who is andrew carnegie and what did he do?
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 During the second half of Britain 's " imperial century " between 1815 and 1914 , English @-@ born South African businessman , mining magnate and politician Cecil Rhodes advocated the British Empire reannexing the United States of America and reforming itself into an " Imperial Federation " to bring about a hyperpower and lasting world peace . In his first will , written in 1877 at the age of 23 , he expressed his wish to fund a secret society ( known as the Society of the Elect ) that would advance this goal : 

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 The first recorded use of the phrase occurs in a private letter from Roosevelt ( then governor of New York ) to Henry L. Sprague , dated January 26 , 1900 . Roosevelt wrote , in a bout of happiness after forcing New York 's Republican committee to pull support away from a corrupt financial adviser : 

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 Determined both to hold the party together and to recruit the ablest men for his cabinet , Lincoln then persuaded each of his former rivals to join his cabinet . Seward assumed the post of Secretary of State , Chase that of Secretary of the Treasury , and Bates that of United States Attorney General . The South secedes following Lincoln 's election , and the country falls into the American Civil War . Goodwin describes in detail some cabinet decisions , such as the debate over provisioning Fort Sumter in South Carolina , the first state that had seceded ( in December 1860 ) , and the issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation , which freed the slaves of secession states . She also traces the home life of the book 's main figures , including the marriage of Chase 's daughter and close companion Kate , First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln 's role in Washington , D.C. society , and the death of Lincoln 's son Willie . 

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 A series of voiceovers called STRIKE Files outline the origins of STRIKE . One such file has General Earle detailing the organization 's mandate to US President Bill Clinton after his inauguration in January 1993 . In the tape , Clinton is unaware that STRIKE prevented a civil war in Mexico in 1982 which could have turned the country into a secret Warsaw Pact member @-@ state . 

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 In modern times , the rule of Ivan Alexander inspired Bulgarian national writer Ivan Vazov to write the novelette Ivan @-@ Aleksandǎr and the drama Kǎm propast ( Towards an Abyss ) , in both of which the tsar is the main character . 
