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Whistlestop: Presidential History and Trivia

Roosevelt v. The Gorgon | The Oval Office

Whistlestop: Presidential History and Trivia

Slate Podcasts

Politics, History, News, Government

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

This episode of Whistlestop travels back to Feb 22, 1902, as Theodore Roosevelt prepares to receive the unhappy company of angry executives hoping to strong-arm the White House into ignoring their monopolies.


Show Notes: The elitist men’s club, the Corsair Club, was reviewed by The New York TImes in 1913.


Whistlestop is Slate's podcast about presidential history. Hosted by Political Gabfest host John Dickerson, each installment will revisit memorable moments from America's presidential carnival.


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Email: whistlestop@slate.com


Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank. Research by Brian Rosenwald.


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0:00.0

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0:03.4

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Geographic restrictions and teasencies apply 18 plus.

0:20.0

Hello and welcome to Whistlestop, a podcast of the presidency. I'm John Dickerson of

0:24.7

CBS at this point. You've played Monopoly, right? Well then you've had the experience, perhaps, when you were raking in the dough,

0:36.0

your pile of five hundreds towering high as your ownership of the right kind of properties, utilities, and

0:41.1

railroads, puts you in the finest fettle.

0:44.5

You don't spats wore white tie to dinner at home, and twirled the wax in your white mustache

0:51.2

until you could pierce the olive in your

0:54.1

mustache until you could pierce the olive in your martini

0:54.0

but then all of a sudden in the middle of your monopoly game your friend

0:57.8

not liking this kind of behavior at all

1:00.4

upended your merriment by flipping the monopoly board over entirely.

1:05.0

That is the irresistible tease to a whistle stop episode about the conflict between

1:10.0

J. Pierpont Morgan and President Theodore Roosevelt.

1:14.0

Morgan was the wealthy industrialist, after whom the monopoly man, known to his creator as

1:20.2

rich uncle Pennybagsbags was fashioned.

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