what if i've gotten myself for the senior year and over my, my professor for american history, mr. len james? he said, so how would you like to do a term paper in lieu of the final exam? i said, yeah, sure. and he said, why don't you do a paper on the spanish american war? and i didn't, i came to our door in the library to bottles of the library to read the congressional record. and there's nothing like reading these guys talk on filtered on the one side. it was referring to us for practically, as monkeys, in like the brown races and this and that are going away. and then you had guys like a william jennings bryan. and the anti imperialist, saying this be trace all over the united states is about, well, you know, we flight the colonies. referral for independence. what are we? we're going to become a buyer now. the for over 400 years, puerto rico suffered as a spanish colon but in 1897, spain granted the island, a degree of autonomy. many hopes that this was a step towards independence, but it turned out to be a dead. just months afterwards, though he goes to 1st election to the united states