::Yes. Rjensen. Both Fish and Grant deserve credit for the foreign policy. Your above statement then implies that Fish was successfull and that Fish was appointed by President Grant. Why should his foriegn policy be mixed? Particulary the detante between the South American countries that lasted about 5 years. Simpson-Kelsey (2005) stated concerning Grant: "His handling of foreign policy was ambitious if not completely realized....First and foremost he sought to protect the rights of blacks in  the South...His ambition to annex Santo Domingo as a haven for blacks who faced relentlessly harsh treatment from southerners was thwarted by Charles Sumner. Grant kept the United States out of a European war and helped the Paris victims of the Franco Prussian war. .    
 :Alanscottwalker. The American Heritage website appears to have been un renewed.