Panama Canal: The Endless Debate of the Carter-Torrijos Treaties
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  • Home
  • Background
  • Debate and Diplomacy
    • The Great Debate
    • Treaty and the Public
    • Treaty and the Senators
    • Carter the Chief Diplomat
    • Victory at Last
    • Senator List
  • Consequences, Successes and Failures
    • Short Term
    • Long Term
    • Unintended Consequences
  • Conclusion
  • Political Cartoons
  • Process Paper
  • Bibliography

Consequences, Successes and Failures

Consequences as summarized by Adam Clymer:

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"Thirty years later, with the canal running smoothly under Panama’s control, it is hard to recapture the emotions that made it such a potent issue in the ’70s. The debate
left the Panama Canal undamaged, even thriving, but it scarred American politics."
Source: Adam Clymer, Washington Correspondent, New York Times, March 15th, 2008


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Short Term
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Long Term
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Unintended

"...defining moment in U.S. diplomacy and domestic politics"
                                                                                                                          Source: Richard Norton Smith, presidential historian

"The Panama Canal debate transformed American politics. I was there, saw it happen"

                                                                                                                          Source: David A. Keene, Chairman, American Conservative Union


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