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To: JohnM who wrote (18493)	2/10/2002 8:13:10 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

The Doonesbury quote seems a little out of character with the "big stick" thing. Anyway, TR's trustbusting association alone would certainly be enough to discredit him among the current GOP generation. There's a bunch of other stuff that would put him at odds with W's crowd. From a review of Morris's recent biography. Roosevelt made the most noise, however, by picking a fight with the nouveau riche industrialists. Roosevelt himself was a brownstone Knickerbocker, whose caste marks included Groton, Harvard and the Porcellian club. He turned against his class, Morris suggests, in part because he found rich men boring. ''You expect a man of millions,'' Roosevelt said, ''to be a man worth hearing; but as a rule they don't know anything outside their own businesses.'' But his chief motive in taking on the great début de siècle industrial combinations was a growing conviction that they were taking unfair advantage of their competitors and customers. ''I am not deeply interested in'' economic issues, he admitted as his administration wound down; ''my problems are moral problems, and my teaching has been plain morality.'' Roosevelt's friend Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. warned that ''no part of the conduct of life'' would be safe from government interference on such vague principles. But Roosevelt and his fellow Progressives were off to the races. query.nytimes.com