There was a program on C-SPAN3 today about the assassination of William McKinley. Someone asked the speaker if he thought that Teddy Roosevelt would have ever become President if McKinley had not been killed. The speaker thought he probably would have just because he was such a dynamic personality—as a hero of the Spanish American War and governor of New York, he would have been in a strong position to become the Republican nominee in 1904, whether or not he had served as Vice President in McKinley’s second term.