one of my favourite presidents, theodore roosevelt, president from the early part of the twentieth century  and known as the damned cowboy erm  you might be interested to know how people become president erm theodore roosevelt was an arch imperialist  and got very excited about the er war with spain er america had a s little brief war with spain at the end of the nineteenth century erm over the possession of cuba, and erm  in eighteen ninety eight, and this aroused great patriotic feelings in all red blooded americans and especially in theodore roosevelt and er er roosevelt formed his own  company of cavalry called the rough riders  and erm roosevelt wore glasses and was asthmatic but he had this group called the rough riders, sort of early kind of clint eastwood stuff, and erm anyway he g he was engaged in the war with spain er and there was one wonderful moment in the war spain in which the spaniards were at the top of a hill called the san juan hill er and er teddy, as he was known, of course he gave his name to the teddy bear, did you know that did you?