actually arthur mcarthur, douglas mac arthur's father was the first governor of the philippines whenit became our territory. taft is famous for coining the word "little brown brothers." and the military didn't like the phrase very much. they had worse names to call them. and he's also famous for being photographed, if you actually go online to mcsweenys and moment in the sun, i compiled this, like, 200, 250 images that go with the book, and one of them is taft on a caribou where the caribou look like a pone n underneath william taft. [laughter] the japanese really haven't showed up yet. there's a slight mention of trying to send some arms to the filipinos to fight against the spanish, but the boat sank, so nothing came of that. and, yeah, there's a couple spanish characters and cuban characters in the book because the spanish had been there for 300 years. and their influence on the filipino revolutionaries and the filipino republic was enormous. the education of philippine illustrators, basically, came through the jesuits and augustinians, francis cans and dominicans. so most of the