[AnAmericanMother]

The bullheadedness was a necessary part of his character. Without it, he would never have built himself up from a sickly, half-blind asthmatic weakling; he would never have fought the entrenched New York political interests in the state legislature; he would never have survived the simultaneous deaths of his wife and mother . . . his whole life was one long struggle.

He shouldn't have done that Amazon basin expedition; he shouldn't have run as a third party candidate; he shouldn't have feuded with Taft; he shouldn't have continued his very strenuous exercise against doctor's orders . . . but without that stubbornness he would never amounted to anything -- would have just been another young, sickly, effete, layabout scion of an old New York family.

[Bayou City]

The bullheadedness was a necessary part of his character. Without it, he would never have built himself up from a sickly, half-blind asthmatic weakling; he would never have fought the entrenched New York political interests...

Well said Mom..

[Johnny_Cipher]

The bullheadedness was a necessary part of his character.

In my opinion, that is a trait that the current holder of that office shares to some degree with TR. It would have been so easy for GWB to merely pay lip service to Saddam's brutality and treachery in Iraq. After the misdeeds of Krintong, its refreshing to have a leader who does exactly what he says he will do.

[PoorMuttly]

Muttly has visited his grave for years...and when he was in distress...composed himself on the Great T.R.'s porch, adjoining the trophy room, and the moose-head with T'R.'s Rough Riders hat, and binoculars.

He was a truly great man, to whom I am deeply grateful.