Theodore Roosevelt was an outdoorsman and a hunter, but he also loved animals. On one occasion, he was hunting with some of his aides and a group of reporters. For several days the newspapers reported that the president had failed to shoot any game and depicted this in a political cartoon. Finally, Roosevelt’s aides found a bear, which they cornered and presented to him as a trophy. However, Roosevelt felt compassion for the bear and refused to shoot it. A Brooklyn storeowner, Morris Michtom, saw the drawing of Roosevelt and the bear cub and was inspired to create a new toy. He created a little stuffed bear cub and put it in his shop window
with a sign that read ‘‘Teddy’s bear.’’ The toys were an immediate success, and Michtom founded the Ideal Novelty and Toy Co., which still exists today.
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