[Am-info] Re: Presidents Enforcing Anti-trust law

[Mitch Stone]

On Sunday, March 31, 2002, at 07:27 PM, T.Guilbert wrote:

> I think you have forgotten Nelson Rockefeller and his protege, Charles
> Gooden, and William Scranton and Senator <mumble> Kuchel of
> California.  I will accept that perhaps the last Republican
> _president_ not enthralled to corporate interests was Taft (I have
> problems calling Taft "progressive"), and Wendell Wilkie perhaps was
> the last progressive Republican nominee for president.  But there have
> been occasional progressive R's since Wilkie.

I didn't forget -- these guys were not presidents, though Rocky made a run 
at it, if memory serves. Again, my point was, we had no reason to expect G.
W. Bush to be a "trust buster," if for no other reason then no Republican 
president since Taft has been one, and for no other reason then Bush said 
as much.


   Mitch Stone
   mitch@accidentalexpert.com