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Catherine Forslund

Catherine Forslund is associate professor of history at Rockford College in Illinios. Her first book was Anna Chennault: Informal Diplomacy and Asian Relations. She is currently working on Edith Kermit Roosevelt: Victorian Modern First Lady.

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    "Off for the Ditch"

    Prior to President and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt’s visit to Panama in 1906, no American president had set foot outside the country during his tenure in office, not even crossing a bridge to Canada or Mexico. In an August 1906 letter to Andrew Carnegie, President Roosevelt bemoaned the “ironclad custom which forbids a President ever [going] abroad” that kept him from engaging in dir