 in back-channel diplomacy with both the Russians and the Japanese. He had a direct line with the Japanese, and he had sent, realizing what the Russians were and how they operated, he had his best friend, a guy from Harvard who was a diplomat, one of the best diplomats the United States had, sent to Moscow, to St. Petersburg, to be the one that talked to the Tsar, and he went and talked to the Tsar at a critical stage and got the Tsar to agree to...