Personal
After the Amazon trip, in 1914 Kermit married Belle Wyatt Willard (1892–1968), daughter of the U.S. Ambassador to Spain. They had four children:
- Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt (1916–2000) Kermit Roosevelt, Jr. was the mastermind of the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) Operation Ajax, which orchestrated the coup against Iran's democratically-elected Mohammed Mossadegh administration, and returned Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, to Iran's Peacock Throne in August 1953 for the purpose of returning Western control of Middle Eastern oil supplies.
- Joseph Willard Roosevelt (1918–2008)
- Belle "Clochette" Wyatt Roosevelt (1919–1985)
- Dirck Roosevelt (1925–1953)
From 1914 to 1916, Kermit was assistant manager for National City Bank in Buenos Aires.
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