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Theodore Roosevelt River of Doubt

When Theodore Roosevelt was defeated in an election in 1913, he got invited to make a speech in South America. He decided that he would stay there with his son Kermit. Once he reached Brazil, the country’s Foreign Minister offered him a chance to explore an unmapped river in the heart of the rain forest. Theodore, Kermit, and their crew took off on an adventure down the River of Doubt. They teamed forces with Brazil’s most famous explorer, Canidido Rondon.
Roosevelt had taken his morphine with him on the journey. It came in handy because along the way, he began to suffer from malaria and he had developed a potentially deadly bacterial infection in his leg after he sliced it on a boulder. This caused his body temperature to rise up to 105 degrees. He had to tell Kermit and Cherrie to go on without him.
Kermit’s paddler had drowned in one of the many deadly rapids in the river. This same thing almost happened to Kermit. This put Roosevelt in constant fear of losing his son. Roosevelt had already had to deal with himself getting sick, and now he has to watch out and make sure that nothing happens to his son.
Once the expedition started to appear impassable, Roosevelt was very sick. The rest of the men in the group were becoming sick too because they were so exhausted and hungry. The only man among them who believed that they could get their dugouts through the rapids was Kermit. Having spent much of the past year building bridges, he was extremely skilled with ropes. Everyone but Rondon supported Kermit. Roosevelt understood that the best way to ensure Kermit's survival was not to spare him the burden of carrying his father but to give him the chance to do just that. To save his son, Roosevelt realized, he would have to let his son save him.
When the expedition was over, all but 3 men survived and was able to place the river on the map of South America. Roosevelt never fully recovered from his sicknesses, but he didn’t regret anything about the expedition. "I am always willing to pay the piper," he once wrote, "when I have had a good dance." After the expedition took place, the river was renamed Rio Roosevelt.

Theodore Roosevelt Timeline

Timeline
1904 - Roosevelt, one of the most popular presidents in his nation's history, had vowed never to run again after winning his second term in the White House in 1904.
1909 - As a freshman, he and his father (recently out of office as President) - both of whom loved nature and outdoor sports - went on a safari in Africa
1912 - The line outside Madison Square Garden started to form at 5:30 p.m., just as an orange autumn sun was setting in New York City on Halloween Eve, 1912.election day
1913 - In December 1913, Roosevelt, then 55, and a small group of men embarked on a journey to explore and map Brazil's River of Doubt. Almost from the start, the expedition went disastrously wrong. He went on a losing streak.
1914 - through the Brazilian Wilderness, recounted the father-and-son expedition into the Amazon Basin Brazilian jungle in 1913–14
(1916–2000) , Jr. was the mastermind of the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) Operation Ajax, which orchestrated the coup against Iran's democratically-elected Mohammed Mossadegh administration, and returned Mohammad Reza Pahlavi,
1917 - As he was about to be transferred to a Russian branch, the U.S. entered the World War.
1919 - "Many of his critics could account for his leaving the Republican Party and heading another, only on the theory that he was moved by a desire for revenge," William Roscoe Thayer, Roosevelt's friend and one of his earliest biographers, wrote in 1919
1940 - At the end of 1940, he returned to England and was discharged from the army on health grounds on 2 May 1941, by which time he had once again reached the rank of captain
1953 - The Shah of Iran, to Iran's Peacock Throne in August 1953 for the purpose of returning Western control of Middle Eastern oil supplies.

Sources:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1207799-1,00.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4986859
http://www.enotes.com/topic/Kermit_Roosevelt
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