Reply #33: I pick TR [View All]

other Presidents became blessed with greatness due to a crisis. who knows how history would have judged them without their war or great domestic problem. Yet Teddy Roosevelt manages to define the Presidency, set precedents, create a radical foreign policy vision, with revolutionary domestic achievements in progressive reforms and environmental policy in a time of peace. due to his great character and energy he alteres America's role and ushers in the 20th century by his own will as opposed to being tested by a great trial such as a depression or war. with the exception of maybe Jefferson and Washington what other President ranks among the greats without a crisis