Five Days Early, or Nearly a Century

September 6, 2008 in The Way It Were
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As I finished reading The Path Between the Seas, a history of the Panama Canal by celebrity historian David McCullough, I came across this Teddy Roosevelt quote toward the end.
Roosevelt, now years out of office, vented his frustration that then-President Wilson had offered Colombia more than $20 million in restitution for America’s appropriation of the [...]