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United States presidential visits to North Africa

United States presidential visits to North Africa

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Nine presidents of the United States have made presidential visits to North Africa. The first trips by a sitting president to countries in North Africa were those of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and were an offshoot of Allied diplomatic interactions during World War II. Of the five countries in the region, only Libya has not yet been visited by an American president.

The countries of North Africa and their capitals

Table of visits

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Visits by former presidents

  1. Ulysses S. Grant visited Alexandria, Egypt, met with Khedive Isma'il Pasha, sailed up the Nile to tour the Valley of the Kings, and travelled by train down the length of the Suez Canal in 1878, during a post-presidency world tour.[10][11]
  2. Richard Nixon (without official State Department credentials) attended the funeral of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, former Shah of Iran, in Cairo, July 29, 1980.[12]
  3. Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter were among the dignitaries representing the United States at the funeral of Egyptian President Sadat in Cairo, October 10, 1981.[13]

See also

References

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    "Travels of President Franklin D. Roosevelt". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
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    "Travels of President Dwight D. Eisenhower". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
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    "Travels of President Richard M. Nixon". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
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    "Travels of President Jimmy Carter". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
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    "Travels of President George H. W. Bush". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
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    "Travels of President William J. Clinton". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
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    "Travels of President George W. Bush". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
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    "Travels of President Barack Obama". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
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    "Biden to attend COP27 global climate summit". The Hill. October 28, 2022.
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    Hindley, Meredith (May–June 2014). "The Odyssey of Ulysses S. Grant". Humanities. 35 (3).
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    McFeely, William S. (1981). Grant: A Biography. Norton. p. 472. ISBN 0-393-01372-3.
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    Ambrose, Stephen E. (1991). Nixon: Ruin and Recovery 1973–1990. New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 533. ISBN 978-0-671-69188-2.
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    "Officials From Around the World Attending Sadat's Funeral". The New York Times. APAP. October 10, 1981.
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