Interesting points. It’s easy to look back on TR with rose tinted glasses, but he had his dark side too. I wonder how much of that has been whitewashed because of the fame of FDR, and unwillingness to sully the family name.
FDR didn’t sully the family name?
The two Roosevelts had a lot in common. Both really disliked the Germans and the Japanese. And both were interventionists at home and abroad (ironically, this similar policy is evaluated in radically different ways, with TR being considered a "jingo" and a super-patriot while FDR is considered by many of the same people to be a traitor and an internationalist).
As I understand it, the Roosevelt family was originally all Democrat but at the time of the Civil War most of them turned Republican (the remaining Democrat Roosevelts produced FDR). Ironically, TR's mother was a Confederate sympathizer from Georgia who was descended from Revolutionary War hero Archibald Bulloch. TR and FDR were distant cousins, as was Eleanor. FDR and Eleanor's wedding was held in the TR White House where Teddy gave her away.