Under This Roof by Paul Brandus

Author:Paul Brandus
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781493019311
Publisher: Lyons Press

Beyond changing the White House, Theodore Roosevelt changed the way in which Americans saw the presidency itself. It was seen, more than ever, as a center of great and unmatched power, power wielded by just one central authority. Not since Andrew Jackson—who loved to wrap himself up in his trademark blue cape and make dramatic entrances in his own lustrous new East Room—had the citizenry seen a president with such a flair for showmanship. Indeed, “his symbolic stature was more powerful in its time than Jackson’s or Lincoln’s had been” in theirs.52

The staid, stuffy Victorian era was no more; the White House was now occupied by a man who was determined to liven things up—and to have things his way. It was all quite calculated: “To the formal setting he gave a common touch with humor and incongruous behavior, turning the simplest occasion into a theatrical production.”53 In his home, in his country, on the world stage, Theodore Roosevelt was determined to be at the center of everything, and he was.

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