Yeah TR was great as Gov of NY from what i heard he was tough on crime yet he really hammered big business of issues or corruption which lead to many of his contemporary republicans working to remove him and eventually getting him to be McKinley's (was it McKinley?) VP in an efforts to neutralise him then McKinley died and thank god TR became Prez and the rest as they say is History...
Have you read the Alienist by Caleb Carr? It's a detective novel of sorts that takes place in late 19th century New York and has TR as a fairly important character... 
Caleb Carr was on CSPAN a few years ago talking about his books. Pretty creepy fellow. So I bought The Alienist. Nasty old New York City. The city was experimenting in new technologies for crimesolving. Good stuff. TR was a serious republican. Progressive, forthright, stern, not one to suffer fools gladly. My main complaint about the Novel is that it wasn't racist or sexist enough not to require some suspension of disbelief.
Oh, now I just got it. Your memorable line from FMJ was about "that jungian thing" I see the psychological connection. Weird.
