so he starts to paint william mckinley from a photograph and offers it to mckinley. mckinley declines because the portrait is not super favorable to mckinley as a likeness. the sergeant portrait of theodore roosevelt is much better in terms of flattery. so what is fun and interesting for us, and i think very important as a historian, is to have art broker a bridge through time with our more than 2 million visitors who might not know this history. they might not understand that the united states acquire puerto rico, the philippines and guam and cuba. for a brief time in 1898. and that summer, they also annexed hawaii or hawaii as we know it. another portrait that we have on view is that of queen lili lani, which is the portrait by william cogswell that usually hangs in the illinois palace in honolulu. and we were able to facilitate a very important loan because her voice is so important, and she's a major sight line in the exhibition. and not many people understand that the united states, under mckinley's presidency annexed hawaii through a joint resolution, which is

his presidency of course began suddenly with the assassination of william mckinley. but before we get to that were going to talk a little bit about president roosevelt the campaigner. he has the nickname the bull moose he was a man of boundless energy, quite an intellectual and quite a physical presence in modern politics he be the guy that sucked the oxygen out of the room when he answered it. so bob khanna in your book you talk about a conundrum for roosevelt. he obviously enjoyed train travel and traveled extensively. is also the first president to fly an airplane. and of course that was after his administration. when he traveled for campaign for vice president with mckinley in 1900, he traveled 21000 miles during that campaign on a train and made 673 speeches according to your book. here we have a picture of him making a speech from the rear platform of an observation car. can you talk a little bit about what that speech was like and how it unfolded when the train arrived? >> when the train got to a certain city would come out on the private car like you see in t

telescope teddy said william mckinley had no more back more and then a chocolate declare. truman said eisenhauer doesn't know any more about politics than a pig knows about sunday. and then there is joe biden who for 50 years has pretended he's the bricklayer of washington. >> i'd be delighted to sit down and compare my iq to yours if you want. you may cut me but i will wrap this chain around your head. [ bleep ] >> you are a damn liar. lets do push-ups together. let's run and do whatever you want to do. >> if we were in high school i would take them behind the jim and beat the hell out of him. >> biden is known as the paper tiger of delaware. china, the squad, his own son, but washington's biggest talker lost his tongue when the cartels arrived. a gang of migrants broke into the country, pummeled two nypd officers and while walking out of jail without bail flipped the double bird to the country that let them in. the two birds heard around the world. the symbol of the biden presidency right there. the whole migrant gang gave it to us. [ bleep ] >> the free iphones, hotel r

or president william mckinley. but what we do in this exhibition is that we put those portraits in conversation with portraits of figures from cuba, from puerto rico, from guam, from the philippines, from hawaii. in order to complete that narrative, to complete the history, to present the different perspectives, and really to provide a panoramic outlook into these history. well, we do start with president mckinley. he's right here, 25th, president of the united states. why is he important to this story? well, he was the president of the united states during the war of 1898. and this is a fascinating portrait. it's a portrait that was painted by the preeminent 19th century puerto rican artist francisco estatal, who is really known for his intention to create a vocabulary of puerto. we can visual identity through portraits of puerto rico's intellectuals, through landscapes of the island, through still lifes of tropical fruit. here, however, he's doing something very different. he has created he has painted a portrait

i mean, william mckinley ran on the slogan of a full pail, so that the notion that is government responsibility for prosperity dates the 1930s, i think is erroneous. what i wonder about after seen that film is this we have in 1929 we have the man who could have saved it dead two years and in 1946 we've got the man who might saved it dying. so what i have to ask, is, are we doomed to find out the right answer only to. is it possible that for somebody who's recently died, rummages through the morgue? well, you know what? i think the question is a very different one. and it goes to much of the discussion this point. everybody looks for the right man. you say government those men at that time, quite right. but a system which depends the right man is a bad system. the federal reserve was a bad system because depended on the right man working. it. the idea of demand management, of the kind of thing we're talking about where keynes's death mattered was a bad system. it depended on a particular man working. the notion that the problem that public women brought up, that the problem is not the government

i mean, william mckinley ran on the slogan of a full pail, so that the notion that is government responsibility for prosperity dates the 1930s, i think is erroneous. what i wonder about after seen that film is this we have in 1929 we have the man who could have saved it dead two years and in 1946 we've got the man who might saved it dying. so what i have to ask, is, are we doomed to find out the right answer only to. is it possible that for somebody who's recently died, rummages through the morgue? well, you know what? i think the question is a very different one. and it goes to much of the discussion this point. everybody looks for the right man. you say government those men at that time, quite right. but a system which depends the right man is a bad system. the federal reserve was a bad system because depended on the right man working. it. the idea of demand management, of the kind of thing we're talking about where keynes's death mattered was a bad system. it depended on a particular man working. the notion that the problem that public women brought up, that the problem is not the government

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