An interesting similarity between TR and FDR

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

Nevertheless their respective conditions made them into men they were.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth would agree, though perhaps not kindly—she famously told Newsweek during the '36 campaign that the difference between her father and FDR, was that the former had conquered his illness, while the latter was a "mollycoddle" peddling a "mollycoddle philosophy."