Congress appropriated $100,000 in 1819 for the establishment of Liberia
(and resettlement of freemen and freed slaves from North America) by the
American Colonization Society.
Many of the people of Liberia are of American origin.
Washington supports the democracy in Liberia. In 2008 America's President George Bush arrived in Monrovia, Liberia's capital, for an official visit. This visit gave the Liberian government an air of respectability.
Liberia has always maintained close diplomatic ties with Washington. Several American leaders have visited Monrovia. In 1943 Franklin Delano Roosevelt went to Liberia. At the invitation of American president Dwight D. Eisenhower, President William Tubman (1944-1971) visited the United States in 1954.
Edwin Barclay, Liberia's President, was the first black president to spend a night in the White House.
Since the end of Liberia's civil war in 2003, the United States has contributed over $1 billion in bilateral assistance and more than $1 billion in assessed contributions to the UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL).
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton paid an official visit to Liberia in August 2009.
http://ezinearticles.com/?Fun-Facts-About-Liberia---The-Second-Black-Republic-in-the-World&id=1958874
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/6618.htm
Many of the people of Liberia are of American origin.
Washington supports the democracy in Liberia. In 2008 America's President George Bush arrived in Monrovia, Liberia's capital, for an official visit. This visit gave the Liberian government an air of respectability.
Liberia has always maintained close diplomatic ties with Washington. Several American leaders have visited Monrovia. In 1943 Franklin Delano Roosevelt went to Liberia. At the invitation of American president Dwight D. Eisenhower, President William Tubman (1944-1971) visited the United States in 1954.
Edwin Barclay, Liberia's President, was the first black president to spend a night in the White House.
Since the end of Liberia's civil war in 2003, the United States has contributed over $1 billion in bilateral assistance and more than $1 billion in assessed contributions to the UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL).
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton paid an official visit to Liberia in August 2009.
http://ezinearticles.com/?Fun-Facts-About-Liberia---The-Second-Black-Republic-in-the-World&id=1958874
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/6618.htm
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