Theodore Roosevelt

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The paper discusses the real effect of the assassination of President McKinley. The paper examines how Theodore Roosevelt entered the White House after three decades during which Congress had consistently had the upper hand over the President. The paper further examines his many accomplishments, of which the Panama Canal is considered very important; and although Congress wasn't always on his side when it came to building the canal, Roosevelt used his charm, his brains, and his presidential power to push it through.

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"On matters of foreign policy, Roosevelt was both aggressively expansionistic and cautiously temperate, depending on the situation. He was given to occasional bombast; according to an article in Naval History by James R. Homes, Roosevelt once told a Naval War College audience that "No triumph of peace is quite so great as the supreme triumphs of war." Roosevelt's geopolitical views "aligned to a great extent" with Read Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan, Homes explains, and Mahan believed that in order to "wrest away" America's "rightful share of foreign commerce," the U.S. would need "a battle fleet able to 'fight, with reasonable chances of success, the largest force likely to be brought against it'.""

Sample of Sources Used:

• Benedetto, Richard. 2006. No rest for the president. USA Today, 3 August 2006.
• Cavendish, Richard. 2001. Assassination of President McKinley. History Today 51 (September).
• Dalton, Kathleen. 2006. The Self-Made Man: He was a sickly child. But through sheer will, Muscular effort - and a lot of time in the great outdoors - he became a powerful, passionate Adult. Time, 3 July, 2006, 168.
• Holmes, James R. 2006. Roosevelt's Pursuit of a Temperate Caribbean Policy. Naval History 20 (August): 48-53.
• Lacayo, Richard. 2006. The 20th Century Express: At home and abroad, Theodore Roosevelt was The Locomotive President, the man who drew his flourishing nation into the future. Time, 3 July, 168.

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