I appreciate the follow-up Kelly
. To be quite honest, I had to go find some facts on Teddy to completely understand who he was and what he stood for:
From:
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0760610.html
I took:
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Roosevelt embarked on a wide-ranging program of government reform and conservation of natural resources. He ordered antitrust suits against several large corporations, threatened to intervene in the anthracite coal strike of 1902, which prompted the operators to accept arbitration, and, in general, championed the rights of the “little man” and fought the “malefactors of great wealth.”
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That is what I knew about him but it is dangerous to assume things about people, when you don't have enough facts about them - stupidly, that is what I did. Kindda like thinking "wow, Hitler must have been cool, because he was a vegetarian!"
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