David Rosenthal: uncertainty

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…It's crazy because, at the same time, he's building all these medical universities and medical schools that are attached to all these other colleges. These thousands of letters are coming in asking for money, and he's dodging the government because they keep trying to get him in court. He's like a Bond villain. It's amazing. It's so great. Archbold refused to let him resign. They're like, I don't know where you are. Sorry, bud. 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.…

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