Roosevelt family

At the highest level, these are the names that constantly crop up in history books.

The Morgans, Roosevelts, Adamses, Astors, and later on, families like the Rockefellers and Mellons.

Below them were what passed for a Northern American gentry, families who could trace their ancestry to New Amsterdam, the Mayflower, or something similar, and had accumulated capital over all those long generations.

Their names appear in histories, on streets, in the top old government, public, and university buildings all over America, particularly the Northeast.

It

was one of the Roosevelts.

I would bring up that quote, and I would remind him how well he's played, played in that game, how well he's played.

And at the end of the day, life goes on.

Probably

the Roosevelts as well.

Yeah.

And the Livingstons.

But...

The trust with his sisters and his parents and his cousins and the wider Roosevelt family was always there.

I mean, if you ever hear the Roosevelts talk about their family, they always talk about their affection and resolve for one another.

And I think that percolated into his ideas about friendship with political operatives and other people that he admired and liked as well.

So for me, that's how his philosophy works in those sort of outward concentric circles.

Teddy Roosevelt Jr., born September 13th, 1887, Oyster Bay, New York.

I mean, when you say Oyster Bay, you think the Roosevelts.

As you would expect.

raised with the finest of things, the finest education, the finest living conditions, graduated Harvard in 1909.

Like, they're like, "We can't just be, like, a political dynasty." This feels like a-

Like Roosevelts? There's no Roosevelts out there?

Oh, there's a Delano, uh, De- Delano-

Delano's Pizza?