Rough Riders (TV Mini Series)

Episode #1.1 (1997)

Dale Dye: Col. Leonard Wood

Quotes 

• Col. Leonard Wood : [examining an account of the Battle of Manila Bay]  He was your appointment, was he not?

  Theodore Roosevelt : Oh, I had a hand in it!

  Col. Leonard Wood : And it was your plan to have Dewey coal his warships and set sail for Manila Bay.

  Theodore Roosevelt : Secretary Long was on vacation in New England.

  Col. Leonard Wood : So, YOU took the initiative?

  Theodore Roosevelt : I suppose so... But that Commodore Dewey was like a wolfhound slipped from the leash, wasn't he, Leonard?

  Col. Leonard Wood : I suppose he was, Theodore... And Roosevelt is like a young second lieutenant: Ambitious, often overreaching, frequently insubordinate, brash... but, successful - this time. Don't try it with me!

• Col. Leonard Wood : All in all, Theodore, you're shaping up to be a competent officer. Don't let it go to your head.

  Theodore Roosevelt : No, sir. I shall not do that!

• Theodore Roosevelt : [trying to convince Wood to be Colonel of the Rough Riders]  Come on, Leonard, you already know you're going. Why not at the head of the wildest mad cap regiment since the Mongols rode the Steppes?

  Col. Leonard Wood : Theodore, do you know that you're mad?

  Edith Roosevelt : Well, it's never bothered him before...