Mega FF. America was a third-tier country on the world stage before him, and a first-tier country by the time he was done.
The trust-busting and general concern for the poor are an added bonus. Plus he was the first to call for universal health care.
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Curiously enough, he was nowhere near as bellicose as President than when he was Vice-President under William McKinley. Or, for that matter, after his Presidency when the First World War broke out. If anything, he was the peace-maker during his White House years, negotiating an end to the Russo-Japanese War, for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906.
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