rooseve roosevelt's charge made their famous charge up the slopes of san juan hill. 30 soldier of thisar, won the nation's highest tribute. the first to win army medals of honor on foreign soil, 81 navy and marine corps fighting men were also awarded the medal. this first conflict by american ground forces outside our nation's borders was brief, but it was a hint of things to come. america's growth, the prospering of the adventurous idealism on which it was founded, these were making the united states a world power. a position of world leadership unsought but unavoidable was even then being thrust upon the nation. this time it was no isolated conflict. this time the challenge to freedom and the involvement of free men in it were at such a scale that a name never used before in man's history was created to drive it -- the world war. from our perspective in history, the first world war. but for the doughboy in hundreds of thousands, it was world war. on a personal level, it was perhaps very little different from any war any time. >> where did that sergeant guy? we're due move out any --

but it soon passed room to room until it finally wound up gracing president theodore rooseve roosevelt's new office. every time the door opened it tinkled, distracting him greatly. he ordered it to be sent to the capitol. and he was supposed to have said, put it in the vice president's office and it will keep it awake. and there it remained until my husband became vice president in 1961. during mrs. kennedy's renovation, this room has seen many tree signings. in our time i've witnessed two treaties here involving the geographic extremes of our country. the first was the capital treaty which made the summer home of franklin eleanor roosevelt an international park between canada and the united states. behind this table, prime minister pearson of canada and my husband was seated flampged by the delegations, i remember james roosevelt and ms. grace tully, the president's personal secretary, it was a thrilling look back into the past. and then from the northern most part of the country to the southern most, in october of '67 a treaty was signed here. returning to mexico a small strip of land