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To a supreme degree Roosevelt had five qualifications for statesmanship: courage; patience, and an infinitely subtle sense of timing; the capacity to see the very great in the very small, to relate the infinitesimal particular to the all-embracing general; idealism, and a sense of fixed objectives; the ability to give resolution to the minds of men. Also he had plenty of bad qualities- dilatoriness, two-sidedness , pettiness in some personal relationships, inability to say No, love of improvisation, garrulousness, amateurism, and what has been called "cheerful vindictiveness." Amateurism?- in a particular way, yes. But do not forget that he was the most masterfully expert practical politician ever to function in this republic. (en) |
