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Diplomatic Mission

United States of America · Government / Republican Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1989Date range
2Named people
0Places

Chronological records

1989

George Herbert Walker Bush6 January 1989

Government / Republican Party Government

The United States presented photographic evidence to the United Nations Security Council to justify its shootdown of two Libyan jet fighters as self-defense, evidence the Libyan ambassador said was faked

Dan Quayle1 February 1989

Government / Republican Party Government

In his first diplomatic mission of the Bush administration, Vice President Dan Quayle begins a trip to Venezuela and El Salvador

Names involved

Dan QuayleGeorge Herbert Walker Bush

Provenance

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