[laughter] john hay was like a son to abraham lincoln. lincoln had not been very close with his eldest son, robert, for a number of reasons. they were just a part often. hay was treated like a son and was actually stricken when lincoln died. 35 years later when theodore roosevelt came in the office, very suddenly, john hay became like a father to theodore roosevelt. hay had known roosevelt when he was a little boy, had been a friend of his father in new york. roosevelt was exactly 20 years younger than hay. roosevelt's father had died when he was in his 20s in college. and so they did have a lot of differences. strenuous, teddy and for john hay stroll along the avenue in his top hat was pretty good exercise. and yet they had a terrific rapport. jon agan essentially -- john hay essential was a guy who walked and talked softly while theodore roosevelt, granted the big stick. they got in the habit of, rosa will go off to church on sunday morning when he happened to be in washington. he would come by john hay's house which was on the side of w

john hay, then ambassador to st. james, our splendid little war, and that conflict sent america into possession of the philippines and other parts of the south pacific and into a land war with spain and cuba. when the smoke cleared, the united states could at last call itself an international power and world power, even if the latter would not be tested until the great war. president william mckinley, in leading the nation into war, had taken the power of the president is si to the high and independent level it had not known since george washington held the office. chief executive, now faded into the past, mckinley changed america, and had he lived, would have crowned the imperial season completely. but he didn't finish his second term. he was assassinated. in the two years before his assassination in 1901, he had supported more or less a redesign of washington by the army corps of engineers that included major improvements, new buildings and a european sort of appearance. architecturally, the remake was to be charac

this is the kind of guy we are dealing with, john hay, lincoln's personal secretary said it was $0.25 of yellow covered romance. charles sumner, the powerful and pompous share of the senate foreign relations committee, one journalist said he works his adjectives so hard that if they ever got him alone they would murder him. lord palmer, the british prime minister, victor hugo said he belonged the little to history but much more to fiction. eugene, the strong-willed, strongly anti-american french empress. the stories told whether it is true or not, indicative of her character she was stabbed herself in the arm with a dagger to prove how tough she was. and of course you had lincoln himself and for all that has been written there has been very little about lincoln's foreign policy and there hasn't been a holistic human account of his role on foreign affairs in nearly 70 years and that is before the lincoln papers were made public in 1947. there is a lot of water under the bridge since then. if you reasons for that. the obvious reason we think of the civil war as a domestic conflict and i

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john terrett has the story. >> in hays ruling federal judge william pauley says the n.s.a.'s mass collection of phone records represents the counter-punch to eliminate al qaeda's terror network. the 9/11 attacks might have been prevented if the phone data collection system had existed then, to help investigators connect the dots before the attacks occurred. the government learnt from its mistakes and has adapted. he said the data collection program was part of the adjustment, and he dismissed the lawsuit brought by the american civil liberties union after former n.s.a. contractor edward snowden released information. the government's interpretation of its authority under the patriot act was so proceed that it could justify the mass clebz of health and library records of innocent americans without their knowledge. the acl will appeal the ruling saying it misinterprets the statutes, understates and missupplies to weed away constitutional corrections. the department of justice was pleased with judge william pauley's decision. earlier judge leon ruled the opposite way in a suit b

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in austin, texas, a discussion with john taliaferro author of "all the great prizes: the life of john hay, from lincoln to roosevelt," and h. w. brands, author of "the man who saved the union: ulysses s. grant in war and peace." this is about 45 minutes. >> thanks to all of you for coming out this afternoon. we have with us to historians who have written two new books about a couple major 19th century figures in american history and politics. to my immediate left, h. w. brands has written this book about ulysses s. grant called "the man who saved the union: ulysses s. grant in war and peace." and to my father left we have john taliaferro -- to my farther left we have john taliaferro and his book is called content about the statesman john hay. so