This is John Bachelor, a happy conversation with the author Neil Lankto, his book The Approaching Storm, Roosevelt

Wilson Adams and their Clash over America's Future, years years of 1916 and Theodore Roosevelt elected

President of the United States in 1904 did not run again in 1908 said he

wouldn't. He retired, turned the job over to William Howard Taft.

However, it is now 1916, years after Wilson's victory in 1912, thanks to Teddy Roosevelt splitting the Republican

Party.

Roosevelt again thinks that he can be president, and Neil here takes us into Roosevelt's thinking about how

he's going to do this, having fragmented the party in 1912 giving the victory to

Wilson, though Wilson did not command a majority, how does

Roosevelt convince the party that they can unite behind him?

It's a challenge. It's not unlike present-day circumstances of a

Republican nominee seeking to unite the party after fragmenting the party

these last years.

Teddy Roosevelt, the task ahead of him,

and it has an exciting twist.

What happens to Roosevelt in his campaign to be presidential nominee in

1916? More of this later, thank you.

There were signs that he was moving in that direction.

He felt for a long time that no one was listening to him because the great cause

he had been involved with since the war began was what they called preparedness, being prepared

militarily because our country was so limited in its military power.

We had 100,000 men or something like that, although our Navy was decent size.

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