The Valley of Vision
The Valley of Vision
After losing to Woodrow Wilson in the presidential election of 1912, Theodore Roosevelt spent the next few years in a political wilderness and his Progressive Party eventually withered. Unable to turn his back on politics, Roosevelt returned reluctantly to the Republicans, although he was essentially without a party. In 1914, World War II broke over Europe, providing him an opportunity to display his warrior republicanism for the last time. The Wilson administration was reluctant to join the war in the beginning, an attitude that Roosevelt believed was a consequence of Wilson's progressivism. Wilson was reelected in November 1916 and promised to keep America out of war, crafting a foreign policy of national self-determination out of a politics of self-development. In 1918, Roosevelt received the tragic news that his son Quentin had been shot down by German fighter pilots behind enemy lines.
Keywords: presidential election, Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, Progressive Party, politics, World War II, warrior republicanism, progressivism, foreign policy, national self-determination
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