Trivia: Theodore Roosevelt was the first President to do what while in office?
Leave the country
Get married
Host a radio broadcast
Fly in a plane
The correct answer is Leave the country
So why is this answer correct? : Teddy Roosevelt became the first U.S. President to leave the country during his term in office when he took a 1906 voyage to Panama to visit the progression of the Panama Canal. Teddy had nothing on our most traveled President, however. During his two terms in office, President Bill Clinton spent 233 days abroad, visiting 134 destinations on 55 different trips.