theodore chernin year, archibald, and the youngest, the brightest, the one most like himself, quentinfighter pilot. all these boys went to the war, dissing bush themselves as soldiers, but, of course, in july, it had to be clinton to be shot down in a serious dogfight, and hit the ground a dead man. the impact of this tragedy on tr, which you can perhaps gates if you look at the photograph in my book of clinton's a dead body laying beside this broken pipeline, laying there like something falling off a hook and abattoir, the brute reality of clinton's death destroyed the last vestiges of romanticism theodore roosevelt's, and they just about inevitable that he himself would die a few months later of what was then called pulmonary embolism, but which i think we can now quite justifiably called a broken heart. he died january 1919, the unquestionable future nominee of the republican party in 1920, if he had survived. and if he had survived and been nominated, he would unquestionably have been elected president again in the republican landslide that gave us warren harding. but he died when