re: Who is the most accomplished U.S. President.

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Theodore Roosevelt was da man. cleaned up monopolies; got the Canal; put teeth into the Monroe doctrine; arbitrated the Russo-Japanese war; supported progressive domestic legislation; established national parks and forests.

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This motherfricker gets more credit than he deserves by FAR. He set the seeds for WW2 by tacitly approving Japanese annexation of Korea and his monroe doctrine ideas encouraged the japanese to set up the East Asia Coprosperity sphere which allowed them to imperialistically expand throughout asia.

Further, his placement of William Howard taft as governor of the philippines created more attrocities under american government than ever before or since. fricking Waterboarding was common and thousands of Filipinos died.

His fame as a western cowboy other than owning a ranch out west, was his cowboy outfit portraits, most of which were taken in NYC.

Dude was a MAJOR proponent of Aryan race ideas. Most of which were taught to him by his father and again at Harvard, where this was a common belief in the late 1800's and early 1900's.

He did some good stuff, but set this country up to get frickED later, causing millions of deaths through the war in the pacific.

He also gets credit for helping negotiate the Russo- Japanese war settlement, but he came in late to those discussions, many issues having already been decided.

TR gets Hero credit, when its largely undeserved.