The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.
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Nationality: American Type: Journalist Born: 1878 Death: 1954 |
“Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.”
“I think that will be a lot of fun for audiences to get the same stream of consciousness that was going through my head at the time. It was very exciting to suddenly recall what I was feeling at the time.”