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by fywacro 4723 days ago
"For street cleaning, he first reached out to Teddy Roosevelt, who basically said, ‘What, are you nuts? Nobody should do that. That’s an impossible job. I’m not going to do that.’ So Roosevelt took over the police department, which was also in dire need of reform."

Back in college, a history-buff friend told me this story, but I thought she was telling me a joke. Who'da thunk it?