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As vice president, he put together his own army unit that was like the Avengers in 1898 or something. It was made up of, like, famous college athletes, glee club singers, old west outlaws, Texas rangers, and Native Americans. So, that's kind of nuts and people really ate it up. (The whole Spanish-American war was like that. There was another army unit that was commanded by an elderly Southern politician who'd been a Confederate officer, and in one battle, he had a fit of quasi-dementia where he shouted "Come on, boys! We got the damned Yankees on the run!" Stuff like that was fun to Americans at the time and for a long time afterwards.)
He also busted up monopolies as president. He was also instrumental in establishing the US as an Imperial power.