Theodore Roosevelt

By: Olivia Marsteller

Theodore Roosevelt and I, Olivia Marsteller, went to the same school in New York City. We also lived next to each other. My two brothers, a boy two doors away, Theodore and I play tag almost every day, that is when our homework is done. Other days, when someone can’t play tag (we only have a few players and we like everyone to play, we played tag a couple times without someone, but it wasn’t so fun), Teddy (I usually call Theodore Teddy) and I went to the local stables.

On September 29,1869, since the boy two doors away from me was sick ( he usually gets upset when we play tag without him), Teddy and I went to the local stables. We both saw a beautiful, well-groomed, shiny shire (a shire is the biggest breed of horses).

“I’m gonna ride that one!” I chanted.

“No, I’m gonna ride that one!” exclaimed Teddy.

“Bet you can’t bet me in a race!”

“Bet I can!” We then started to race each other. Teddy took the lead by 5 yards, but I zoomed a yard in head of him. Since Teddy’s house was closer, he got the riding lessons. However, my mom said that my lessons could be after Teddy’s.

The next day, while I was getting my helmet on Teddy walked up to me. “When I grow up, I want to be the president,” he said.

“That’s ridiculous,” I replied.

“NO IT’S NOT!” he screamed. However, his dream comes true comes true at the age of 42.

It’s now 1901 and William McKinley is now the president, and Theodore Roosevelt is the vice-president. He moved to WashingtonD.C. from New York City, since his job is there. I found a job there, so I moved there too.

All of the sudden, while I was walking home from work, about everyone in a 2 mile distance from the White House probably heard a terrifying, horrifying, deafening gun-shot. Crowds of people gathered around the White House only to get shooed away by a tall man in a black suit. He had a sad look in his eyes.

“The president is dead,” he said with his head down. People were shocked. Others were terrified. I was puzzled. Who would murder the president? But that also meant that Theodore was president.

About six months after Theodore became president, we heard that the Russo-Japanese war had started. That only terrified us a little bit, until we heard that America might be a battle field. Theodore said that he was going to try to stop it. He ordered sailors to load supplies onto a ship and go to Russia, the place were they said the fighting was. I hopped in an empty barrel aboard the ship to see Russia, and to see if Theodore could stop the war.

About a month later, we arrived in Russia. Theodore courageously walked up to the leaders of the fighting counties. Then he said, “We don’t need to be fighting. Why can’t we be in peace, for once? The world doesn’t need any more deaths. I am-“

The Japanese leader cut him off and snapped, “This is the only way the war can stop!” I was really surprised he understood and spoke English. The Russian leadermust of, too.

“America isn’t getting into this!” he shouted.

“If you would just listen, maybe this chaos could end!” Theodore exclaimed.

“No,” the leaders of the fighting agreed.

I couldn’t stand being quiet any longer. “Quit arguing and listen to Theodore Roosevelt, the president of the U.S.A!” I blurted out.

“Thank you Olivia,” Theodore said. “You two leaders of the fighting countries can talk it out.”

So we left the leaders alone. An hour later, the Russian and Japanese leader both shouted, “The war is over!”

When we got back, Theodore won the Nobel Peace Prize, and three years later, Theodore was elected for president again.

After Theodore had servered as president for seven years, we rode on horse-back into the sunset talking about our good memories.