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October 16, 1998
Clinton Set to Double Presidential Travel Record
He's Already Set Records for Trips, Days, and Pace of Overseas Travel
Many people have wondered: What will be President Clinton's legacy? How will history remember him? Considering his foreign travel record, Clinton is likely to be better remembered by geography than by history. He already holds every presidential record for international travel -- despite being not yet midway through his second term. Likely, by year's end he (in six years) will have fully doubled the presidential foreign travel record.

When Bill Clinton was running for office in 1992, he attacked President Bush for being the "foreign policy president," but since then, President Clinton has become the "foreign travel president" . Even using a conservative count:

Clinton holds the record for:

Foreign trips by a U.S. president: 32

Days abroad: 154

Rate of foreign travel: 27 days per year

http://www.senate.gov/~rpc/releases/1998/travel3.htm

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