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As for domestic policy, the high-water mark of federal government power previously was coincidently during the tenure of TR’s distant cousin, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in the New Deal.

From Barron's

Mr. Brown notes that historians routinely place Roosevelt fourth among presidential greats, after Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and TR’s distant relative Franklin Roosevelt.

From The Wall Street Journal

Often called the first modern president, TR expanded the office’s power and influence, wielding his clout to conserve public land, regulate corporations and bolster America’s status as a world power.

From The Wall Street Journal

But Mr. Brown, in his refusal to credit counterbalancing positives, such as Roosevelt’s prodigious intellect or his genuine empathy for the less fortunate, risks reducing TR to a one-dimensional straw man.

From The Wall Street Journal

TR was conservative and progressive, internationalist and nationalist, conservationist and hunter.

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