Average Person Quotes
Paige was one of the baseball greats, but played most of his long career in the Negro League as baseball racism prevented him and other Blacks from competing.
In 1906 President Theodore Roosevelt took the lead in a legislative attempt to produce railroad rate reform. He took on leaders of his own party who attempted to defeat and then "water down" the bill. In the middle of the fight he changed his position, abandoned his allies and accepted weakening amendments in what became known as "Roosevelt's Surrender." One of the senators who had supported the President on the stronger legislation complained: