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This is William McKinley. I was going to write up information about him with this picture, but my evil twin brother keeps talking on the phone sharing amusing plot ideas with me as an evil plot to distract me, interfering with my ability to look McKinley up on Wikipedia... you know, so I can't get reliable information on him. I'm having a hard time just concentrating on typing, with my evil twin brother on the phone. Without Wikipedia, I can only put highly biased remarks on here.
MCKINLEY IS AN EMPIRIALIST PIG-MONKEY WHO TRIED TO CONQUER THE WORLD!!!
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I was going to write a big thing about McKinley but you did an adequate job. He was actually a fairly decent President, if one dragged into imperialism by the current political trend of his time. My favorite McKinley anecdote is that he admitted when he first heard of the Philippines, he did not know if they were a place or something you bought in a market to eat. Later he said that he asked for God's guidance before agreeing to annex them. I actually believe that (it was 1898, so it was normal behavior - even for a President). If Richard Nixon or Geoge W. Bush I would have questioned it. He loved his delicate wife Ida very dearly - all their children died as babies, and she suffered from epilepsy having fits that he would assist her to overcome. When he was shot he turned to his secretary, George Cortelyou, and said, "Tell my wife gently." She survived him by only six years, dying in 1907.

His successor Theodore Roosevelt never thought highly of him. He felt the portly McKinley was too weak on the war issue before deciding to ask Congress for a declaration of war. Actualy, McKinley served in the Union army from the bloody battle of Antietam on and rose to the rank of Major. In point of fact he saw more real fighting than T. R. did. His hesitancy about going to war over Cuba was due to his seeing what a real war was like - with the pain and death - that up to 1918 T. R. never thought about.