When Roosevelt was a member of the New York Legislature, Andrew D.
White, President of Cornell College, who had been keenly watching his
career, remarked to his class:
“Young gentlemen, some of you will enter public life. I call your
attention to Theodore Roosevelt, now in our legislature. He is on the
right road to success. It is dangerous to predict a future for a young
man, but let me tell you that if any man of his age was ever pointed
straight for the Presidency, that man is Theodore Roosevelt.”
Mr. White was not alone in his opinion. George W. Curtis, who was then
editor of Harper’s “Easy Chair,” thus answered a man who sneered at the
youth and obscurity of Roosevelt:
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