Or as the journalist Raymond Clapper wrote of Roosevelt at the end of his first term: “It is scarcely an exaggeration to say ...

The man, the mustache, the legend that is Tom Ritchey is writing a book, offering a first-person account into the origins of mountain biking and its nascent days.

Roosevelt would be selected as the Democratic nominee instead of Smith, and would ultimately be elected 32nd president of the United States.