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Article: Busted trust. (Capitol Ideas).(corporate reform, Washington D.C.)
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- August 1, 2002
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If we have done anything wrong," J.P. Morgan famously told Theodore Roosevelt during a tense confrontation at the White House in February 1902, "send your man to my man and they can fix it up."
None of the CEOs who have streamed into Washington in recent months, hoping to contain the capitol's sudden passion for corporate reform, were undiplomatic enough to utter words like those, at least in public. But in the century that passed between the private meeting of TR and the aging, cigar-smoking chief who led the country's industrial revolution and the arrival at the Bush White House of younger, Perrier-sipping creators of the information age, less has changed than ...