Date:   1/20/2012 7:10:32 PM ( 12 y ago)
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Yeah, I also thought that Darryl misspoke in referring to Teddy Roosevelt, instead of Woodrow Wilson. And, technically the first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was appointed in 1949, preceding the establishment of this position, the Joint Army and Navy Board was established in 1903 by President Theodore Roosevelt. So, it is a bit unclear as to what Darryl was alluding to.

Historically, it was Woodrow Wilson that allowed the establishment of the Federal Reserve, to which he later had reservations on the matter at the time of his death.

I did find the following, although it does need some verification:

Teddy Roosevelt appointed Nelson Aldrich to head the National Monetary Committee which later spearheaded the move to create the Federal Reserve Act.

http://www.kipnotes.com/Theodore%20Roosevelt.htm
May 30, 1908 - Congress passed Aldrich-Vreeland Currency Act (sponsored by financier and conservative legislator, Senator Nelson Aldrich, R-RI). Created National Monetary Commission to diagnose and prescribe a remedy for the all-too-frequent bank panics (1907). The Commission found that the nation's banks were so "unrelated and independent of each other that the majority of them had simultaneously engaged in a life and death contest with each other." The report triggered the passage of the Federal Reserve Act in 1913 on December 23, 1913.

May 30, 1908 - Theodore Roosevelt named Senator Nelson Aldrich (R-RI) chair of the National Monetary Commission; effectively granted the arch-conservative the right to monitor and mold the nation's finances.

The Darryl Freck story is a compelling one, it leaves some gaps that need to be filled in with better details.
 

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