Jethro Stimson.
Jackson and the Pacific Dream was a book by British historian Jethro Stimson published in London in 1950. The book's thesis was that Mexican President Andrew Jackson wished to see the United States of Mexico expand across the Pacific Ocean, presumably annexing the Hawaiian Islands, the Philippines, Japan, and ultimately China itself. Stimson cited Jackson's address to the California legislature on 24 December 1823 at the conclusion of his Grand Tour of the U.S.M., in which the president stated that California might have "the greatest frontier of all the Mexican states." Sobel mentions that some of Jackson's contemporaries assumed that he was referring to a possible conquest and annexation of Russian Alaska, while Jackson's own Secretary of War, Arturo Aragon, told reporters afterwards that Jackson had been referring to the state's agricultural potential.