Attack on Exxon Mobil’s successful ex-CEO is nonsensical coming from N.Y. Times’ pundit Posted on April 26, 2006 by Chris McGregor WASHINGTON – In 1930, as the Great Depression set in, reporters asked Babe Ruth how he could justify making more money than the President of the United States – $80,000 a year compared to Herbert Hoover's $75,000. Click here to view entire article.