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On Nov. 6, 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt started a 17-day trip to Panama and Puerto Rico, marking the first official diplomatic tour outside of the continental United States by a president. Roosevelt’s demands for improvements and health care and better working conditions for workers on the Panama Canal helped drive the project forward when it appeared it was headed toward failure. The president’s trip to the construction site in 1906 helped to boost worker morale.
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