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This clip contains footage of Theodore Roosevelt. It begins with a WS of Roosevelt’s home and estate, Sagamore Hill. A tighter shot of the house. A panning shot of the back porch. A moving shot up the front steps into the house. Dissolves into a slow moving shot through the hallway with statues and animal heads, through the living room, closing in on a portrait of Roosevelt on the wall and ending as a close up of the portrait. Cuts to a shot of Roosevelt walking up to the camera. A shot of Roosevelt playing with his dogs. A WS of Roosevelt walking with his dogs. A shot of Roosevelt chopping down a tree with an ax. A WS of Roosevelt rowing a row boat across the water. A shot of Roosevelt riding horse. He dismounts the horse and feeds it and pets it. Roosevelt, at Sagamore Hill, looking at documents with his son Archie who serves as his unofficial assistant.