Video transcript
Today we come to the heartland of America to pay tribute to a man who embodied the heart and soul and fight and spirit of our country as much as anyone who ever lived. TR had transformed his country by the reach of his vision and by the force of his will into one of the greatest empires ready to take its rightful place as the strongest and most respected nation anywhere in the world. The life of Theodore Roosevelt reminds us that Americans never give up. We don't give up. He never stopped, never quit, never surrendered. Theodore Roosevelt reminds us all that to be a great nation and to be a free nation we must have courage. Without courage you have nothing. He refused to accept failure, mediocrity, corruption, decay, or decline and neither should we. As America turns 250 years old we look at this remarkable man and we recall that with effort, determination, and drive there is nothing that Americans of competence cannot do.
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