Why Teddy? He was a budding socialist and I think he had a screw looose.
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Read "The Rise of Teddy Roosevelt" and "Theodore Rex."
Teddy Roosevelt was a scholar, a zoologist, a hunter and outdoorsman, a historian, the founder of the National Park System, the man who engineered the Spanish American War, a soldier, a patriot, a good shot with a gun, a cowboy, a New York Ciy Police Commissioner who cleaned up corruption, a man who warred against the Robber Barons, an author, Secretary of the U.S. Navy, the man who brought the United Navy into the Modern World, a boxer and martial arts expert, a horseman, a patriot, a devoted and loving husband and son, I could on and on and on.
Read about him. He was an amazing guy.