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| | The Imperial Presidency: This Far and No Further |
 | | Perhaps the most illustrative voice of the time was that of Theodore Roosevelt, an unabashed imperialist and white supremacist, who denouced the government's 1893 decision not to annex Hawaii as "a crime against white civilization," and viewed the Pacific islands as a barrier against the "yellow peril" of Asian migration. |
 | | Preoccupied with rebuilding their own devastated country, the Maoists were uninterested in competing on the global stage with the world's two empires, but it had interests in Korea, which had been recently liberated from 35 years of Japanese dominion. |
 | | As the Defense Department history of Vietnam showed, in documents later called the Pentagon Papers, "south Vietnam was essentially the creation of the United States." Diem was a tyrannical and corrupt leader, jailing scores of critics, few of them Communists. |
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