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Tariff news continues to dominate the headlines after President Trump unveiled the largest set of tariff increases seen in a century or more. There have been plenty of references to the Smoot-Hawley ...

including the Panama Canal, which has foolishly been given to the country of Panama.” For a Spaniard, McKinley’s name evokes the memory of a war. In 1898, when he was president, the U.S ...

Since President William McKinley’s once-upon-a-time mediocrity ... rival European empires out of South America, wrested the Panama Canal Zone from Colombia, and won the Nobel Peace Prize for ...

They deem a Panama canal too expensive and propose a canal ... Roosevelt takes the oath of office after President William McKinley is assassinated. Roosevelt immediately declares the need ...

He began negotiations for the Panama Canal, and traveled to the 1901 Pan ... Eight days later, President William McKinley died. He was 58. The public response was the equivalent of the Kennedy ...

The longtime Washington journalist turned author of several books on US history, including one about the man who seems to be ...

The 50-mile Panama Canal was a multi-national ... Theodore Roosevelt, who succeeded William McKinley after he was assassinated in 1901, spoke of the need to build the canal in a speech to Congress.