I have no idea.

I like TR. He was patriotic always verging on chauvinism, often exceeding that line. His optimism approaches mania. But he was rarely fooled by any man or woman.

If that were all there was to TR then he would be your typical despotic martinet. But he was a far more complex man. He spoke and avidly read and corresponded in several languages. He actively read most (American) scientific journals. Even more amazing is that he understood what he read. He was fabulously wealthy and completely proud of it, yet was contemptuous of wealth for its own sake. He hated socialism, loved freemarkets, yet was an ardent foe of laissez-faire capitalism, trusts, unions, and monopolies.

He was a thoroughly complex and amazing man. Even had he never been president I have no doubt he would have made huge marks on the history of the USA.

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