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While looking up interesting Caribbean history dates for Nov. 9, I discovered this:

On this day in 1906, Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States, became the first chief executive to travel abroad while in office. Accompanied by his wife, Roosevelt embarked for Panama from the Chesapeake Bay aboard the U.S.S. Louisiana. Before his four-day visit to the newly established Central American nation, Roosevelt stopped off in Puerto Rico. He returned to the continental United States on Nov. 26. Roosevelt’s visit came three years after the United States gave military sup

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