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Roosevelt
Title: Roosevelt
Category: Society & Culture / People
Details: Words: 1077 | Pages: 4.6 (approximately 235 words/page)
Roosevelt
Chapter nine of Richard Hofstadter’s, American Political Traditions, is titled, Theodore Roosevelt: Conservative as Progressive. By this title Hofstadter is referring to how Roosevelt's methods in government were very conservative when looking at the goals the Progressive Party was trying to achieve. He was a man of inferior physical stature and therefore, had a complex, which ruled his actions. There was always a sense of fear and insecurity in him and because of that,
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his climb to power. He knew that he needed the big businesses and corporations in order to keep putting money in his pocket so, even though he regulated and broke up trusts, he didn't accept the muckraker's revelations of business unless they were absolutely true. Keeping most corruption or scandal under wraps was what he was going for and therefore, he had to control business without paralyzing it. Roosevelt's political beliefs essentially became negative and
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