 On Sunday afternoon and into the evening , Morgan , Perkins , Baker and Stillman , along with U.S. Steel 's Gary and Henry Clay Frick , worked at the library to finalize the deal for U.S. Steel to buy TC & I and by Sunday night had a plan for acquisition . But one obstacle remained : the anti @-@ trust crusading President Theodore Roosevelt , who had made breaking up monopolies a focus of his presidency . 
