Theodore roosevelt video biography of abraham lincoln

Theodore Roosevelt considered Abraham Lincoln to have been one of the greatest leaders of the United States and many of his insights into leadership were formed from his reading about the 16th President.

In  a letter from his office, Roosevelt wrote:

“I am mighty glad you like what I have been doing in the governmental field.

I do not have to tell you that my great hero is Abraham Lincoln, and I have wanted while President to be the representative of the “plain people” in the sense that he was – not, of course, with the genius and power that he was, but according to my lights, along the same lines.”  – White House, June 13, 1906

To understand his perspective it is helpful to understand the Roosevelt family connection to Lincoln.

“Teddy’s” father, Theodore Roosevelt, Sr. was a “Lincoln Republican” and during the war between the States, he and two friends, William Earl Dod