
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


C-SPAN remembers U.S. Presidents making surprise holiday visits to troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. With President Biden withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan, the United States now has no troops engaged in an active war overseas. So, this year, no surprise presidential visits to active war zones for the holidays. Revisit President Bush visiting U.S. troops in Iraq in 2003 for Thanksgiving and again for Christmas in 2008; President Obama in Afghanistan during the 2010 holiday season; and President Trump in Iraq for Christmas in 2018 and Thanksgiving in Afghanistan in 2019.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
By C-SPAN4.4
9393 ratings
C-SPAN remembers U.S. Presidents making surprise holiday visits to troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. With President Biden withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan, the United States now has no troops engaged in an active war overseas. So, this year, no surprise presidential visits to active war zones for the holidays. Revisit President Bush visiting U.S. troops in Iraq in 2003 for Thanksgiving and again for Christmas in 2008; President Obama in Afghanistan during the 2010 holiday season; and President Trump in Iraq for Christmas in 2018 and Thanksgiving in Afghanistan in 2019.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

25,923 Listeners

1,159 Listeners

246 Listeners

261 Listeners

4,024 Listeners

600 Listeners

272 Listeners

93 Listeners

748 Listeners

1,528 Listeners

6,296 Listeners

723 Listeners

2,551 Listeners

980 Listeners

40 Listeners

214 Listeners

197 Listeners

20 Listeners

48 Listeners

153 Listeners

53 Listeners

5 Listeners

573 Listeners