so mckinley the president teddy roosevelt is the vice secretary of war is elihu root. frederick grant is living in washington living in new york. his father has died. he's gone back into the army. he knows teddy roosevelt because they were on the police commission. they helped clean up new york's police department. and fred had out of the army to help his father and then to nurse his father and help him his memoirs when he died, help him through the bankruptcy which was a humiliation, fred goes back into the army. and i'm sure that between l'heureux to secretary of war and teddy roosevelt as bellicose vice president they helped get made a general mckinley made him a general he wrote to mrs. grant and i still have that letter saying, oh, i have a secret. i'm making your son, a general. and then he got to puerto rico for the spanish-american and then to the philippines. so his career around and what does he do is he goes to his friend teddy roosevelt when he becomes president, says, my son is just about to graduate from west point because mckinley, using a deathbed lette

who was elihu root? who was teddy roosevelt, secretary of state at? and that's a nice segway, i realized, because i wrote and it was the most boring book that i used as my resource and i still have it, but i would totally write a school paper on u.s. grant. now. and that's another story which maybe we can talk about. but i just the roosevelt thing, i'm really very startled, sort of i keep reminding myself how deeply involved teddy roosevelt was with family in a number of different ways. so mckinley is the president. teddy roosevelt is the vice president secretary of war is elihu root, frederick grant is living in washington and living in new york. his father has died. he's gone back into the army. he knows teddy roosevelt because. they were on the police commission together. they helped clean up new york's police department and fred had dropped out of the army to help his father. and then nurse his father and help him with his memoirs when he died, helped him through the bankruptcy, which was a humiliation. fred goes back into the army and i'm sure th