Exactly as with the building of the Isthmian Canal we shall make our Atlantic and our Pacific coasts in effect continuous, so the possession and peopling of the Alaskan seacoast puts us in a position of dominance as regards the Pacific which no other nations share or can share.
Roosevelt draws parallels between the construction of the Panama Canal and the strategic significance of Alaska.
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