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TIL that the first visit of a sitting US President to Mexico didn’t occur until 1909
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Well they didnt have the best history prior…
Before then, you were supposed to visit Mexico *before* you become president, by invading it.
Texas didn’t join the US til 1845. Makes sense there was a delay re: our president going there to hang.
From what I’ve read, train travel was pretty awful back in steam engine days. If I was President in those days, I would go to Washington once, and stay there. When they kicked me out I’d go as far as Baltimore, but no further.
Fun fact. Poinsettias are named after Joel Poinsett, America’s first minister (ambassador) to Mexico.
Traveling long distances back then wasn’t the most comfortable thing to do. I wouldn’t have gone that far either.
The first president to visit a foreign country was in 1906. Teddy Roosevelt visited Panama.
Woodrow Wilson was the first sitting US President to visit Europe.