Mark Hanna person
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Claims (11)
Mark Hanna supported
Panama Canal Construction host_asserted
“So Roosevelt immediately reaches out to Hannah to mend bridges between them because they'd had some political differences. And, well, they kind of mended the bridges. So Hannah, here we are in 1901, 1902, and he becomes a big supporter of t…”
▶ The Shadow State 56 The Kingmaker Mark Hanna @ 1:24:42
Mark Hanna member_of
John D. Rockefeller host_asserted
“Robert Behrens. So he goes to high school in Cleveland, and his classmate and lifelong friend was a guy by the name of, oh, John D. Rockefeller. Yeah. How many times do we say all roads lead to Rockefeller? Yeah. I want you to keep that rel…”
▶ The Shadow State 56 The Kingmaker Mark Hanna @ 1:11:24
Mark Hanna married
Charlotte Rhodes host_asserted
“marries a woman named Charlotte Rhodes in 1864. He'd been courting her for about a year and a half. Her father didn't like him because father had supported Stephen Douglas in the Illinois governor's race and Mark Hanna had supported Abraham…”
▶ The Shadow State 56 The Kingmaker Mark Hanna @ 1:12:00
Mark Hanna supported
Abraham Lincoln host_asserted
“marries a woman named Charlotte Rhodes in 1864. He'd been courting her for about a year and a half. Her father didn't like him because father had supported Stephen Douglas in the Illinois governor's race and Mark Hanna had supported Abraham…”
▶ The Shadow State 56 The Kingmaker Mark Hanna @ 1:12:00
Mark Hanna supported
Ulysses S. Grant host_asserted
“in the 1860s and remember everything's expanding west they're building railroads towns factories you need coal you need iron they're making money so by the age of 40 mark hannah is a millionaire and he decides to get to politics so in 1868 …”
▶ The Shadow State 56 The Kingmaker Mark Hanna @ 1:13:06
Mark Hanna founded
Cleveland Herald host_asserted
“If you only have a gold standard, there's not enough money supply. And so the wealth doesn't spread down to the people. So a lot of the populists wanted to have silver be convertible currency, which would increase the money supply and help …”
▶ The Shadow State 56 The Kingmaker Mark Hanna @ 1:15:16
Edwin Cowles carried_out_attack
Mark Hanna host_asserted
“Over the newspaper? Yeah. He does not like having another newspaper in town. There's only room for one more Republican newspaper in town, and Cowles owns the Cleveland Leader. So he would viciously attack in his paper Hannah for five years …”
▶ The Shadow State 56 The Kingmaker Mark Hanna @ 1:15:51
Mark Hanna supported
James Garfield host_asserted
“the Midwest camp and the Southern camp, although they don't really carry any votes. It matters at the convention. And Hannah basically pays very effective at fundraising, pays for all of Garfield's personal expenses and what's called the fr…”
▶ The Shadow State 56 The Kingmaker Mark Hanna @ 1:17:32
Mark Hanna supported
William McKinley host_asserted
“And Ohio tried to get him to get the Republican nomination, but it just didn't happen. And, you know, as hard as Hannah tried, as good as he was at glad-handing, he couldn't get it done. So in 1896, he realizes, I'm going to have to, Sherma…”
▶ The Shadow State 56 The Kingmaker Mark Hanna @ 1:18:40
Mark Hanna appointed
John Sherman Cooper host_asserted
“There's a reason we finished with this, because it really kind of puts micing on the cake of a lot of our stories. So what Hannah does next is he gets Sherman named the Secretary of State under McKinley, who wins in 1896. Hannah then steps …”
▶ The Shadow State 56 The Kingmaker Mark Hanna @ 1:20:26
William Nelson Cromwell funded
Mark Hanna host_asserted
“In the final debate, Senator Hanna gave an impassioned speech for the Panama, which notes Cromwell had basically prepared his speech for him. He spoke for hours, he was too exhausted to go on, and he brought out all of the factors of why it…”
▶ Here is the real story behind Panama. Please share it with the ignorant ppl on here trying to propagandize us AGAIN @ 19:11
Mentions (29)
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in the works for decades at this point and had already been started. With the Investigation Commission to be appointed by the president, Cromwell ingratiated himself with President William McKinley. His right-hand man was Senator Mark Hanna…
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was involved with the Panama Railroad that was there to take advantage of the Panama Canal. Meeting Hannah in Simmons' office, Cromwell extended the benefits of the Panama Route and donated $60,000 of the new Panama Canal Company's money to…
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In the final debate, Senator Hanna gave an impassioned speech for the Panama, which notes Cromwell had basically prepared his speech for him. He spoke for hours, he was too exhausted to go on, and he brought out all of the factors of why it…
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It is the best broad liberal American policy for which we stand in the building of a world canal. I sympathize with all of those who in other days laboring for the canal had but one star to guide them, Nicaragua, and who must now naturally …
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So Ruth Hannah McCormick leads into one of my favorite guys, Mark Hannah. That's her father. He's born in 1937. I'm sorry, 1837 and died in 1904. He's born in New Lisbon, Ohio, but quickly moved to Cleveland. We've talked about these power …
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Robert Behrens. So he goes to high school in Cleveland, and his classmate and lifelong friend was a guy by the name of, oh, John D. Rockefeller. Yeah. How many times do we say all roads lead to Rockefeller? Yeah. I want you to keep that rel…
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marries a woman named Charlotte Rhodes in 1864. He'd been courting her for about a year and a half. Her father didn't like him because father had supported Stephen Douglas in the Illinois governor's race and Mark Hanna had supported Abraham…
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Somehow, the guy burned to the ground. Now, there is no indication that that was one of the refineries that Rockefeller burned down to kill the competition, but it's a data point. He also tried a steamer business. That one sank to the botto…
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in the 1860s and remember everything's expanding west they're building railroads towns factories you need coal you need iron they're making money so by the age of 40 mark hannah is a millionaire and he decides to get to politics so in 1868 …
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is because they're still printing greenbacks, which is basically fiat currency, which they used to finance the Civil War. Small pause. I've talked about this before, but there's a theory out there that in 1871, the United States became inco…
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sorry, the War of Northern Aggression, the European banks wanted to lend money to the Union and charge over 30% interest. That wasn't going to happen, so Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury, got the name of, I'll get into him later, Vance, …
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The problem with that, and the reason Hannah is supporting Grant, is the greenbacks were going for about 35 cents on the dollar with his trade with Canada. Canada is not honoring the greenback. So he's hoping that Grant would stabilize curr…
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If you only have a gold standard, there's not enough money supply. And so the wealth doesn't spread down to the people. So a lot of the populists wanted to have silver be convertible currency, which would increase the money supply and help …
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Over the newspaper? Yeah. He does not like having another newspaper in town. There's only room for one more Republican newspaper in town, and Cowles owns the Cleveland Leader. So he would viciously attack in his paper Hannah for five years …
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And Hannah starts becoming the Republican kingmaker. And he really had that reputation and he deserved it. The Republican nominee in 1880 was James Garfield. How that happened was interesting. Garfield's an Ohio rep. This Ohio political maf…
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of a guy from ohio john sherman it's a name to remember there's john unfortunately sherman didn't do too well at the convention and garfield made such a compelling speech he ends up getting the nomination even though his name wasn't on the …
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the Midwest camp and the Southern camp, although they don't really carry any votes. It matters at the convention. And Hannah basically pays very effective at fundraising, pays for all of Garfield's personal expenses and what's called the fr…
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would meet another guy from Ohio around 1876 or so. That guy's name is William McKinley. They were very friendly. McKinley had a reputation of being an extremely nice guy, but also more honest than most of the politicians. He did not want t…
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And Ohio tried to get him to get the Republican nomination, but it just didn't happen. And, you know, as hard as Hannah tried, as good as he was at glad-handing, he couldn't get it done. So in 1896, he realizes, I'm going to have to, Sherma…
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because the Cubans are rebelling against Spain. Now, Colonel, that's not just the Cubans expelling. This is, we're doing a regime change all around Central and South America already. This is the very, you know, just the early stages of, it'…
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There's a reason we finished with this, because it really kind of puts micing on the cake of a lot of our stories. So what Hannah does next is he gets Sherman named the Secretary of State under McKinley, who wins in 1896. Hannah then steps …
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not that that does any good apparently we can't even solve you know assassinations with all the videos but whatever sorry did i get political yeah or conspiratorial all right so now we got the war hannah would support mckinley's decision ok…
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Which means make them U.S. territories permanently, which they didn't do in a lot of the other Spanish territories. We get to 1899 and McKinley's vice president, a guy by the name of Hobart, dies. McKinley does not name a new VP. He wants t…
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Holgos, it's kind of how to pronounce it. I don't know how to pronounce it. It's like a Polish or Czech name. In 1901, McKinley's dead. As he's dying, he asks the doctors, is Mark, Mark Hanna, is Mark here? And he was. And he held his hand.…
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So Roosevelt immediately reaches out to Hannah to mend bridges between them because they'd had some political differences. And, well, they kind of mended the bridges. So Hannah, here we are in 1901, 1902, and he becomes a big supporter of t…
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Yeah, here's how he would put up maps. They did postage stamps showing, they talked about all the volcanoes they had in Nicaragua. None of which was near the canal. They tried to scare everyone away from the Nicaraguan canal. They mailed th…
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Who? Solomon and Cromwell's representation, John Foster Dulles, who was representing the failed bankrupt French company that started the Panama Canal. Yeah, nothing to see here. And Hannah is the senator leading the charge. So, of course, i…
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Indeed. And another false flag. There were rumors that Hannah was going to challenge Teddy Roosevelt in 1904, but his health failed. And so that wasn't going to happen. And it was a big deal. Interestingly, the treaty to ratify the Canal Zo…
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Teddy Roosevelt's biographer, we've talked about him before, Edmund Morris, has the following quote about Hannah's achievement in industry and politics. He says, he had not done badly in either field. He had made $7 million and a president …