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Theodore Roosevelt is credited with popularizing the phrase "a square deal for every man" as part of his political platform. It emphasized fairness and equality in economic opportunities, social justice, and government regulation.
Thoma Woodrow Wilson - one of my favorite presidents - was the front runner in the 1912 campaign, running on a platform of liberal reforms. He was overwhelmingly elected with a total of 435 electoral votes. The other two candidates, Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft received grand totals of 88 and 8 electoral votes, respectively.
President Woodrow Wilson signed the legislation that changed it from a monument into a National Park in 1919. Theodore Roosevelt however is considered to be the founder, He named it a game preserve in the hope of protecting the natural environment and added National Forest lands to it in an effort to isolate it from human contact.
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A candidate centered campaign focuses on the candidate as an individual, as opposed to the party he/she represents. A party centered campaign focuses on the party and the party's platform.
Teddy Roosevelt's Bull Moose party platform was built around the direct election. He was the president.
New Nationalism.
TR was a proponent of national greatness rather than that of individual states, which suited the Republican Platform nicely. In his time, the Democrats were still associated with the south and with the Rebel cause in the Civil War; TR was from New York, a Union state.
A "platform" is a position or issue which a politician uses to try to get elected. In this case, it would be part of a presidential candidate's campaign.
A campaign promise is also called an election promise. Campaign promises made by a politician are part of what is known as their platform, which is a list of things the candidate supports.
The idea of laissez faire in President Hoover's 1932 campaign platform was that the government should stay out of economic issues.
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