so he starts to paint william mckinley from a photograph and offers it to mckinley. mckinley declines because the portrait is not super favorable to mckinley as a likeness. the sergeant portrait of theodore roosevelt is much better in terms of flattery. so what is fun and interesting for us, and i think very important as a historian, is to have art broker a bridge through time with our more than 2 million visitors who might not know this history. they might not understand that the united states acquire puerto rico, the philippines and guam and cuba. for a brief time in 1898. and that summer, they also annexed hawaii or hawaii as we know it. another portrait that we have on view is that of queen lili lani, which is the portrait by william cogswell that usually hangs in the illinois palace in honolulu. and we were able to facilitate a very important loan because her voice is so important, and she's a major sight line in the exhibition. and not many people understand that the united states, under mckinley's presidency annexed hawaii through a joint resolution, which is

or president william mckinley. but what we do in this exhibition is that we put those portraits in conversation with portraits of figures from cuba, from puerto rico, from guam, from the philippines, from hawaii. in order to complete that narrative, to complete the history, to present the different perspectives, and really to provide a panoramic outlook into these history. well, we do start with president mckinley. he's right here, 25th, president of the united states. why is he important to this story? well, he was the president of the united states during the war of 1898. and this is a fascinating portrait. it's a portrait that was painted by the preeminent 19th century puerto rican artist francisco estatal, who is really known for his intention to create a vocabulary of puerto. we can visual identity through portraits of puerto rico's intellectuals, through landscapes of the island, through still lifes of tropical fruit. here, however, he's doing something very different. he has created he has painted a portrait

i mean, william mckinley ran on the slogan of a full pail, so that the notion that is government responsibility prosperity dates the 1930s, i think is erroneous. what i wonder about after seen that film is this we have in 1929 we have the man who could have saved it dead two years and in 1946 we've got the man who might saved it dying. so what i have to ask, is, are we doomed to find out the right answer only to. is it possible that for somebody who's recently died, rummages through the morgue? well, you know what? i think the question is a very different one. and it goes to much of the discussion this point. everybody looks for the right man. you say government those men at that time, quite right. but a system which depends the right man is a bad system. the federal reserve was a bad system because depended on the right man working. it. the idea of demand management, of the kind of thing we're talking about where keynes's death mattered was a bad system. it depended on a particular man working. the notion that the problem that public women brought up, that the problem is not the government int

i mean, william mckinley ran on the slogan of a full pail, so that the notion that is government responsibilityor prosperity dates the 1930s, i think is erroneous. what i wonder about after seen that film is this we have in 1929 we have the man who could have saved it dead two years and in 1946 we've got the man who might saved it dying. so what i have to ask, is, are we doomed to find out the right answer only to. is it possible that for somebody who's recently died, rummages through the morgue? well, you know what? i think the question is a very different one. and it goes to much of the discussion this point. everybody looks for the right man. you say government those men at that time, quite right. but a system which depends the right man is a bad system. the federal reserve was a bad system because depended on the right man working. it. the idea of demand management, of the kind of thing we're talking about where keynes's death mattered was a bad system. it depended on a particular man working. the notion that the problem that public women brought up, that the problem is not the government i

he served under the command of two future united states, rutherford b hayes, william mckinley is, also known as being a he was a druggist and part of the firm of sanford, albert and chamberlain's. all right. maybe i got that backwards how the firm went. but sanford, alpers and chamberlain's drug firm the gentlemen to his right. third from the left is homer charles, who also a union officer. and a in the revenue service, which dow worked in the revenue service friend mason all. these connections through the masonry, through the union army, through their professional occupation in class. these gentlemen lower left that is luther stephen trowbridge, a brigadier general in the united states army, the highest ranking officer among any of the baseball. baseball's. but there's a common theme. these are officers, a squire, a sergeant munson was a sergeant chamberlain was a first lieutenant. i'll skip over to the gentleman on the third from the left. that is ac camp who also served in the union army, owned greystone mansion, the home of w w 80 today, was a member in the grant administration. an

teddy roosevelt is catapulted into the presidency after the assassination of william mckinley. and all of a sudden teddy roosevelt is the most celebrated, famous person in the country. and and franklin roosevelt, who still was that kid who'd been bullied at groton, he hadn't really found a way to fit in. all of a sudden, he has the last name of the president of the united states. and i think he sees in teddy roosevelt sort of a model of what he can become. and in the years that followed that, he really goes about very deliberately trying to emulate teddy's path to the presidency. he's he runs for the state legislature in new york. woodrow wilson appoints him as the assistant secretary of the navy, which is the job that teddy roosevelt had when he really became a national figure. and franklin does a really good sort of teddy roosevelt's impersonation. he he quickly discovers that journalists are kind of lazy and they like you if you give them an easy story and an easy story for them was here's another roosevelt in the navy department. so he used the word bully a lot, and he sort