American Experience
T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt (3): The Good Fight
Directed by David GrubinTV-PG
S9 • E30 Oct 7, 1996 55mTR is just 46 years old when he is inaugurated as president. He builds the Panama Canal, wins the Nobel Prize for Peace, and combatively introduces widesweeping social reforms. As his presidency draws to a close, TR names his best friend, Secretary of War William Howard Taft, as his successor. Taft wins the 1908 election.
