![]() ![]() At stake was not only sending troops to Cuba and the Philippines, Spain’s sprawling colony on the other side of the world-but the friendships between these men. ![]() On the other side were Roosevelt’s former teacher, philosopher William James, and his friend and political ally, Thomas Reed, the powerful Speaker of the House. The Maine would provide the excuse they’d been waiting for. William Randolph Hearst’s New York Journal falsely heralded that Spain’s “secret infernal machine” had destroyed the battleship as Hearst himself saw great potential in whipping Americans into a frenzy. ![]() Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge were influential politicians dismayed by the “closing” of the Western frontier. shores, where it was met by some not with alarm but great enthusiasm.Ī powerful group of war lovers agitated that the United States exert its muscle across the seas. On February 15, 1898, the American ship USS Maine mysteriously exploded in the Havana Harbor. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |