During his second term, Roosevelt worked on bringing a peace settlement to the Russo-Japanese War. Delegates from both nations were invited to New Hampshire to facilitate this. Roosevelt also acquired the right for the U.S. to build a canal in Panama and visited the country himself in November 1906, the first time a president in office had ever visited a foreign nation. Oscar Straus, secretary of commerce and labor in Roosevelt's cabinet during this term, is shown in one of the following films, taken after 1909. The Sculptor's Nightmare is a satire of a political club trying to decide who will follow Roosevelt as president.