Editor’s note: It was reported just prior to press time that Walter Logan settled with the District Attorney’s Office for $1.7 million. The office also issued a retraction and apology.
My favorite president, Teddy Roosevelt, often referred to his office as a “bully pulpit,” meaning that it was a prominent position from which he could preach his views and the world had no choice but to listen and consider them. Publicity intoxicated Roosevelt and he loved forcefully expressing his decisive opinions. The mere fact that Roosevelt was the president made certain that the press would take note when he extolled the “strenuous life” or environmental preservation. However, it also meant that when he denounced his adversaries as the “malefactors of great wealth,” or as guilty of “all forms of iniquity from the oppression of wage workers to defrauding the public,” it caused them permanent stigma. One hundred years later, the reputations of the financiers and industrialists of the late Gilded Age, private citizens whom Roosevelt frequently targeted, still have not recovered.
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