presidential report card

Presidential Report Card

Name of President: ______________________________ Theodore Roosevelt

Number of Presidency: ____________________________ 26th 

Years in Office: __________________________________ 1901-1909

In the following ten categories, grade your president from an A to an F. (You may “acknowledge” border-line grades with a – or a +).  You will need to give a 50 word justification as to why your candidate scored as they did. 

Category	Grade	Comments
Ability to handle and deal with a crisis	B+	Roosevelt organized a volunteer cavalry known as the Rough Riders which he led San Juan Hill in the Battle of San Juan Heights in 1898. After the battle he was nominated for the Medal of Honor
Ability to work with Congress and Cabinet	B	He was able to work with them to create his foreign policy and other misc. projects.
Character and Integrity	A	He was known to have a strong sense of right and wrong, on one occasion he fired a cowboy on the spot for branding another mans cattle.
Education	A	Theodore Roosevelt spent four years in Harvard where he got magna cum laude, an academic level of distinction used by educational institutions to signify an academic degree which was received "with great honor".
Empathy	A	He was one of the people, quite literally. During a small break from politics, he went west and started the life of a cowboy.
Foreign Policy	A+	He is best known for his foreign policy.
Relates to the common man	A	He left to go west and spent his life as a cowboy working hard.
Persuasiveness	A	Theodore Roosevelt had been in politics for a long time before his presidency, and along with his years of work with the cowboys, he became quite adept.
Political Experience	A	Before coming into office Theodore Roosevelt was governor of New York.
Public speaking & Communication	A	During his life, Roosevelt became a leader on multiple occasions. From his earlier political career and his group of cowboys he lead.