Theodore Roosevelt began his dynamic political career soon after graduating from Harvard in June, 1880. Through sheer determination, he had developed from a frail boy into a vigorous outdoorsman. He earned a Phi Beta Kappa key as proof of his mental powers, and his family's financial position left him independent enough to choose the road in life which would most challenge these powers.
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