The more I read about Teddy, the less I respect him.
I have 3 biographies of TR. The more I learn about him the more in awe I am.
With the possible exception of Jefferson, he was the most intelligent president of them all.
He, like all men had his weaknesses. He personally picket Taft as the next president and Taft was a good one. Taft in fact busted more trusts than TR did.
Still Roosevelt felt that Taft had betrayed him but he had not. TR just had to be in charge of everything. As Alice his daughter described him, he had to be the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral.
What is even worse, Taft absolutely loved Roosevelt. At TR’s funeral, Taft was the last person to leave the grave and was seen to be weeping.