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In 1905 Chief executive Teddy Roosevelt dispatched Secretary of Battle William Howard Taft on the most significant U.S. diplomatic mission in history to Hawaii, Japan, the Philippines, China, and Korea. Roosevelt's attractive twenty-one calendar year old daughter Alice dished up as mistress of the cruise, including senators and congressmen. On this trip, Taft concluded secret agreements in Roosevelt's name.
In 2005, a hundred years later, James Bradley traveled in the wake of Roosevelt's mission and uncovered what had transpired in Honolulu, Tokyo, Manila, Beijing and Seoul.
In 1905, Roosevelt was bully-confident and made secret agreements that he though would secure America's westward force into the Pacific. Instead, he lit the long fuse on the Asian firecrackers that could singe America's hands for a hundred years.
