David Rosenthal: belief

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…At this point, a lot of them are defending themselves and throwing Rockefeller under the bus. They're saying, oh, Standard Oil may have acted in this illegal way, but I certainly didn't. You even have executives at Standard Oil talking and giving first-party accounts to Ida Tarbell to try and shield themselves. Exactly. The primary guy who talked to Tarbell and did this was an executive and a board member named Henry Rogers. Chernow finds this quote. I think he said this to Tarbell. This quote from Rogers says, "We told him (Rockefeller, J. D.) that he had to keep the title of President. These cases against us were pending in the courts, and we told him if any of us had to go to jail, he would have to go with us." It's the freaking mafia. It's amazing. This is it. Rockefeller can stay on the run. He can stay on the lam as long as he wants, but the jig is up. This is like the end of The Sopranos, I forget whatever the situation was, but Tony's getting whacked here. Standard Oil is getting whacked. We don't know if Tony was whacked.…

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