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President Obama travels to Osawatomie, Kansas to deliver an address on the economy where he invoked Theodore Roosevelt's populism and challenged Republican belief in "trickle-down economics". Just over a hundred years after the Bull Moose delivered his “New Nationalism” speech in Osawatomie, Kan., Obama touted his own "Square Deal" . Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States He was a leader of the Republican Party and founder of the Progressive Bull Moose Party of 1912. The Gentlemen's Agreement with Japan came into play in 1907, banning all school segregation of Japanese, yet controlling Japanese immigration in California. That year, Roosevelt signed the proclamation establishing Oklahoma as the 46th state of the Union.