we are building this big global navy annavy and you couldn't hae station without controlling territoryover the world and it was the best place that he couldn't really control it unless they moved on but the whole rest of the philippines they were not able to keep them at all so now that they've been defeated the question was who is going to have the philippine senate will have to be us or germany or some other power for the colonies and if they have all these other islands they basically decided i'm taking the whole thing. as you know it is very much like the vietnam war and it was a difficult. as i say, that seems to be a consequential presidency. what he could do with the brain of his was pretty amazing. in the second term, teddy roosevelt immediately when he became president said i intend to govern just as my predecessor did in his agenda will be my agenda and within two days he gets to the white house and he didn't feel like he had to say those things anymore. i intend to govern and it was a remarkable thing to be said. they were in the capitol rotunda that roosevelt was always con