Quote Originally Posted by Aloha_Shooter View Post
Whoa, don't lump TR in with FDR. There is no supporting record of greed, womanizing, or corruption on TR's part. To the contrary, TR established the Civil Rights Commission to eliminate corruption in the civil service system. The reason the Establishment Republican Party hated TR was that he wouldn't go along with the greed and corruption within the party at the time. He accepted the invite of the Progressive Party (and despite current historical rewrites, the Progressive Party of the early 20th century bore little resemblance to today's Communist Socialist Democratic Party) because he was appalled at the corruption he perceived in the Taft Administration.

TR's Square Deal had precious little to do with FDR's New Deal, FDR just appropriated the name to appeal to people who remembered his famous cousin.
The one thing negative I can think about TR was he was pretty reckless with the troops under his command. Unnecessarily exposing them to enemy fire, so he could 'get some'. At least, that's what I read some time ago.