 You say on page 19 when he was appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Congress at the onset of the war, he refused any salary, asking only to be reimbursed when the war concluded. He should have been killed numerous times in battle. What happened to Valley Forge in that cold, brutal winter was unbelievable. He could have kept it together. And the fact he could beat the British was also incredible. I need to get on. There's so many, so little time. Teddy Roosevelt is one of my top two or three presidents. Some of the stuff that Teddy Roosevelt went through.