With the worldwide (or at least halfway around the globe) responsibilities that arose from being a world power, „the president can never again be the mere domes- tic figure he has been throughout so much of our history. [Now that the U.S.]has risen to first rank in power and resources, [the president] must stand always at the front of our affairs and the office will be as big and as influential as the man who occupies it,“[89]  the young political scientist Woodrow Wilson prophesied.

   Theodore Roosevelt, the 23rd president of the United States, seemed to be created to fill the office Wilson described.