[Lent]

The reason I pinged you is I thought you could shed some light on the Open Door Notes and Open Door Policy of the latter 19th century and how you viewed that foreign policy position as an instrument (successful or otherwise) of U.S. economic expansionism. AG appears to have some confusion about the time and issue on this point as well.

[Torie]

Sorry, I can't help you much. The only Open Door I know about is with China, and that is memory from high school. I don't know anything about the Open Door notes. My guess is that neither was that important. Teddy made a modest splash with his "imperialism," but the US really didn't become critical on the world stage until WW I. Pax Britania did most of the heavy lifting prior thereto. The immigration bit confuses me. What were you or he asserting there?