Today Obama headed straight for the pagoda, one of the city's most notable and most visited cultural destinations, after landing from Hanoi and greeting scores of excited residents.
Shifting from the historical to the modern, Obama also visited the Dreamplex business complex in downtown Ho Chi Minh City, a space for startup entrepreneurs that fits with his message about the potential benefits of closer ties to Vietnam's growing economy and its burgeoning middle class.
He told professionals there that their success will send a message about Vietnam's potential for innovation to the world, adding that the Dreamplex is where ideas are 'becoming reality' and that the young people who use the space are 'making things happen.'
He is visiting communist-led Vietnam after knocking down one of the last vestiges of Cold War antagonism by lifting an arms embargo with the former war enemy.
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