The good news is that Teddy Roosevelt was the original Teddy Bear, and fuzzy bears with little blue soldier suits and wire-rimmed glasses turned out to be the marketing concept of the century. The bad news is that Mr.-Aren't-Stuffed-Animals-Cute also spent all his spare time shooting every animal he could point his gun at. He wasn't fond of killing people, but it's hard to make it in politics on bison and rhinos alone, so he shed more than his share of human blood, too. There's a lesson in there somewhere if you want to be remembered as a great ruler and get your face carved on a mountain: be sure you get royalties for stuffed animals that look like you.
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