[molybdenum]

The bio I read, in two volumes, was very friendly to him. I guess that he thrust himself into a super-patriarchal role, which he thought in that era the people "needed"; his own father was by the bio-author's account, a really good man who had the intelligence and freedom to develop his company, was very thoughtful & generous when he became rich. Maybe Teddy tried to emulate him, but his mistake then was he treated the public sector more like private.

I need to take a look at those 2 books again.

All thru school, we were told TR, Woodrow Wilson, & FDR were great presidents. We know better now.

As for labor laws, something had to be done about child labor, starvation wages, etc.--yet even though laws were enacted, the union seized control by the '30s. The worst move of all was to allow civil "servants" to form labor unions, and now SEIU covers so many workers and has accumulated so much power, that these 2 threaten the country as much as 0 and his thugs--they go hand in hand.

[nicollo]

You can credit TR with opposing unionization of federal workers. Then again, his rhetoric encouraged that type of agitation.