The needle-drop soundtrack of pop classics starts and ends with Bob Seger's "Still the Same," which is like starting and ending a war film with "War (What is it Good For?)" The reprise of "Still the Same" accompanies a shot of a treasury press spewing cash right into your face, a literal as well as figurative money shot. Bryce Dessner's score has three modes: 1. "Sinister financial and political shenanigans, watch out!"'; 2. "iPhone ad where a little girl teaches grandma how to download an app"; and 3. "Charlie Brown gets his biopsy results." But it's intrusive and bad on purpose, you see. Because politics is all manipulation, you see. It's all a lie, a story, you see, he typed, as Charlie Brown's corpse rolled towards the furnace. Why are things still the same? Well, this is why. Poor Charlie Brown.
After his inaugural speech, Harding introduced the man who was to run the Treasury Department, a man who would become far more important than the president who hired him. Andrew Mellon had a quiet demeanor, rail-thin bearing, and beautifully manicured hands. His habit of taking long vacations, his age, his manners, and his soft-spoken shyness might have been mistaken for weakness and frailty in someone else. Mellon may have been born rich, but he was not soft. He was a hard man, a banker, an emperor of money, an owner of several companies later included in the Fortune 500. He would help lead the restoration of rule by private financiers.
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