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fomented Panamanian revolution against Columbia which would not sell U.S. the rights to land surveyed for canal which had been barely begun then abandoned by France. It was brain child of the Frenchman who built the Suez Canal. Roosevelt immediately recognized new nation of Panama and made 100 year treaty to build and operate the canal. He then pushed and supported project to it's completion. He thought it his most significant contribution to America and to history.

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