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To: Publius

You mean Teddy Roosevelt cleaned house of the " Progressives " or did he take them with him ?


39 posted on 02/03/2005 10:52:14 AM PST by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM 53 : 1 The ( FOOL ) hath said in his heart , There is no GOD .)
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To: Prophet in the wilderness

TR took the Progressives with him when he bolted the Republican Party in 1912. Once the Bull Moose Party showed that it was a flash in the pan and the Republicans nominated Harding in 1920, the Progressives settled in with the Democrats.


40 posted on 02/03/2005 10:55:16 AM PST by Publius (The people of a democracy choose the government they want, and they ought to get it good and hard.)
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