Theodore Roosevelt (Teddy Roosevelt) was the 26th U.S. President, known for conservation, trust-busting, and a dynamic career ...

Theodore Roosevelt sitting in a crane at the Panama Canal. | Historical/GettyImages. In 1869, President Ulysses S. Grant had established the Inter-Oceanic Canal Commission to study possible routes ...

MAKING DIRT FLY ON PANAMA CANAL; Reynolds Commission Reports to the President the Remarkable Progress Being Made. ROOSEVELT MUCH PLEASED Writes a Letter of Praise -- 33,000 Men Now Removing ...

To ensure the canal could be built, then-President Theodore Roosevelt supported Panamanian independence, and in 1903, the U.S. and Panama signed a treaty that established permanent U.S. rights to ...

PANAMA CITY, Panama—When President Theodore Roosevelt formulated plans for the Panama Canal, there was no Panama.The country was still part of the Republic of Colombia despite bouts of on-again ...

President-elect Trump criticized Jimmy Carter's diplomacy that led to the Panamanians regaining control of the PCZ nearly 100 years after Teddy Roosevelt helped the U.S. take it over.

Theodore Roosevelt was a man who never stopped fighting. ... "Theodore Roosevelt will go up there, and he'll go up there because of the Panama Canal." Today, people look at it and say, ...

To counter such worries, President Roosevelt exerted tremendous effort to make the canal project an idealistic symbol of U.S. global power. In a flamboyant trip to Panama in 1906, the first time a ...