The difference was, of course, Hanna hated TR and had loathed the idea of making him VP. "Your job," he told MCkINLEY is "to live for the next four years." When TR took the job he expected it was the end of his political life.

TR is, though the new guard would ever say so, the most successful progressive in history, because while he was a member of privelege and wealth he genuinely believed in working for the common man in a way no President before him had. This did not make him popular with the conservative GOP but it made him immensely popular with the American people and for his actions, he is usually ranked - along with cousin, among the 5 greatest Presidents of all time. (The most recent ranking put him at number 5 or maybe 4.) For all of his flaws - and the man had as much of an ego as Trump did - TR believed in the greater good and so much of the best things America is was started by his administration. It's a pity that the modern left has chosen to erase him from their narrative because, of course, he was a Republican and as we all know all of them were evil incarnate. (Yes I know about Lincoln. I've read some articles on this site and the jury still seems to be out on that fact. Apparentrly there's still some of them who seemed to believe America would be better off half slave, half free. I'll deal with that in a different series.)