The US has great ties with Mongolia, a vast nation with a small, partly nomadic population sandwhiched between two superpowers. Ulanbattar has even sent a even small contingent of peacekeepers to Iraq, the first time Mongolian soldiers have been in Baghdad since Helegu Khan destroyed the Abbasid Caliphate in the 1250s.
George Bush is the first US president to visit Mongolia, but a US vice president visited the country many decades ago in his tour of the region. Anyone know who he was and when he visited? No googling/cheating!

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Grendel
November 21, 2005
10:01 am
phil
November 21, 2005
12:40 pm
Joe
November 21, 2005
2:59 pm
mark safranski
November 21, 2005
6:12 pm
Curzon
November 21, 2005
6:16 pm
Registan.net :: Central Asia News
November 21, 2005
7:00 pm
I’ll refrain from doing my own little roundup in favor of pointing you to all the other blogs discussing Bush’s visit to Mongolia.
Gateway Pundit has plenty of links and pictures.
Coming Anarchy has a bit of trivia regarding the visit a...
mark safranski
November 21, 2005
8:38 pm
East Asia Watch
November 21, 2005
11:49 pm
In the first ever visit of a sitting U.S. president to Mongolia, President Bush praised Mongolia as an “example of success for this region and the world” for its transition to democracy. The president also said U.S. troops were proud to f...
Dan tdaxp
November 22, 2005
3:15 pm
If Wallace and not Truman had followed Roosevelt, how much harm could he have done?
(An actual question -- I can guess, but I have never seen anyone knowledgable address it).
Curzon
November 22, 2005
3:17 pm