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| Name | Locale | Remarks | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Cairo | Attended First Cairo Conference with British Prime Minister Churchill and Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. | November 22–26, 1943 |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Cairo | Attended Second Cairo Conference with British Prime Minister Churchill and Turkish President Inonu. | December 2–7, 1943 |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Great Bitter Lake, Suez Canal, Alexandria | Met with King Farouk, Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, Saudi Arabian King Ibn Saud, and British Prime Minister Churchill. | February 13–15, 1945 |
| Richard M. Nixon | Cairo, Alexandria | Met with President Sadat. | June 12–14, 1974 |
| Jimmy Carter | Aswan | Met with President Sadat and German Chancellor Schmidt. | January 4, 1978 |
| Jimmy Carter | Cairo, Alexandria, Giza | State visit; met with President Sadat and addressed People's Assembly. | March 7–10, 1979 |
| Jimmy Carter | Cairo | Met with President Sadat. | March 13, 1979 |
| George H.W. Bush | Cairo | Discussed the Persian Gulf crisis with President Mubarak. | November 22–23, 1990 |
| William J. Clinton | Cairo | Met with President Mubarak and PLO Chairman Arafat. | October 25–26, 1994 |
| William J. Clinton | Sharm el-Sheikh | Attended the Summit of the Peacemakers. | March 13, 1996 |
| William J. Clinton | Cairo | Briefed President Mubarak on the Middle East Peace Process. | August 29, 2000 |
| William J. Clinton | Sharm el-Sheikh | Attended Israeli-Palestinian Summit Meeting. | October 16–17, 2000 |
| George W. Bush | Sharm el-Sheikh | Attended “Red Sea Summit” with the leaders of Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia, and with Palestinian Prime Minister Abbas. | June 2–3, 2003 |
| George W. Bush | Sharm el-Sheikh | Met with President Mubarak. | January 16, 2008 |
| George W. Bush | Sharm el-Sheikh | Met with President Mubarak, King Abdullah II of Jordan, Palestinian Authority President Abbas and Prime Minister Fayyad, Afghan President Karzai and Pakistani Prime Minister Gilan. Addressed the World Economic Forum. | May 17–18, 2008 |
| Barack Obama | Cairo | Met with President Mubarak and delivered and address at Cairo University. | June 4, 2009 |
| Joseph R. Biden | Sharm el-Sheikh | Attended the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference. | November 11, 2022 |