"Dealing with a government [Tsarist Russia] with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult and delicate matter."
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Biographers from the United StatesUnited States Secretaries of StateJournalists from IndianaUnited States Ambassadors to Great Britain and the United KingdomUnited States Assistant Secretaries of State
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From a 1903 letter to President Roosevelt, John Hay Papers, Library of Congress.
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John Hay
John Milton Hay (October 8, 1838 – July 1, 1905) was an American statesman, diplomat, author, journalist, and private secretary and assistant to Abraham Lincoln. He served as United States Secretary of State from 1898 to 1905 under presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt.
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