Comments on: Presidents Race Panther Attack Video http://blog.letteddywin.com/2008/06/10/presidents-race-panther-attacks-teddy-roosevelt-video/ Support Teddy Roosevelt to win the Nationals presidents race! Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:53:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Presidents Race: Let Teddy Win http://blog.letteddywin.com/2008/06/10/presidents-race-panther-attacks-teddy-roosevelt-video/#comment-190 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:51:57 +0000 http://presidentsrace.wordpress.com/?p=120#comment-190 Great observations. I did not know about the Teddy Roosevelt and the “stalking panther.”

Now we just need an explanation for the banana in pajamas…

]]> By: AJR http://blog.letteddywin.com/2008/06/10/presidents-race-panther-attacks-teddy-roosevelt-video/#comment-189 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:03:57 +0000 http://presidentsrace.wordpress.com/?p=120#comment-189 Why the Panther? Cougar?

Maybe the big cat is actually a cougar, and he is seeking revenge for the 1919 incident where Teddy leapt into a pack of dogs to kill a cougar with a knife. As he wrote in a letter to his son:

“I ran in and stabbed him behind the shoulder, thrusting the knife you loaned me right into his heart. I have always wished to kill a cougar as I did this one, with dogs and the knife.”

http://www.bartleby.com/53/4.html

Teddy’s cabinet presented him with a “Stalking Panther” sculpture upon leaving office, and Teddy used the design for the cover of a book he wrote.

http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_your_park/historical_signs/hs_historical_sign.php?id=8698

https://www.bbhc.org/EcommerceDev/ObjectPage2.cfm?PK_Object_ID=501

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