Comments by "Pyromania101" (@pyromania1018) on "Theodore Roosevelt: The Old Lion" video.

  1. The reason the Republicans wanted Roosevelt to go for the VP position was because they didn't like his habit of fighting corruption. They figured it would be a good way to shut him up. A single member, Mark Hannah, warned against this: "Don't you idiots realize there's only one life between that madman and the presidency?" When Roosevelt became president in the wake of McKinley's assassination, Hannah responded, "The goddamn cowboy's president?!" You also neglected to mention that he sent inspectors to look at meat-packing factories after reading a copy of Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle", and after reading their report, passed a lot of sanitation laws.
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