Monday, February 9, 2009

History

I'm taking History 102 right now and I just read the funniest thing in my history book

"To hell with the constitution when the people want coal!"

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-Theodore Roosevelt


suprized me...

2 comments:

Unknown said...

i don't get it

what the heck was he talking about

Big Droo said...

there was a coal strike at the time and theo had the mine owners and the union leaders over to the white house to talk it out. america was really dependant on coal at the time. Theo threatend that he would march the U.S. army out to the coal mines if they wouldin't resolve that. the mine owners were like "you can't do that"
and theo was like
"to hell with the constitution when the people need coal"

it was confirmed by both parties that he said that