Theodore Roosevelt selected William Howard Taft to be his successor and gave him vital support during the presidential campaign of 1908. Taft was a conservative of upper-middle-class background with a long career on the bench, and he aspired to a judicial appointment rather than a political career. Roosevelt nonetheless believed that Taft, a close personal friend, was the best man to continue ... Interior Richard A. Ballinger and the head of the Forestry Service in the Department of Agriculture, Gifford Pinchot. An appointee and personal friend of Theodore Roosevelt, Pinchot was a passionate ...

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... rights in China. The United States had long been interested in a Central American canal to link its east and west coasts, expand trade and for military interest. In 1902 President Theodore Roosevelt decided on Panama over Nicaragua and negotiated a treaty with Columbia giving the United States permission for the canal project. The Panamanians had authorized Philippe Bunau-Varilla an official of the ... ...

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