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fascinating and important, really turning point in american history. before then, you had a united states that really would have been recognized by the founding fathers. after this date, by the turn of the century, it's the america that we would know today. and there's just a tremendous zeitgeist and enthusiasm and patriotism in this period. i think it all makes it very romantic. i mean, you just look right the way through american society, and you see it in industry. you know, of course, we think of the tycoons and the trusts. but there was just a proliferation of new products. i me...

turn because be the war with russia would have continued, japan -- a far smaller power than russia -- eventually would have been ground down. so the japanese leaders wanted to blame the outcome on the americans, but still have the americans negotiate an end. so it's -- one has to be careful in describing the degree to which the japanese were actually insulted by all this and how much this was done for domestic political consumption. anyway, roosevelt definitely did not want to antagonize the japanese because as roosevelt discovered, roosevelt was one of the strong advocates of annexa...

and americans never, not from 1899, not until 1846, when the philippines got their independence, never sufficiently garrisoned the philippines against potential attack by whom? well, japan was the expressions country in that part of the world. so roosevelt by 1905 was describing the philippines as his term was our heel of achilles. it is all that gives us concern in our relations with japan. because this was an american economy but it was indefensible. if the japanese made a concerted attack on the philippines which is why roosevelt had to deal very gently with the japanese. i'm not ...