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Dates: during 1921-1921
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...greatest achievement of the Roosevelt administration was undoubtedly the building of the Panama Canal. For over fifty years we had been guaranteed open transit across the Isthmus, but had been forced repeatedly to intervene, often at the request of Columbia, who owned Panama, in order to protect our interests there. After the failure of the French canal project, the United States undertook the task of the construction of the water route across the continent. As long as there was a possibility that the United States would locate operations in Nicaragua, the Colombian government favored the Panama plan. But after...