What do Ross Perot and Theodore Roosevelt have in common?

Answer 1

They are both members of the Republican Party, though their politics are markedly different. Both TR and GWB prefer to assert the power of the President to influence international affairs, though TR's motto was "speak softly and carry a big stick" while GWB has been more inclined to use the "stick" (and his entire party is now paying the consequences, to say nothing of the thousands of families his policies have ruined in the US, Afganistan, and Iraq).

Answer 2

The similarities at the outset of Obama's and Roosevelt's presidencies are uncanny, and surely not accidental. One obvious similarity is the messianism. After Roosevelt was elected in 1932, there was serious discussion about the need for a dictator. Roosevelt seems to have been tempted by this talk (Alter's prologue recounts how he initially planned to tell a veterans' group that "I reserve the right to command you in any phase of the situation which now confronts us" but deleted the language from his speech). But he resisted the temptation, much as Obama seems to be wary of the excesses of the current adulation in the press and elsewhere.

Second, Roosevelt revolutionized communication between the president and the American people, most famously with his "fireside chats." Roosevelt harnessed radio to speak directly to the people, in a way previous presidents had not. President Obama's release of his weekly message in video form on YouTube, and his use of the internet throughout his campaign, seems designed to revolutionize presidential communication in the internet era in much the same way.

Answer 3

Both achieved many votes as third party candidates. Perot was the most successful third-party candidate since Roosevelt (1912 election with the Bull Moose Party) in the 1992 election against George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

Answer 4

they both wn the nobel peace price also that there self made men

Answer 5

both are president.