Chapter 7Each Can’t Offer Everything

“Though the two men had strikingly different temperaments—Roosevelt’s original and active nature at odds with Taft’s ruminative and judicial disposition—their opposing qualities actually proved complementary, allowing them to forge a powerful camaraderie and rare collaboration.”

—Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin on the relationship of opposites William Howard Taft and Teddy Roosevelt38

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