A man would have to hate him a lot, not to like him a little.
Supposedly said by one of Roosevelt’s bitterest foes.
They don’t make men like Colonel Roosevelt any more and that is a great pity.
TR, the One and Only
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
TR was the real deal and his own best PR man.
It’s a minor miracle he didn’t get himself killed in Cuba. He led from the front and insisted on riding up San Juan Hill making himself the prime target for 600 or so Spanish regulars.
Humor. A Mr. Darby was a humorous commentator during the day. He wrote that the subtitle to TR’s book on the War in Cuba should have been, “Alone in Cuba.”
A young man could do a lot worse than patterning his life after TR’s.
His son TR, Jr. was a hero [assistant division CO] in WWII and died of heart failure shortly after landing on D-Day.
Today they are succeeded by the Bidens, Clintons, Schumers, et al.
None of us is perfect.
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