A Nation Without Borders: The United States and Its World in an Age of Civil Wars, 1830-1910 (The Penguin History of the United States)

by Steven Hahn

McKinley now claimed that Hawai’i was necessary to the United States as a military base. “We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California,” he declared. “It is manifest destiny.” Congress yielded in a close vote.