Theodore Roosevelt Ends Major Coal Strike

J.P. Morgan’s attempt to play by his own rules doesn’t go over too well with Roosevelt. Later on, Roosevelt must also deal with a major coal strike, in this clip from "Theodore Roosevelt."

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[chaosXPRT]

Theodore Roosevelt was the manliest man to ever man.

[Iamrightyouarewrong]

Theodore Roosevelt is known to have been one of the most voracious readers in all of history. He could speed-read his way through up to three books per day.

[CwL-]

back when our leaders had brains and the marbles to do the right thing.

[Natasha-ewqu]

I swear, the actors in The That Built series do not get enough credit, they are amazing!

[MoltenUprisingMK]

Whoever plays Teddy just...wow, he does such a good job!

[NigelDeForrest-Pearce-cvek]

I Pray That In These Troubled Times, Our Merciful Lord Sends Us Another Theodore

[PremierCCGuyMMXVI]

Amazing President, Theodore Roosevelt is definitely top 5 best presidents in American history

[plannerjoy]

“The constitution is not as important as the people” Great thought

[katjagolden]

Just bc your parents were “friends” it doesn’t mean you get a “pas

[americanpaisareturns]

“In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American … There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag … We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language … and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”

Theodore Roosevelt 1907

[MangaCEI]

Who is the guy playing Mr. Morgan? Does he narrate audiobooks? I just love his stern voice.

[HarbingerOfBattle]

Take note kiddies! The captains of industry are back and their names, among others, are Bezos, Musk, Zuckerberg and Pichai.

[FitzArias]

I knew Teddy got shot at, but didn't know he had gotten run off the road. Wow. He was persistent and got the coal strike settled. J.P. Morgan thought he owned Teddy. Wrong call.

[tysonmcconnell]

Teddy and FDR, some of the only presidents who actually tried to do good things in the USA

[Railhog]

His cousin Franklin Roosevelt also was a revered leader under similar circumstances

[michaelboyce]

J.P. Morgan later formed His own Bank.

[starkilr]

The toughest ombré to ever sit in the White House aside from Washington and Jackson

[SanFernandoValleyRose]

Teddy R. is still my favorite President. To bad we have not had any good leaders since then.

[jwrailve]

Back when the United States had a government that worked for the people and not for the corporate big wigs. This is literally the exact opposite of how United States is now. Now it’d be like
“Jt!”
“ we’re both making billions ted!l
“Awesome! How else can we make more and take more from who makes us rich?“

[thesouthwillfallagain]

Imagine a modern day republican fighting back against big business like this? We probably wouldn’t have 5 dollar a gallon gas had we had leaders put private companies in place.