Was there a scandal around Theodore Roosevelt?

Answer 1

Theodore Roosevelt was strikingly scandal-free. The only tarnish on his record was the manner in which he handled the Brownsville Affair, a scandal in which a black army unit was framed for a shooting spree that left one dead in Brownsville Texas. Roosevelt dishonorably discharged the unit immediately, but later information emerged to indicate that the unit was not involved in the shooting at all; Roosevelt refused to reinstate the soldiers unless they could prove they were not in Brownsville at the time of the shooting. It was not until the Richard Nixon administration that the soldiers were given honorable discharges - there was only one member of the unit still alive by then.