Theodore Roosevelt on the 1% in his State of the Union before he quit the Republican Party.

[Triana]

[tartan2]

1. Teddy Roosevelt is one of my heroes and this country owes him a huge debt!

If it wasn't for Teddy Roosevelt we would have condos in the "Grand Canyon"!!
Congress would not let Teddy Roosevelt put the Grand Canyon in the National Parks Service! So a pist off President Roosevelt declared the Grand Canyon a national monument so that it would be protected under the antiquities act.

[hfojvt]

2. he only quit the Republican Party in 1912

because he could not win the nomination for an unprecedented 3rd term.

[Zen Democrat]

7. Wasn't he only nominated once? He succeeded the assassinated McKinley.

[hfojvt]

11. but he was President for 3.5 years of McKinley's term

so basically he served two terms

and the future amendment would have prevented him from running again, since it stipulates that having served more than two years of somebody else's term counts as one term.

[FreakinDJ]

3. Wish we had more like him

[WI_DEM]

4. It should be noted, just for accuracy sake, that he did return to the GOP

and was hoping he would be the GOP nominee in 1920, but he died first.

[Faryn Balyncd]

5. And here, from the Progressive Party plartform he ran on in 1912:

Progressive Party Platform of 1912

Political parties exist to secure responsible government and to execute the will of the people.

From these great tasks both of the old parties have turned aside. Instead of instruments to promote the general welfare, they have become the tools of corrupt interests which use them impartially to serve their selfish purposes. Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

To destroy this invisible government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.

The deliberate betrayal of its trust by the Republican party, the fatal incapacity of the Democratic party to deal with the new issues of the new time, have compelled the people to forge a new instrument of government through which to give effect to their will in laws and institutions.


http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/progressive-platform-of-1912/

[Javaman]

6. Meh.

Listen to this podcast called Hardcore History by Dan Carlin then decide if you all think good old jingoistic Teddy was such a swell guy.

http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php/hh

It's the most recent podcast #49 - The American Peril.

[Blue_Tires]

10. Curiously entertaining...

How have I never heard of this Carlin before?

Does he write anywhere? I looked at his blog but he rarely updates it...

[Javaman]

13. He does primarily podcasting.

He did a several part series last year on the German invasion of Russia that was absolutely brilliant. It was called the Osterfront.

Because he does such an enormous amount of research into each podcast, they usualy come out about once every month and a half.

[ErikJ]

8. But he also said too much wealth is dangerous so he was for the estate tax.

Which didnt exist at his time.

No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned. Every dollar received should represent a dollar's worth of service rendered – not gambling in stocks, but service rendered. The really big fortune, the swollen fortune, by the mere fact of its size acquires qualities which differentiate it in kind as well as in degree from what is possessed by men of relatively small means. Therefore, I believe in a graduated income tax on big fortunes, and in another tax which is far more easily collected and far more effective – a graduated inheritance tax on big fortunes, properly safeguarded against evasion and increasing rapidly in amount with the size of the estate.
– Theodore Roosevelt, speech at Osawatomie, Kansas, "The New Nationalism" (August 31, 1910)

[Blue_Tires]

9. Well, tbf that was also during an era when we actually BUSTED monopolies...

[Wilms]

12. ^