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It's the evening of January 1st, 1905, in a ballroom at the Arlington Hotel in New York.

A lavish formal dinner is underway.

At the top table, investment banker John Peerpont Morgan sips his wine as he looks

out across the glittering ballroom.

This dinner is raising funds for one of Peerpont's charitable endeavors, the American Academy

in Rome.

The banker has gathered together more than 100 of the nation's wealthiest and most powerful

individuals.

But no one here tonight carries more influence than the man Peerpont has chosen to sit alongside

him at the top table, the president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt.

Roosevelt took the White House following the assassination of President William Kinley.

But two months ago, Roosevelt won re-election on his own and will now remain president

for the next four years.

Peerpont lowers his glass and turns to Roosevelt.

Well, Mr. President, I'd like to offer you my personal congratulations on your electoral

victory.

Thank you, Mr. Morgan.

I would never have wished to become president in the circumstances I did, so it's gratifying

to know that the American people have voted for me in my own right.

I'm no longer a political accident.

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