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Personal Friend: All this changed when an assassin's bullet ended McKinley's life on Sept. 14, 1901. The new president, Theodore Roosevelt, was an old friend of Hay's and asked him to continue as secretary of state. Hay remained in the State Department, serving under Roosevelt almost four years. Roosevelt was 43, and Hay was now 63. Despite the gulf in age the two men had amiable personal relations, but the exuberant Roosevelt never allowed Hay the freedom to conduct foreign policy as he had with McKinley.
In the presidential race of 1800 be campaigned for Thomas Jefferson, a personal friend, and he served as U. S. postmaster general under Jefferson and James Madison from 1801 :o 1814. Thereafter he lived in Canandaigua, SJ. Y., where he lent enthusiastic support to De Witt Clinton and the Erie Canal project. To :urther the canal, he also served in the New fork Senate (1820-1821). He died at Canan-iaigua on Dec. 31, 1822.
One more word about travel agents, for I think their key role, in foreign travel especially, is of incalculable importance. Here is the word for today"—pick one and stick to him unless and until he lets you down by sloppy or indifferent service. Make him your personal friend. Put him on his mettle by letting him see that you, though no "mouse" to be trapped, depend upon him and trust him. The giant agencies like American Express and Cook have one obvious advantage, their world-wide
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