An interesting similarity between TR and FDR

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Both Roosevelts were shaped by their struggle with serious medical condition. In FDR's case it was paralysis. In TR's a debilitating, almost fatal asthma. The difference, of course, was that TR suffered from the worst form of asthma as a child and managed to largely overcome this, while FDR has a robust health until his late 30s, when the paralysis struck. Nevertheless their respective conditions made them into men they were.

[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."

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

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."

TR's relatives were very hostile towards FDR in general.

[Kingpoleon]

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."

TR's relatives were very hostile towards FDR in general.

Largely because FDR was a huge jerk to them. He denounced Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and had Eleanor follow TRJ around, campaigning against him. He basically cost his cousin the Governorship for political gain.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Teddy was a old "Whig" style GOPer, like: Taft, McKinley, Harding, Coolidge, Lincoln, Grant and Hoover. Who believed in moderation and not polarization.  The heart of the Whig party was to get rid of slavery and lynching that the Dixiecrats like Wilson and Bryan-Jennings had no interest in doing.

FDR secularized the Civil Rights wing of the Democratic Party.

So, there is the similarity: compassionate conservative, found in the NE GOP part is the secular part of the Civil Rights wing of the GOP party. Like Snowe, Collins and Arlen Specter

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

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."

TR's relatives were very hostile towards FDR in general.

"Nick Roosevelt, who came from the 'Teddy' Roosevelt branch of the family...was a liberal Republican working now as an editorial writer for the staunchly Republican New York Herald-Tribune... A genial enough man, tolerant and civilized, he turned out to be an implacable foe of his cousin Franklin, who he accused in the wildest terms of trying to set up a dictatorship in America."

-William L. Shirer, The Nightmare Years, p. 227

(Shirer, for the record, is a liberal so far as the text allows us to glean)