13922. FOREIGN POLICY AND DIPLOMATIC STYLE: PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON VS. PRESIDENT TEDDY ROOSEVELT. A thoughtful and penetrating character analysis and comparison of the diplomatic styles of Wilson and Roosevelt based on a review of recent scholarly reappraisals of these two presidents' characters and of the intent and effect of their foreign policies. Argues that Roosevelt and Wilson were both, by virtue of their moralizing tendencies, more prone to intervention and didacticism in their foreign policies than more flexible, less ideological presidents might have been. Maintains that Roosevelt was not a blind imperialist; that he in fact justified his policies with moral and ethical arguments. Argues that Wilson, while judged a moralizing and messianic figure, was in fact less of an isolationist and a neutral party in his diplomacy than commonly believed. 20 pages, 45 footnotes, 19 bibliographic sources.