entered the fray in Cuba as second in command of the 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry under Colonel Leonard Wood. "Coming straight from a bureaucratic position in Washington, Roosevelt entered the war with a certain innocence and boundless enthusiasm," says Milius. "He studied the soldiers around him and learned quickly. He was a natural leader. Enthralled by Roosevelt's charisma, which overshadowed Wood, newspapers referred to the cavalry as "Teddy's Terrors," "Teddy's Gilded Gang" and "Roosevelt's Rangers," designations that Roosevelt did not endorse. The only appellation he approved was "Roosevelt's Rough Riders," a term he used as early as 1896 when saying he longed to lead a troop of "roughriders" into battle. From 23,000 enthusiastic volunteers, 560 men had been selected to fight under Wood and Roosevelt. The Rough Riders were a cross-cultural mix of wealthy Eastern dandies, cowboys and outlaws. "Each had completely different training, but they were an instant cavalry because everyone could ride and shoot so well," says Milius. "The rich, Eastern boys were not fragile, as people thought. They were more like English knights who believed it was the duty of the patrician class to influence history by the sword." Among the Rough Riders were footballers from Princeton, high-jumpers from Yale, polo players and several famous American families. "Hamilton Fish, former captain of the Columbia crew team, came from one of the wealthiest families in New York. B.F. Goodrich survived the war and built the country's tire industry. Bill Tiffany was the son of the renowned department-store family," says Milius. "These high society men mixed with the cowboys and became great friends. They continued to have reunions for many years after the war." alt.tnt.tv