Talk:Nelson W. Aldrich

Nelson A Rockefeller was Vice President
Rjensen says that Nelson A Rockefeller being Vice President was false info. How is that false since he did serve as Vice President from December 19 1974 to January 20 1977. Absolutely nothing false about it.--The Shadow Treasurer 02:21, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
 * No I said that VP was not Nelson's memorable role (his governorship and his power inside GOP were much more improtant than the nominal VP role.) 02:28, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Superior central banking system
User:Rjensen - on 26th May, 2007 I changed 'Aldrich led a team of experts to study the European national banks, discovering that Britain, Germany and France had a much superior central banking system' to 'Aldrich led a team of experts to study the European national banks, concluding that Britain, Germany and France had a much superior central banking system', but you reverted it. As the text stands, it implies that Britain, Germany and France did have a much superior central banking system, which is a point of view. 'Concluded' gets across the factual information on what the men thought without implying that their conclusions were correct. - Crosbiesmith 09:34, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Progressive?
It's kind of ridiculous to say Aldrich was a progressive. He was the chief defender of the banking and railroad interests at the expense of the agrarian interests in the south and west, which was the main political divide of his time. There were people who called themselves "progressive" on both sides of that divide, but Aldrich was against anti-trust and labor unions, and in favor of dear money and strict constructionism. I don't think that's consistent with the "progressive" label. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.34.177.182 (talk) 16:11, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

If I could pile on here, it is hard to qualify Aldrich as a progressive given the strong opposition of La Follette, the leader of the progressive movement, against Aldrich. Opposition which led to the, at the time, longest ever filibuster mounted against Aldrich's banking reforms. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 170.140.105.1 (talk) 22:46, 2 April 2010 (UTC)