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Which president's father worked with which elite banker to form the prestigious Metropolitan Club in New York City?
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt's father and John Pierpont Morgan
Teddy Roosevelt's father and Junius Morgan
John F. Kennedy's father and John D. Rockefeller
Calvin Coolidge's father and James Stillman
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Which banker who would later chair a Big Six bank rented one of FDR's New York City townhouses during WWI?
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Winthrop Aldrich from the Chase Bank (now part of JPM Chase)
Thomas Lamont from the Morgan Bank (now part of JPM Chase)
James Stillman from the National City Bank (now part of Citigroup)
George Baker, Sr. from the First National Bank (now part of Citigroup)
Pregunta 3
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Which former Chase Chairman shared a fascination of puddle jumper planes with which president?
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David Rockefeller and John F. Kennedy
John McCloy and Harry Truman
John McCloy and Dwight D. Eisenhower
David Rockefeller and Harry Truman
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Which major banker from which bank worked most closely with FDR behind the scenes in Washington to pass the Glass-Steagall Act?
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Jack Morgan (J.P. Morgan's son) from the Morgan Bank
Thomas Lamont from the Morgan Bank
Winthrop Aldrich from Chase
James Perkins from National City Bank
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The father of which president was selected to be the first head of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) by FDR in 1934 to police the banking industry?
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Lyndon B. Johnson
John F. Kennedy
Gerald Ford
Harry Truman
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Who was the first president to select a major Wall Street bank CEO as his Treasury Secretary?
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George W. Bush
Ronald Reagan
Bill Clinton
George H.W. Bush
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Which president appointed his son-in-law Treasury Secretary, and which banker that would later chair a Big Six bank, was appointed Assistant Treasury Secretary as a result?
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Woodrow Wilson and Russell Leffingwell
Teddy Roosevelt and William Potter
Warren Harding and Albert Wiggin
Calvin Coolidge and Charles Mitchell
Pregunta 8
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Which President's grandfather ran a bank that ultimately became one of the Big Six banks that helped finance his campaign?
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George H.W. Bush
George W. Bush
John F. Kennedy
Ronald Reagan
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Which banker briefly dated the sister of which president?
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Gabriel Hauge and Harry Truman
David Rockefeller and John F. Kennedy
John McCloy and John F. Kennedy
David Rockefeller and Harry Truman
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The Treasury Secretary of which president recently joined a financial firm founded by a banker whose uncle was appointed one of the first Fed governors by Woodrow Wilson in 1914?