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Among his many credits, Karl Behr can count tennis champion, banking magnate, and Titanic survivor. None of these relate to Theodore Roosevelt, yet the former president looms large in Behr’s memory. He met Roosevelt as a college student and worked as a booster for Roosevelt during the 1912 Progressive Party campaign, organizing some of the largest rallies in New York City. Behr’s reminiscences were dictated to his daughter rather than the Hagedorns because he wanted his grandchildren to know about Theodore Roosevelt.
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Cullinane, M.P. (2021). The Account of a College Man: Karl H. Behr. In: Remembering Theodore Roosevelt . The World of the Roosevelts. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69296-4_12
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