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but his Foreign Policy was also important

I love this song about Andrew Jackson “Old Hickory” Fighting the British. https://youtu.be/50_iRIcxsz0

yeah

He had Empire in man

That's super manly

he can be remembered for those two things

Sailed his boats to Japan

Suez

Cuba

etc

and the Panama Canal

that's probably third

Panama was what I was thinking

He did stuff in Mexico too

he can be remembered as a Regulator, for his foreign policy in making the US an Imperial power, and for building the Canal

Regulator

idts

lol

that was his main focus

That sounds like a feckless bureaucrat

domestically

He actually forged

no I don't think so

He didn't just take over something of someone elses and run it

its something you see time and again in history

Regulator sounds like a feckless inheritor

Not a forger

making an empire is one thing, but making it a cohesive system is another

many great men were also great regulators

one of the perennial parts of real empire building is regulation

weights and measures

If you win the territories, you aren't just regulating

things like that

TR conquered

actually he endorsed this group https://infogalactic.com/info/Simplified_Spelling_Board and would have implemented the first wave of changes on the federal level if Congress didn't explicitly put a stop to it

Roosevelt ultimately decided to rescind the order. Brander Matthews, a friend of Roosevelt and one of the chief advocates of the reform as chairman of the Simplified Spelling Board, remonstrated with him for abandoning the effort. Roosevelt replied on December 16, 1906: "I could not by fighting have kept the new spelling in, and it was evidently worse than useless to go into an undignified contest when I was beaten. Do you know that the one word as to which I thought the new spelling was wrong – thru – was more responsible than anything else for our discomfiture?" Next summer Roosevelt was watching a naval review when a press boat marked "Pres Bot" chugged ostentatiously by. The President waved and laughed with delight.

Lot of big names of the time there

yep

Mark Twain is supposedly in my family tree

nice