President Theodore Roosevelt provided strategic military ... of the young republic—the territory that would become the Panama Canal Zone. Read More: Donald Trump Still Wants to Take Control ...
The popular telling of the canal’s origin is a story of America’s technical prowess, of man’s triumph over nature and of the cunning of figures like Theodore Roosevelt, who supported Panama ...
The construction of the Panama Canal began in 1904 under President Theodore Roosevelt. The waterway was built to provide a speedy way to ship goods between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
President Trump wants Panama to return its namesake canal to the U.S. Panama’s ... In the age of gunboat diplomacy with former Rough Rider Theodore Roosevelt as president, the U.S. engineered ...
Work on the Panama Canal could now begin ... in his reverential invocations of presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. Ted Snider is a columnist on U.S. foreign policy and history ...