Teddy Roosevelt's Hidden Legacy.Michael Michael, archangel Michael (mī`kəl) [Heb.,=who is like God?], archangel prominent in Christian, Jewish, and Muslim traditions. In the Bible and early Jewish literature, Michael is one of the angels of God's presence. McMenamin ("Teddy Roosevelt's Hidden Legacy," June June: see month. ) convincingly shows not only that Theodore Roosevelt had his own foreign policy, but that it was infinitely better than and antithetical an·ti·thet·i·cal also an·ti·thet·ic adj. 1. Of, relating to, or marked by antithesis. 2. Being in diametrical opposition. See Synonyms at opposite. to Woodrow Wilson's. What he does not say is that it was Roosevelt who enabled Wilson's foreign policy to come into existence. In 1912, after failing to win the Republican nomination for president (thanks to party bosses who didn't want him), Roosevelt ran anyway, as an independent Bull Moose Bull Moose n. A member or supporter of the U.S. Progressive Party founded to support the presidential candidacy of Theodore Roosevelt in 1912. [From the party's emblem.] . This split the Republican vote and enabled Wilson's victory. Given Wilson's thoroughly destructive impact on the history of the 20th century and the likelihood that history would have been different and better had Roosevelt been president during the Great War, it is ironic that Roosevelt's biggest legacy is that he enabled it all to happen. Michael Nollet Melcher-Dallas, IA |
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