As you indicated, Asia is my first foreign trip since our election in the United States, and Thailand is my first stop.

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This is her first trip to the United States in more than 20 years.

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During Mr Yeltsin's first trip to the United States in 1989, she overruled the advice of the American embassy in Moscow on how to treat him.

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Right before he took office, Pena Nieto began a trip to the United States in November saying that ties between the neighboring nations must go beyond the drug war.

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Vassilenko says his office planned the public-relations blitz in conjunction with President Nazabayev's recent trip to the United States.

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Blair's hopes of meeting Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in London later this month have been dashed after Sharon cancelled a planned trip to Britain and the United States, citing the security situation in Israel.

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Wednesday was the Pope's first full day in the United States, a trip that will also take him to New York and Philadelphia.

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For about 10 million children in the United States, a trip to the doctor can mean a serious drain on the family budget.

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So, all in all, I think the trip was very successful in underscoring the importance of the Americas to this President and to the United States.

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The trip is intended to cast a light on economic opportunities and joint interests in commerce between the United States and Latin America, and competing globally as a united block.

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Whether done in six or 60 days, a road trip across the United States is a seminal experience, and one that is worth doing four or five times, on all the major routes.

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But Clinton administration officials decided that such a trip would be at odds with the current break in diplomatic relations between the United States and Yugoslavia, unless approved by the State Department.

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On a later trip, U.S. Border Patrol Agents caught and returned him to Mexico but he later succeeded in entering the United States and benefitted from the aftermath of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, signed by President Ronald Reagan, which gave legal status to many undocumented immigrants.

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