White House or bust - Drawing. Public domain image.

Former President Theodore Roosevelt is pictured standing atop "Sagamore Hill," his home near Oyster Bay, N.Y., trying to take off on his "Big Stick." He sports two large wings marked "Down with Peace" and "Hurrah for War." Above his head is a cloud labeled with the year "1916."
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Signed, lower right: Clubb 15 / [club logogram].
Title inscribed in pencil below image.
Bequest and gift; Caroline and Erwin Swann; 1974; (DLC/PP-1974:232.896)
The cartoon appeared in reaction to a pro-military preparedness speech given by Roosevelt on August 25, 1915, at a military training camp in Plattsburg, New York. From the onset of World War I in 1914, Roosevelt had been a staunch supporter of the British-French alliance. He wanted a stiffer foreign policy toward Germany, and urged a policy of national preparedness. His speech sharply criticized President Wilson's policy of neutrality. Clubb indicates from the title and the image that Roosevelt had the 1916 presidential election on his mind, as well as military preparedness.
Published in: The image of America in caricature & cartoon / Amon Carter Museum of Western Art. Fort Worth : The Museum, 1975, p. 108.
Published in: The Rochester Herald, August 27, 1915.
Exhibited: Corcoran Gallery of Art, "The Great Game of Politics," 1972; Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, "The Image of America in Caricature & Cartoon, 1976.