Theodore Roosevelt absolutely hated the principles of the Founding Fathers

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[Little Bill]

My Grandfather, Born 1886, hated TR, the Bride at every Wedding and the Corpse at every funeral, because of his ego and anti-republican ways.

[OneLoyalAmerican]

Greetings ProgressingAmerica:

TR was also the first President to run the USA into deficit spending without a war. TR burned through the entire US Navy budget by issuing far east sailing orders to the “White Fleet;” and stranding the fleet overseas without cash for purchasing coal to sail home; until Congress borrowed money to bring them home.

Cheers,
OLA

[OneLoyalAmerican]

Greetings EEGator & cumbo78:

TR was created out of whole cloth by the lickspittle, "Yellow Journalism" press controlled by William Randolf Hearst; just as 0bama was created out of whole cloth by a lickspittle fawning press through "journalistism."

There was no battle of San Juan Hill for which the "Roughriders" action TR would earn the Medal Of Honor. And TR's action hardly meets the award standard for a MOH citation.

In fact, May 11, 1898 at Cardenas, Cuba; a genuine MOH hero of Spanish American War emerged. Captain of US Revenue Cutter Hudson, 1st Lieutenant Frank Newcomb. Newcomb and his crew placed USRC Hudson into harms way to defend, and then tow USN vessel Winslow to safety. Winslow was earlier crippled and disabled adrift by the ashore battery. Without Newcomb's action, Winslow would have made for a great war prize.

Because this loss at Cardenas was a major embarrassment for the US Navy, reporting on Newcomb's story was squashed by Hearst. History repeating in this second coming of progressivism?

Fair and biased,
OLA

[OneLoyalAmerican]

Oops, forgot you in the “To” line of my previous.

[Billthedrill]

You are quite correct about Hearst and TR's career benefiting from his propaganda. It was uncannily like 0bama's '08 campaign.

That said, there really was a Battle of San Juan Hill, or San Juan Heights. Bloodiest battle of the war. It was won largely by the 10th Cavalry - the Buffalo Soldiers - who Hearst tactfully left out of the story. Interesting, too, because Black Jack Pershing was with them. That is not to disparage the 3d Cavalry - the unit to which the Rough Riders were attached - who assaulted Kettle Hill with the 10th. There weren't any cowards on those hills, including the Spanish, who laid a 3/1 kill ratio on the attacking Americans.

TR's MOH was, IIRC, really really posthumous. I'm not a big TR fan but I'm not sure he would have approved.

[OneLoyalAmerican]

Greetings Billthedrill:

Great soldiers soldiered on both sides in Hearst’s War. WRH spiked stories which included the Buffalo Soldiers and the enlisteds from aboard the USRC Hudson; as not to distract from Hearst’s pre-determined headlines and “TR, Hero” scripts. Hearst didn’t even like the charted name “Kettle Hill” for TR’s faux heroism. So WRH cast the mold for Hollywood’s creative license style; renaming the location “San Juan Hill.” No doubt this summer we’ll see Hollywood re-write Barry Soroto’s extraordinary record in a similar manner.

What’s I find most fascinating, during McKinley’s era Congress knew better. So Congress actually commissionioned special gold and silver recognition medals for the USRC Hudson officers’ exceptional bravery; the only of their kind in US history. These are not Medals Of Honor.

Which leaves SN1 Douglas Munro the USCG’s sole MOH winner.

Cheers,
OLA