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====White Fleet, 1907====
====White Fleet, 1907====
[[File:NAVY1908.jpg|thumb|550px|U.S. Navy recruting poster, 1908]]
President [[Theodore Roosevelt]], a strong navy man, proudly sent his powerful new "great white fleet" of sixteen new battleships around the world in 1907-09, demonstrating the maturity of American naval engineering as well as the substance for the "big stick" foreign policy.
President [[Theodore Roosevelt]], a strong navy man, proudly sent his powerful new "great white fleet" of sixteen new battleships around the world in 1907-09, demonstrating the maturity of American naval engineering as well as the substance for the "big stick" foreign policy.