Theodore Roosevelt decided not to run for reelection in 1908. He had tabbed his vice president, William Howard Taft, to be the Republican candidate, and Taft won the presidency. Now, the former president and outdoorsman found himself in Egypt. With his political career supposedly behind him, the first thing he wished to do was go on an African safari.
His safari from 1909 to 1910 merely added to Roosevelt’s legend. Of course, as arguably the world’s most famous man, he was wanted everywhere he went. In March 1910, he visited Cairo and spent an evening with Abbas Hilmi, the khedive of Egypt.
