In the Panama Canal he left the most enduring, as it was the most visible, monument of his administration Much criticized at the moment for his action in regard to it, which time since then has justified and which history will praise, the great fact remains that the canal is there.
Lodge acknowledges the Panama Canal as a significant and lasting achievement of Roosevelt's presidency.
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He was unfailingly attractive, because he was always perfectly natural and his own unconscious self.
He was also--and this is very revealing and explanatory, too, of his vast popularity--a man of ideals.
His ideal of public service was to be found in his life, and as his life drew to its close he had to meet his ideal of sacrifice face to face.
No man ever prized sentiment or hated sentimentality more than he.