United States presidential visits to Southeast Asia

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There have been twenty-one United States presidential visits to Southeast Asia by ten U.S. presidents. Dwight D. Eisenhower became the first incumbent president to visit a Southeast Asian country when he visited the Philippines in 1960. Since then, every president, except John F. Kennedy and Jimmy Carter, has travelled to the region. The Philippines, a former U.S. colony (1902-1946) and a close U.S. ally, is the most visited Southeast Asian country with ten visits, followed by Indonesia with eight, and Thailand and Vietnam with seven. Of the eleven sovereign states in the region, all but East Timor have been visited by a sitting American president.

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See also

• Foreign policy of the United States
• Foreign relations of the United States

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