Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Hay ya yi aiki kusan shekaru bakwai a matsayin Sakataren Harkokin Waje, a karkashin Shugaba McKinley, kuma bayan kisan McKinley
, a karkashin Theodore Roosevelt. Hay ne ke da alhakin sasanta manufofin bude kofa, wanda ya bude kasar Sin don kasuwanci tare da dukkan kasashe a kan daidaito, tare da manyan kasashen duniya. Ta hanyar tattauna yarjejeniyar Hay <unk> Pauncefote tare da Burtaniya, yarjejeniyar Hay <unk> Herrán (wanda ba a amince da shi ba) tare da Colombia, kuma a ƙarshe yarjejeniyar Hay <unk> Bunau-Varilla tare da sabuwar jamhuriyar Panama mai zaman kanta, Hay kuma ya share hanya don gina Canal na Panama.