... reached his terrible twos, the residents of 28 East Twentieth Street (and the rest of the world!) were shaken by the onset of civil war. War between the North and South erupted was declared on April 12, 1861. The Civil War, or War of Northern Aggression, (depending on what side of the Mason-Dixon line you were raised), brought discourse in the Roosevelt home. Theodore senior ... safaris all over the world, Teddy was truly obsessed with the outdoors. This passion obviously stemming from the shackles of asthma he bore through his youth. The rest of Teddy's pre-teen years brought much of t...

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