[Publius6961]

Per the treaty signed with Panama in 1904(?), no part of the nation of Panama was ever a territory of the U.S.A. We managed the Canal Zone for a goodly while but it was never a U.S. territory.

Why, then, was all the time and trouble for Carter to create the Panama Canal Treaty of 1977 even necessary?

[SatinDoll]

President Carter was, well...rather peculiar in his moral beliefs. He was not particularly proud of the United States.