Photos: When US presidents have visited Vietnam

Donald Trump is set to arrive in Hanoi today (Feb. 26) for a second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

This is Trump’s second trip to Vietnam as president and he is the fourth US president to visit a unified, post-American-war Vietnam. In the 1960s, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon each visited troops in what was South Vietnam during America’s involvement in the war.

After the fall of South Vietnam’s capital Saigon—now Ho Chi Minh City—ended the war in 1975, no president visited until after diplomatic relations were normalized under Bill Clinton. He visited near the end of his second term in late 2000.

George W. Bush visited the Vietnamese capital in 2006. Barack Obama probably made the biggest presidential splash during his visit in 2016, which included a stop at a humble bun cha restaurant in Hanoi for a meal he shared with the late Anthony Bourdain.

Trump first visited Hanoi in 2017, following his appearance at an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Da Nang.

The photos illustrate the evolution of Vietnam’s relationship with the US, from military foe to a partner on the global economic stage.