Theodore Roosevelt was many things to many people: Scion of a privileged New York family, war here, grieving widower, distant father, police commissioner, New York governor & ultimately, twenty-sixth president of the United States. He was a man with an uncommonly common touch. He loved the American people & they in turn loved him. T.R. courted the strenuous life & one of his few regrets was that during WW I he had to send his four sons to fight & could not himself accompany them