Grover Cleveland, the greatest President this country has ever had!
...if you were rich in the 1890s, maybe.
That is not entirely true. Grover Cleveland did sign into existence the Interstate Commerce Commission, suggested the creation of a Fair Labor Standards Committee, established the Department of Labor in 1888, established the Department of Agriculture and increased corporate taxes through the Wilson-Gorman Act. Cleveland also vetoed a measure that would have excluded illiterate people from immigration to the United States, which was a fairly progressive thing to do.President Cleveland did try to hold back business and the wealthy but not to the extreme measures of an FDR.
These facts coupled with ignoring the will of the governor of Illinois in the Pullman Strike and also intervening in the Venezuela boundary dispute really makes me wonder why Grover the Good is such a libertarian icon.
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