<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt" id="mw1w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Theodore Roosevelt">Theodore Roosevelt</a> is the first sitting President of the United States to make an <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_international_trips_made_by_the_President_of_the_United_States#Theodore_Roosevelt" id="mw2A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="List of international trips made by the President of the United States">official trip outside the country</a>, doing so to inspect progress on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Canal" id="mw2Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Panama Canal">Panama Canal</a>.