Average Man Quotes
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:
The “man on the Clapham omnibus” signifies the ordinary person. Clapham is rides on the bus route in South London.
Harding was certainly ordinary, but he was not, in the opinion of most historians, a very good president.
Although this was written in 1924, it could have been written at most times since where the national debt was substantial.
