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To: bentway who wrote (760684)	1/1/2014 2:24:26 PM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Recommended By d[-_-]b Respond to of 1575178

"make more than the POTUS, who has the hardest job on Earth?" are you kidding me, what CEO plays as much golf as obama, takes as many vacations as Obama. shit a trashman works harder than Obama

To: bentway who wrote (760684)	1/1/2014 2:55:07 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 1575178

Hey, I had to start somewhere, but What the hell has Hoover got to do with it? Besides, I had a better year than he did. Anecdote of his response on being asked how he felt holding out for a salary higher than that of the US President, (variously reported as having been in 1929 or 1930) as quoted in Baseball: A History of America's Game (2002) by Benjamin G. Rader, p. 134 Unsourced variants : Hey, I had a better year than he did. Why not, I had a better year than he did. I know, but I had a better year than Hoover. A man who knows he's making money for other people ought to get some of the profits he brings in. Don't make any difference if it's baseball or a bank or a vaudeville show. It's business, I tell you. There ain't no sentiment to it. Forget that stuff. On his demand for $52,000 a year in his 1922 contract, as quoted in The Rivals : The Boston Red Sox Vs. the New York Yankees; An Inside History (2004) by Dan Shaughnessy, p. 40 Babe Ruth, a famous American redistributionist from the last century