Professor of history Gary Gerstle says that Theodore Roosevelt was much more open to immigrants from southern and eastern Europe than were many of his contemporaries, including close friend Henry Cabot Lodge. Nonetheless, Professor Gerstle explains, Roosevelt was adamant that American immigrants renounce any connection to their former countries. "He compared the assimilation process to marriage," Professor Gerstle notes, "...and just as men were expected to have only one wife, he expected all immigrants to have only one country."

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