AP Gov't, Theodore Roosevelt, Progressive Party candidate for the Presidency, 1912.

Click this to hear Theodore Roosevelt in a speech running for the Presidency.

Theodore Roosevelt, Presidential Candidate, Progressive Party, "The Right Of The People To Rule", Oyster Bay, New York, c. August, 1912 - "The great fundamental issue now before our people can be stated briefly. It is, "Are the American people fit to govern themselves, to rule themselves, to control themselves?"... A historic audio document, originally recorded on an Edison Blue Amberol Cylinder and available here in .mp3 format.