The Rough Riders
Roosevelt, Theodore IV![The Rough Riders](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/424/4242537/CHSBZCOP034242537.jpg)
During the year preceding the outbreak of the Spanish War I was Assistant Secretary of the Navy. While my party was in opposition, I had preached, with all the fervor and zeal I possessed, our duty to intervene in Cuba, and to take this opportunity of driving the Spaniard from the Western World. Now that my party had come to power, I felt it incumbent on me, by word and deed, to do all I could to secure the carrying out of the policy in which ...