00:00Do you consider the Panama Canal your greatest achievement?
00:06Well, well.
00:09Right then, yes.
00:13The canal stands as one of my proudest battles, no question.
00:16But greatness is a strange thing.
00:19It isn't always the biggest or boldest job that matters most.
00:23The Panama Canal showed what America could achieve
00:25if we held steady and acted fast when the world dragged its feet.
00:30That said, I'd measure my greatest work by the lives improved.
00:34The park set aside, the food and drugs made safe,
00:38the square deal given to all, not just to a few.
00:41Still, when I stood in the mud watching those steam shovels,
00:45knowing ships would pass through, changing the world's map forever,
00:48I felt I'd left a mark that would last.
00:52Okay. You did. Thank you.
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