List of international trips made by the President of the United States
Presidential international travel first occurred during the 20th century. The first six presidents to travel went by ship. President Woodrow Wilson spent almost seven months in Europe in the Aftermath of World War I. The first four presidential trips by airplane were the four World War II conferences: Casablanca, Tehran, Yalta (Franklin D. Roosevelt attended), and Potsdam (Harry S. Truman attended).
President Dwight D. Eisenhower was the first to travel by jet and the first to travel via helicopter. At the end of his term, he went on several "goodwill tours" . President John F. Kennedy had one of the most memorable trips to Europe as his final trip before he was assassinated. His successor, Lyndon B. Johnson preferred travel to Asia. Richard Nixon set a number of firsts, in particular China. Jimmy Carter spent a great deal of time in the Middle East and went on the first state visit to Africa. Ronald Reagan had a number of noteworthy state visits, particularly his summit meetings with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
International travel by a sitting President or a President elect has increased dramatically since George H. W. Bush became president in 1989. In 1990 the military version of the Boeing 747, the VC-25, was introduced for the use of the president. The planes have over 4,000 square feet (372 m2) of floor space, a bedroom and a shower, and enough secure communications to allow the plane to be a reasonable place to run the country. The plane is accompanied by a heavy lift aircraft that carries the helicopters and the limousines.
Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton have individually visited 74 different countries over their two terms apiece. Together they went to 94 different countries with a combined population of 85% of the world total. President Obama visited 35 countries during his first term in office. As of December 2015, President Obama visited 17 more countries during his second term in office.
Presidential visits of over 10,000 miles (16,093 km) are common. Round the world trips were first done by Johnson and Nixon and have been done by presidents Bush and Clinton. Trips to Europe are almost routine.
It is customary for the first international trip of a Presidency to be to Canada; since 1981 all Presidents save George W. Bush have made Canada their first visit as President.[1]
The trips are color-coded to unite multiple stops on one trip and the majority of stops in one trip. Yellow indicates a trip mostly to Europe, silver is a trip mostly in Asia, orange is a trip mostly to Latin America, and green is a trip mostly to sub-saharan Africa.
President Barack Obama
- President Obama met with Queen Elizabeth. Every president from Dwight Eisenhower (except Lyndon B. Johnson) has met and dined with The Queen.
- The previous four POTUS visits since 1998 to sub-Saharan Africa were always dedicated trips conducted at huge expense involving the mobilization of massive military resources. President Obama has suggested that he won't go for the traditional model of devoting a trip to Africa alone. Instead, African nations might be wrapped into his multinational travels more often.
- President Obama in the beginning of his presidency traveled much more often than President G.W. Bush and President Clinton. President Obama's international travel considerably diminished in his second year in office.
- When President Obama traveled to Indonesia in November 2010, he was forced to leave Indonesia a few hours earlier than originally scheduled due to the ash plumes from the volcanic eruption of Mount Merapi.
- President Obama made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan in December 2010, he was forced to leave Afghanistan early than originally scheduled meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul due to the bad weather.
- President Obama cut short a 24-hour visit to Ireland in May 2011 when an ash cloud from the erupting Grímsvötn volcano in Iceland approached Irish airspace during his visit. He had originally planned to spend the night in Dublin and to leave for London the following day, but flew from Dublin late on the night of his arrival to avoid the risk of being grounded in the morning.
- President Obama is the first sitting president to visit Cambodia and Myanmar in November 2012.
- President Obama is the first sitting president to visit Kenya and Ethiopia in July 2015.
T | # | Start | End | Country | Cities | Reason |
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1 | 1 | 19-Feb-2009 | 19-Feb-2009 | Canada | Ottawa | Met with Governor General Michaëlle Jean and Prime Minister Stephen Harper. |
2 | 2 | 31-Mar-2009 | 3-Apr-2009 | United Kingdom | London | Attended the G-20 Summit Meeting. Met with Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Gordon Brown. |
3 | 3-Apr-2009 | 4-Apr-2009 | France Germany |
Strasbourg, Baden-Baden, Kehl | Attended the NATO Summit Meeting. | |
4 | 4-Apr-2009 | 5-Apr-2009 | Czech Republic | Prague | Attended the U.S.-EU Summit Meeting. Delivered public speech on nuclear disarmament. Met with President Václav Klaus. | |
5 | 5-Apr-2009 | 7-Apr-2009 | Turkey | Ankara, Istanbul | Met with President Abdullah Gül and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Delivered a speech to the Turkish Parliament. | |
6 | 7-Apr-2009 | 8-Apr-2009 | Iraq | Baghdad | Met with President Jalal Talabani and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Visited with U.S. troops. | |
3 | 7 | 16-Apr-2009 | 17-Apr-2009 | Mexico | Mexico City | Met with President Felipe Calderón. |
8 | 17-Apr-2009 | 18-Apr-2009 | Trinidad and Tobago | Port of Spain | Attended the 5th Summit of the Americas. | |
4 | 9 | 3-Jun-2009 | 4-Jun-2009 | Saudi Arabia | Riyadh | Met with King Abdullah. |
10 | 4-Jun-2009 | 4-Jun-2009 | Egypt | Cairo, Giza | Met with President Hosni Mubarak. Toured the Giza Pyramids. Delivered a speech directed towards the wider Muslim world at Cairo University. | |
11 | 4-Jun-2009 | 5-Jun-2009 | Germany | Dresden, Buchenwald, Landstuhl | Met with Chancellor Angela Merkel. Visited the Buchenwald concentration camp and an U.S. military hospital. | |
12 | 5-Jun-2009 | 7-Jun-2009 | France | Paris, Caen | Met with President Nicolas Sarkozy. Attended the 65th anniversary of D-Day memorial ceremonies. | |
5 | 13 | 6-Jul-2009 | 8-Jul-2009 | Russia | Moscow | Met with President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Delivered a commencement speech to the New Economic School. |
14 | 8-Jul-2009 | 10-Jul-2009 | Italy | L'Aquila, Rome | Attended the 35th G8 summit. Met with President Giorgio Napolitano and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. | |
15 | 10-Jul-2009 | 10-Jul-2009 | Vatican City | Vatican City | Audience with Pope Benedict XVI. | |
16 | 10-Jul-2009 | 11-Jul-2009 | Ghana | Accra | Met with President John Atta Mills. Delivered a speech to the Ghanaian Parliament. Toured a former departing point of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, the Cape Coast Castle. | |
6 | 17 | 9-Aug-2009 | 10-Aug-2009 | Mexico | Guadalajara | Attended annual North American Leaders' Summit with President Felipe Calderón and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. |
7 | 18 | 02-Oct-2009 | 02-Oct-2009 | Denmark | Copenhagen | Met with Queen Margrethe II and Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen. Attended the 13th Olympic Congress meeting to lobby for Chicago's bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympics. |
8 | 19 | 13-Nov-2009 | 14-Nov-2009 | Japan | Tokyo | Met with Emperor Akihito and Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama. |
20 | 14-Nov-2009 | 15-Nov-2009 | Singapore | Singapore | Attended the APEC Summit Meeting. Met with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. | |
21 | 15-Nov-2009 | 18-Nov-2009 | China | Shanghai, Beijing | Held a town hall meeting with Shanghai students. Met with President Hu Jintao, NPC Chairman Wu Bangguo and Premier Wen Jiabao. Visited the Forbidden City and the Great Wall of China. | |
22 | 18-Nov-2009 | 19-Nov-2009 | South Korea | Seoul, Osan | Met with President Lee Myung-bak. Visited with U.S. troops at Osan Air Base. | |
9 | 23 | 9-Dec-2009 | 11-Dec-2009 | Norway | Oslo | Accepted the Nobel Peace Prize. |
10 | 24 | 17-Dec-2009 | 19-Dec-2009 | Denmark | Copenhagen | Attended the United Nations Climate Change Conference. |
11 | 25 | 27-Mar-2010 | 28-Mar-2010 | Afghanistan | Bagram, Kabul | Met with President Hamid Karzai. Visited with U.S. troops at Bagram Airfield. |
12 | 26 | 8-Apr-2010 | 8-Apr-2010 | Czech Republic | Prague | Signed the New START treaty with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. |
13 | 27 | 25-Jun-2010 | 27-Jun-2010 | Canada | Toronto, Huntsville | Attended the 36th G8 summit in Huntsville and the G-20 Summit Meeting in Toronto. |
14 | 28 | 6-Nov-2010 | 9-Nov-2010 | India | Mumbai, New Delhi | Participated in the US-India Business Council and Entrepreneurship Summit in Mumbai. Held a town hall meeting with Mumbai students. Met with President Pratibha Patil and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Addressed the Indian Parliament. Visited the Humayun's Tomb and the Raj Ghat. |
29 | 9-Nov-2010 | 10-Nov-2010 | Indonesia | Jakarta | Met with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Delivered a speech at the University of Indonesia. Visited the Istiqlal Mosque. | |
30 | 10-Nov-2010 | 12-Nov-2010 | South Korea | Seoul | Attended the G-20 Summit Meeting. Met with President Lee Myung-bak. Visited with U.S. troops at Yongsan Garrison. | |
31 | 12-Nov-2010 | 14-Nov-2010 | Japan | Tokyo, Yokohama, Kamakura | Attended the APEC Summit Meeting. Met with Prime Minister Naoto Kan. Visited the Kamakura Great Buddha statue. | |
15 | 32 | 19-Nov-2010 | 20-Nov-2010 | Portugal | Lisbon | Attended the NATO Summit Meeting and the U.S.-EU Summit Meeting. Met with President Aníbal Cavaco Silva and Prime Minister José Sócrates. |
16 | 33 | 3-Dec-2010 | 3-Dec-2010 | Afghanistan | Bagram | Visited with U.S. troops at Bagram Airfield. |
17 | 34 | 19-Mar-2011 | 21-Mar-2011 | Brazil | Brasília, Rio de Janeiro | Met with President Dilma Rousseff. Visited the Cidade de Deus favela and the Christ the Redeemer statue. |
35 | 21 Mar-2011 | 22 Mar-2011 | Chile | Santiago | Met with President Sebastián Piñera. | |
36 | 22 Mar-2011 | 23 Mar-2011 | El Salvador | San Salvador | Met with President Mauricio Funes. Visited the San Salvador Cathedral. | |
18 | 37 | 23-May-2011 | 23-May-2011 | Ireland | Dublin, Moneygall | Met with President Mary McAleese and Taoiseach Enda Kenny. Visited ancestral home in Moneygall, and addressed a large crowd in Dublin. |
38 | 23-May-2011 | 26-May-2011 | United Kingdom | London | Met with Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister David Cameron. Addressed Parliament. | |
39 | 26-May-2011 | 27-May-2011 | France | Deauville | Attended the 37th G8 summit. | |
40 | 27-May-2011 | 28-May-2011 | Poland | Warsaw | Met with President Bronisław Komorowski and Prime Minister Donald Tusk. Laid wreath at the Warsaw Ghetto Memorial. Visited the memorial to the victims of the Smolensk plane crash. | |
19 | 41 | 3-Nov-2011 | 4-Nov-2011 | France | Cannes | Attended the G-20 Summit Meeting. |
20 | 42 | 16-Nov-2011 | 17-Nov-2011 | Australia | Canberra, Darwin | Met with Prime Minister Julia Gillard. Addressed joint meeting of Parliament. |
43 | 17-Nov-2011 | 19-Nov-2011 | Indonesia | Nusa Dua | Attended the 19th ASEAN Summit and the 6th East Asia Summit. | |
21 | 44 | 25-Mar-2012 | 27-Mar-2012 | South Korea | Osan, Seoul | Attended the Nuclear Security Summit. Met with President Lee Myung-bak. Visited the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Visited with U.S. troops at Osan Air Base. |
22 | 45 | 13-Apr-2012 | 15-Apr-2012 | Colombia | Cartagena | Attended the 6th Summit of the Americas. |
23 | 46 | 1-May-2012 | 2-May-2012 | Afghanistan | Bagram, Kabul | Met with President Hamid Karzai. Visited with U.S. troops at Bagram Airfield. Signed the long term strategic partnership agreement between Afghanistan and United States. Spending time with U.S. troops at Bagram Airfield. Addressing the nation from there regarding the responsible end of the Afghanistan war. |
24 | 47 | 17-Jun-2012 | 19-Jun-2012 | Mexico | San José del Cabo, Los Cabos Corridor | Attended the G-20 Summit Meeting. |
25 | 48 | 18-Nov-2012 | 19-Nov-2012 | Thailand | Bangkok | Met with King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. Visited the Wat Pho Monastery. |
49 | 19-Nov-2012 | 19-Nov-2012 | Myanmar (Burma) | Yangon | Met with President Thein Sein and National League for Democracy Leader Aung San Suu Kyi to discuss Myanmar–U.S. relations in the light of the country's democratic reforms. Toured the Shwedagon Pagoda. Delivered a speech on democracy at the University of Yangon. | |
50 | 19-Nov-2012 | 20-Nov-2012 | Cambodia | Phnom Penh | Attended the 21st ASEAN Summit and the 7th East Asia Summit. Met with Prime Minister Hun Sen. | |
26 | 51 | 20-Mar-2013 | 22-Mar-2013 | Israel | Tel Aviv, Jerusalem | Met with President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Visited the Shrine of the Book and Yad Vashem, and spoke to students at the International Convention Center. |
52 | 21-Mar-2013 | 22-Mar-2013 | West Bank | Ramallah, Bethlehem | Met with President Mahmoud Abbas. Visited the Church of the Nativity. | |
53 | 22-Mar-2013 | 23-Mar-2013 | Jordan | Amman, Petra | Met with King Abdullah II. | |
27 | 54 | 2-May-2013 | 3-May-2013 | Mexico | Mexico City | Met with President Enrique Peña Nieto. |
55 | 3-May-2013 | 4-May-2013 | Costa Rica | San José | Met with President Laura Chinchilla and other Central American leaders. | |
28 | 56 | 17-Jun-2013 | 18-Jun-2013 | United Kingdom | Lough Erne | Attended the 39th G8 summit. |
57 | 18-Jun-2013 | 19-Jun-2013 | Germany | Berlin | Met with President Joachim Gauck and Chancellor Angela Merkel. Delivered a speech in front of the Brandenburg Gate. | |
29 | 58 | 26-Jun-2013 | 28-Jun-2013 | Senegal | Dakar | Met with President Macky Sall. Visited Gorée Island. |
59 | 28-Jun-2013 | 1-Jul-2013 | South Africa | Johannesburg, Pretoria, Soweto, Cape Town | Met with President Jacob Zuma and Chairwoman of the African Union Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. Visited Robben Island. | |
60 | 1-Jul-2013 | 2-Jul-2013 | Tanzania | Dar es Salaam | Met with President Jakaya Kikwete. | |
30 | 61 | 4-Sep-2013 | 5-Sep-2013 | Sweden | Stockholm | Met with King Carl XVI Gustaf and Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt. Also met with leaders of the Nordic countries. Attended an event honoring Raoul Wallenberg at the Great Synagogue of Stockholm. |
62 | 5-Sep-2013 | 6-Sep-2013 | Russia | St. Petersburg | Attended the G-20 Summit Meeting. | |
31 | 63 | 7-Dec-2013 | 10-Dec-2013 | South Africa | Johannesburg | Attended the memorial service for former President Nelson Mandela. |
32 | 64 | 19-Feb-2014 | 19-Feb-2014 | Mexico | Toluca | Attended annual North American Leaders' Summit with President Enrique Peña Nieto and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. |
33 | 65 | 24-Mar-2014 | 25-Mar-2014 | Netherlands | Amsterdam, Hague | Attended the Nuclear Security Summit. Also attended the G-7 summit on the crisis in Ukraine and the annexation of the Crimea. Met with Prime Minister Mark Rutte. Also met with King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands at the Royal Palace of Amsterdam. |
66 | 26-Mar-2014 | 26-Mar-2014 | Belgium | Brussels | Attended the U.S.-EU Summit Meeting. Laid wreath and tour the Flanders Field American Cemetery and Memorial with King Philippe and Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo. Delivered a speech at the Centre for Fine Arts (BOZAR). | |
67 | 27-Mar-2014 | 27-Mar-2014 | Vatican City | Vatican City | Audience with Pope Francis. | |
68 | 27-Mar-2014 | 27-Mar-2014 | Italy | Rome | Met with President Giorgio Napolitano and Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. Visited the Roman Colosseum. | |
69 | 28-Mar-2014 | 28-Mar-2014 | Saudi Arabia | Riyadh | Met with King Abdullah. | |
34 | 70 | 23-Apr-2014 | 25-Apr-2014 | Japan | Tokyo | Met with Emperor Akihito and Prime Minister Shinzō Abe. |
71 | 25-Apr-2014 | 26-Apr-2014 | South Korea | Seoul | Met with President Park Geun-hye. Visited with U.S. troops at Yongsan Garrison. | |
72 | 26-Apr-2014 | 28-Apr-2014 | Malaysia | Kuala Lumpur | Met with Prime Minister Najib Razak. Delivered a speech at the University of Malaya. | |
73 | 28-Apr-2014 | 29-Apr-2014 | Philippines | Manila | Met with President Benigno Aquino III. Visited with U.S. and Philippine troops at Fort Bonifacio. Laid wreath at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial. | |
35 | 74 | 25-May-2014 | 26-May-2014 | Afghanistan | Bagram | Visited with U.S. troops at Bagram Airfield. |
36 | 75 | 3-Jun-2014 | 4-Jun-2014 | Poland | Warsaw | Met with President Bronisław Komorowski and Prime Minister Donald Tusk. Attended the 25th anniversary of Poland's democracy. |
76 | 4-Jun-2014 | 5-Jun-2014 | Belgium | Brussels | Attended the 40th G7 summit. | |
77 | 5-Jun-2014 | 6-Jun-2014 | France | Paris, Colleville, Ouistreham | Met with President François Hollande. Attended the 70th anniversary of D-Day memorial ceremonies. | |
37 | 78 | 3-Sep-2014 | 4-Sep-2014 | Estonia | Tallinn | Met with the Presidents of the Baltic states. Visited with U.S. and Estonian members of the military. Delivered a speech at Tallinn Airport with Prime Minister Taavi Rõivas. |
79 | 4-Sep-2014 | 5-Sep-2014 | United Kingdom | Newport | Attended the NATO Summit Meeting. | |
38 | 80 | 10-Nov-2014 | 12-Nov-2014 | China | Beijing | Attended the APEC Summit Meeting. Met with President Xi Jinping, Premier Li Keqiang and NPC Chairman Zhang Dejiang. |
81 | 12-Nov-2014 | 15-Nov-2014 | Myanmar (Burma) | Naypyidaw, Yangon | Attended the 25th ASEAN Summit and the 9th East Asia Summit. Met with President Thein Sein and National League for Democracy Leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Delivered a speech at the University of Yangon. | |
82 | 15-Nov-2014 | 16-Nov-2014 | Australia | Brisbane | Attended the G-20 Summit Meeting. | |
39 | 83 | 25-Jan-2015 | 27-Jan-2015 | India | New Delhi | Met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Participated in the Indian Republic Day celebration. Addressed an event organized by the US-India Business Council. |
84 | 27-Jan-2015 | 27-Jan-2015 | Saudi Arabia | Riyadh | Met with the newly appointed King Salman. Also paid respects to the late King Abdullah. | |
40 | 85 | 9-Apr-2015 | 10-Apr-2015 | Jamaica | Kingston | Met with Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller. Visited the Bob Marley Museum. Delivered a speech at the University of the West Indies. Laid wreath at the National Heroes Park. |
86 | 10-Apr-2015 | 11-Apr-2015 | Panama | Panama City | Attended the 7th Summit of the Americas. | |
41 | 87 | 7-Jun-2015 | 8-Jun-2015 | Germany | Schloss Elmau | Attended the 41st G7 summit. |
42 | 88 | 24-Jul-2015 | 26-Jul-2015 | Kenya | Nairobi | Attended the 2015 Global Entrepreneurship Summit. Also met with President Uhuru Kenyatta. |
89 | 26-Jul-2015 | 28-Jul-2015 | Ethiopia | Addis Ababa | Met with the government of Ethiopia. Visited the African Union headquarters. | |
43 | 90 | 14-Nov-2015 | 17-Nov-2015 | Turkey | Antalya | Attended the G-20 Summit Meeting. |
91 | 17-Nov-2015 | 20-Nov-2015 | Philippines | Manila | Attended the APEC Summit Meeting. | |
92 | 20-Nov-2015 | 22-Nov-2015 | Malaysia | Kuala Lumpur | Attended the 26th ASEAN Summit and the 10th East Asia Summit. | |
44 | 93 | 29-Nov-2015 | 1-Dec-2015 | France | Paris | Attended the United Nations Climate Change Conference. |
President George W. Bush
President George W. Bush made a secret trip to Iraq on Thanksgiving 2003 to dine with the troops. His father had made a similar visit to the U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia just after receiving the new VC-25 planes just before Thanksgiving 1990.
Like President Clinton, President Bush made two separate trips to Sub-Saharan Africa. On one trip he visited three of the poorest countries in the world: Liberia, Rwanda, and Benin.
According to the State Department only two of Bush's overseas presidential visits were deemed state visits. One invitation was by Queen Elizabeth II, which Buckingham Palace claimed was the only state visit from an American president. All the other visits were at the invitation of the prime minister who is not the head of state. The second state visit was to Poland.
On 15–20 November 2006, President Bush made the third round the world presidential flight (after LBJ and Nixon). He went to Russia, Singapore, Vietnam, and Indonesia.
T | # | Start | End | Country | Cities | Reason |
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1 | 1 | 16-Feb-2001 | 16-Feb-2001 | Mexico | San Cristobal | Met with President Vicente Fox. |
2 | 2 | 20-Apr-2001 | 22-Apr-2001 | Canada | Quebec | Attended the 3rd Summit of the Americas. |
3 | 3 | 12-Jun-2001 | 13-Jun-2001 | Spain | Madrid | Met with King Juan Carlos I and Prime Minister José María Aznar. |
4 | 13-Jun-2001 | 14-Jun-2001 | Belgium | Brussels | Attended the NATO Summit Meeting. Met with King Albert II and Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt. | |
5 | 14-Jun-2001 | 15-Jun-2001 | Sweden | Gothenburg | Attended the U.S.-EU Summit Meeting. Met with King Carl XVI Gustaf and Prime Minister Göran Persson. | |
6 | 15-Jun-2001 | 16-Jun-2001 | Poland | Warsaw | State Visit. Met with President Aleksander Kwaśniewski. | |
7 | 16-Jun-2001 | 16-Jun-2001 | Slovenia | Kranj | Met with Prime Minister Janez Drnovšek and Russian President Vladimir Putin. | |
4 | 8 | 18-Jul-2001 | 20-Jul-2001 | United Kingdom | London, Chequers, Halton, Brize Norton | Met with Prime Minister Tony Blair and Queen Elizabeth II. |
9 | 20-Jul-2001 | 24-Jul-2001 | Italy | Genoa, Castel Gandolfo, Rome | Attended the 27th G8 summit. Met with Pope John Paul II at Castel Gandolfo, and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi in Rome. | |
10 | 24-Jul-2001 | 24-Jul-2001 | Kosovo | Camp Bondsteel | Addressed U.S. military personnel. | |
5 | 11 | 18-Oct-2001 | 21-Oct-2001 | China | Shanghai | Attended the APEC Summit Meeting. |
6 | 12 | 16-Feb-2002 | 19-Feb-2002 | Japan | Tokyo | Met with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and Emperor Akihito. Addressed the Diet. |
13 | 19-Feb-2002 | 21-Feb-2002 | South Korea | Seoul, Dorasan, Osan | Met with President Kim Dae-jung. Visited the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Addressed U.S. military personnel. | |
14 | 21-Feb-2002 | 22-Feb-2002 | China | Beijing | Met with President Jiang Zemin and Premier Zhu Rongji. | |
7 | 15 | 21-Mar-2002 | 22-Mar-2002 | Mexico | Monterrey | Attended the International Conference on Financing for Development. Met with President Vicente Fox. |
16 | 23-Mar-2002 | 24-Mar-2002 | Peru | Lima | Met with the Presidents of Peru, Colombia, and Bolivia, and with the Vice President of Ecuador. | |
17 | 24-Mar-2002 | 24-Mar-2002 | El Salvador | San Salvador | Attended the Summit Meeting of Presidents of the Central American Republics. | |
8 | 18 | 22-May-2002 | 23-May-2002 | Germany | Berlin | Met with Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. Addressed the Bundestag. |
19 | 23-May-2002 | 26-May-2002 | Russia | Moscow, St. Petersburg | Summit meeting with President Vladimir Putin. Signed Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty. | |
20 | 26-May-2002 | 27-May-2002 | France | Paris, St. Mere-Eglise, Colleville | Met with President Jacques Chirac. Delivered a Memorial Day address in Normandy. | |
21 | 27-May-2002 | 28-May-2002 | Italy | Rome | Met with President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Attended the NATO Summit Meeting and inaugurated the NATO-Russia Council. | |
22 | 28-May-2002 | 28-May-2002 | Vatican City | Vatican City | Audience with Pope John Paul II. | |
9 | 23 | 25-Jun-2002 | 27-Jun-2002 | Canada | Kananaskis | Attended the 28th G8 summit. |
10 | 24 | 26-Oct-2002 | 27-Oct-2002 | Mexico | Los Cabos | Attended the APEC Summit Meeting. |
11 | 25 | 19-Nov-2002 | 22-Nov-2002 | Czech Republic | Prague | Attended the NATO and EAPC Summit Meetings. |
26 | 22-Nov-2002 | 22-Nov-2002 | Russia | St. Petersburg | Met with President Vladimir Putin. | |
27 | 22-Nov-2002 | 23-Nov-2002 | Lithuania | Vilnius | Met with the Presidents of the Baltic states. | |
28 | 23-Nov-2002 | 23-Nov-2002 | Romania | Bucharest | Met with President Ion Iliescu. | |
12 | 29 | 16-Mar-2003 | 16-Mar-2003 | Portugal | Terceira | Discussed the Iraq crisis with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar and Portuguese Prime Minister José Manuel Barroso. |
13 | 30 | 7-Apr-2003 | 8-Apr-2003 | United Kingdom | Belfast, Hillsborough | Met with Prime Minister Tony Blair to discuss the reconstruction of Iraq. Also met with Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and Northern Irish political leaders. |
14 | 31 | 31-May-2003 | 31-May-2003 | Poland | Kraków, Oświęcim | Met with President Aleksander Kwaśniewski and Prime Minister Leszek Miller. Visited former Nazi-German concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in the town of Oświęcim. |
32 | 31-May-2003 | 1-Jun-2003 | Russia | St. Petersburg | Met with President Vladimir Putin. Attended ceremonies commemorating the city's 300th anniversary. | |
33 | 1-Jun-2003 | 2-Jun-2003 | France | Evian-les-Bains | Attended the 29th G8 summit. Met with Chinese President Hu Jintao. | |
34 | 2-Jun-2003 | 3-Jun-2003 | Egypt | Sharm el-Sheikh | Attended the "Red Sea Summit" with the leaders of Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, and with Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas. | |
35 | 4-Jun-2003 | 4-Jun-2003 | Jordan | Aqaba | Attended meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas. Met with King Abdullah II. | |
36 | 4-Jun-2003 | 5-Jun-2003 | Qatar | Doha | Met with Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani. Visited U.S. Central Command headquarters and addressed U.S. military personnel. Overflew Baghdad en route to Qatar. | |
15 | 37 | 8-Jul-2003 | 8-Jul-2003 | Senegal | Dakar, Goree Island | Met with President Abdoulaye Wade. |
38 | 8-Jul-2003 | 11-Jul-2003 | South Africa | Pretoria | Met with President Thabo Mbeki. | |
39 | 10-Jul-2003 | 10-Jul-2003 | Botswana | Gaborone | Met with President Festus Mogae. Toured Mokoldi Nature Reserve. | |
40 | 11-Jul-2003 | 11-Jul-2003 | Uganda | Kampala | Met with President Yoweri Museveni. | |
41 | 11-Jul-2003 | 12-Jul-2003 | Nigeria | Abuja | Met with President Olusegun Obasanjo. | |
16 | 42 | 17-Oct-2003 | 18-Oct-2003 | Japan | Tokyo | Met with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. |
43 | 18-Oct-2003 | 19-Oct-2003 | Philippines | Manila | Addressed a joint session of the Philippine Congress and met with President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. | |
44 | 18-Oct-2003 | 21-Oct-2003 | Thailand | Bangkok | Attended the APEC Summit Meeting. | |
45 | 21-Oct-2003 | 22-Oct-2003 | Singapore | Singapore | Met with Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. | |
46 | 22-Oct-2003 | 22-Oct-2003 | Indonesia | Denpasar | Met with President Megawati Sukarnoputri and Muslim religious leaders. | |
47 | 22-Oct-2003 | 22-Oct-2003 | Australia | Canberra | Met with Prime Minister John Howard. Addressed joint meeting of Parliament. | |
17 | 48 | 18-Nov-2003 | 21-Nov-2003 | United Kingdom | London, Sedgefield | State Visit. Met with Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair. |
49 | 27-Nov-2003 | 27-Nov-2003 | Iraq | Baghdad | Met with members of the Coalition Provisional Authority and the Iraqi Governing Council. Addressed U.S. military personnel. | |
18 | 50 | 12-Jan-2004 | 13-Jan-2004 | Mexico | Monterrey | Attended the Monterrey Special Summit of the Americas. |
19 | 51 | 4-Jun-2004 | 5-Jun-2004 | Italy | Rome | Met with President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. |
52 | 4-Jun-2004 | 4-Jun-2004 | Vatican City | Vatican City | Met with Pope John Paul II. | |
53 | 5-Jun-2004 | 6-Jun-2004 | France | Paris, Colleville, Caen, Arromanches | Met with President Jacques Chirac. Attended the 60th anniversary of D-Day memorial ceremonies. | |
20 | 54 | 25-Jun-2004 | 26-Jun-2004 | Ireland | Shannon, Dromoland Castle | Attended the U.S.-EU Summit Meeting. Met with Taoiseach Bertie Ahern. |
55 | 26-Jun-2004 | 29-Jun-2004 | Turkey | Ankara, Istanbul | Met with President Ahmet Necdet Sezer and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Attended the NATO Summit meeting in Istanbul. | |
21 | 56 | 19-Nov-2004 | 22-Nov-2004 | Chile | Santiago | Attended the APEC Summit Meeting. |
57 | 22-Nov-2004 | 22-Nov-2004 | Colombia | Cartagena | Met with President Álvaro Uribe. | |
22 | 58 | 30-Nov-2004 | 1-Dec-2004 | Canada | Ottawa, Gatineau, Halifax | Met with Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Myra Freeman and Prime Minister Paul Martin. |
23 | 59 | 20-Feb-2005 | 23-Feb-2005 | Belgium | Brussels | Attended the NATO and EU Summit Meetings. |
60 | 23-Feb-2005 | 23-Feb-2005 | Germany | Mainz, Wiesbaden | Met with Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. Visited U.S. military personnel. | |
61 | 23-Feb-2005 | 24-Feb-2005 | Slovakia | Bratislava | Met with Prime Minister Mikuláš Dzurinda and Russian President Vladimir Putin. | |
24 | 62 | 6-Apr-2005 | 8-Apr-2005 | Vatican City | Vatican City | Attended the funeral of Pope John Paul II. |
63 | 6-Apr-2005 | 8-Apr-2005 | Italy | Rome | Met with President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. | |
25 | 64 | 6-May-2005 | 7-May-2005 | Latvia | Riga | Met with the Presidents of the Baltic states. |
65 | 7-May-2005 | 8-May-2005 | Netherlands | Maastricht, Valkenburg, Margraten | Met with Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende. Addressed at a U.S. military cemetery. | |
66 | 8-May-2005 | 9-May-2005 | Russia | Moscow | Met with President Vladimir Putin. Attended the 60th anniversary of VE Day ceremonies. | |
67 | 9-May-2005 | 10-May-2005 | Georgia | Tbilisi | Met with President Mikheil Saakashvili. | |
26 | 68 | 5-Jul-2005 | 6-Jul-2005 | Denmark | Kastrup, Fredensborg, Copenhagen | Met with Queen Margrethe II and Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen. |
69 | 6-Jul-2005 | 8-Jul-2005 | United Kingdom | Gleneagles | Attended the 31st G8 summit. | |
27 | 70 | 3-Nov-2005 | 5-Nov-2005 | Argentina | Mar del Plata | Attended the 4th Summit of the Americas. |
71 | 5-Nov-2005 | 6-Nov-2005 | Brazil | Brasília | Met with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. | |
72 | 6-Nov-2005 | 7-Nov-2005 | Panama | Panama City | Met with President Martín Torrijos. | |
28 | 73 | 15-Nov-2005 | 16-Nov-2005 | Japan | Kyoto | Met with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. |
74 | 16-Nov-2005 | 20-Nov-2005 | South Korea | Pusan, Gyeongju, Osan | Attended the APEC Summit Meeting. Met with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Addressed U.S. military personnel. | |
75 | 20-Nov-2005 | 21-Nov-2005 | China | Beijing | Met with President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao. | |
76 | 21-Nov-2005 | 21-Nov-2005 | Mongolia | Ulan Bator | Met with President Nambaryn Enkhbayar and Prime Minister Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj. | |
29 | 77 | 28-Feb-2006 | 28-Feb-2006 | Ireland | Shannon | Met with U.S. Marines who were en route to Iraq. |
78 | 1-Mar-2006 | 1-Mar-2006 | Afghanistan | Bagram, Kabul | Met with President Hamid Karzai. Dedicated new U.S. Embassy. Addressed U.S. military personnel. | |
79 | 1-Mar-2006 | 3-Mar-2006 | India | New Delhi, Hyderabad | Met with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Signed U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Agreement. | |
80 | 3-Mar-2006 | 4-Mar-2006 | Pakistan | Islamabad | Met with President Pervez Musharraf. | |
30 | 81 | 30-Mar-2006 | 31-Mar-2006 | Mexico | Cancun, Chichen-Itza | Attended annual North American Leaders' Summit with President Vicente Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. |
31 | 82 | 13-Jun-2006 | 13-Jun-2006 | Iraq | Baghdad | Met with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Addressed U.S. military personnel. |
32 | 83 | 20-Jun-2006 | 21-Jun-2006 | Austria | Vienna | Attended the U.S.-EU Summit Meeting. |
84 | 21-Jun-2006 | 22-Jun-2006 | Hungary | Budapest | Met with President László Sólyom and Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány. Attended the 50th anniversary of the Hungarian Uprising. | |
33 | 85 | 12-Jul-2006 | 14-Jul-2006 | Germany | Stralsund, Trinwillershagen | Met with Chancellor Angela Merkel. |
86 | 14-Jul-2006 | 17-Jul-2006 | Russia | St. Petersburg | Attended the 32nd G8 summit. Met with Chinese President Hu Jintao, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. | |
34 | 87 | 15-Nov-2006 | 15-Nov-2006 | Russia | Moscow | Met with President Vladimir Putin. |
88 | 16-Nov-2006 | 17-Nov-2006 | Singapore | Singapore | Met with Acting President Pillay and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Addressed National University of Singapore. | |
89 | 17-Nov-2006 | 20-Nov-2006 | Vietnam | Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City | Attended the APEC Summit Meeting. | |
90 | 20-Nov-2006 | 20-Nov-2006 | Indonesia | Jakarta, Bogor | Met with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. | |
35 | 91 | 27-Nov-2006 | 28-Nov-2006 | Estonia | Tallinn | Met with President Toomas Hendrik Ilves. |
92 | 28-Nov-2006 | 29-Nov-2006 | Latvia | Riga | Attended the NATO Summit Meeting. | |
93 | 29-Nov-2006 | 30-Nov-2006 | Jordan | Amman | Met with King Abdullah II and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. | |
36 | 94 | 8-Mar-2007 | 9-Mar-2007 | Brazil | São Paulo | Met with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. |
95 | 9-Mar-2007 | 11-Mar-2007 | Uruguay | Montevideo | Met with President Tabaré Vázquez. | |
96 | 11-Mar-2007 | 11-Mar-2007 | Colombia | Bogota | Met with President Álvaro Uribe. | |
97 | 11-Mar-2007 | 12-Mar-2007 | Guatemala | Guatemala City, Santa Cruz Balanyá, Iximche | Met with President Óscar Berger. | |
98 | 12-Mar-2007 | 14-Mar-2007 | Mexico | Mérida, Uxmal | Met with President Felipe Calderón. Visited Mayan ruins. | |
37 | 99 | 4-Jun-2007 | 5-Jun-2007 | Czech Republic | Prague | Met with President Václav Klaus and Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek. Addressed Conference on Democracy and Security. |
100 | 5-Jun-2007 | 8-Jun-2007 | Germany | Heiligendamm | Attended the 33rd G8 summit. Met with Chinese President Hu Jintao. | |
101 | 8-Jun-2007 | 8-Jun-2007 | Poland | Gdańsk, Jurata | Landed at Lech Walesa Airport in Gdańsk. Met with President Lech Kaczyński at the presidential resort in Jurata on the Baltic Coast. | |
102 | 8-Jun-2007 | 10-Jun-2007 | Italy | Rome | Met with President Giorgio Napolitano and Prime Minister Romano Prodi. | |
103 | 9-Jun-2007 | 9-Jun-2007 | Vatican City | Vatican City | Audience with Pope Benedict XVI. | |
104 | 10-Jun-2007 | 10-Jun-2007 | Albania | Tirana | Met with President Alfred Moisiu and Prime Minister Sali Berisha. | |
105 | 10-Jun-2007 | 11-Jun-2007 | Bulgaria | Sofia | Met with President Georgi Parvanov and Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev. | |
38 | 106 | 20-Aug-2007 | 21-Aug-2007 | Canada | Montebello | Attended annual North American Leaders' Summit with Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderon. |
39 | 107 | 3-Sep-2007 | 3-Sep-2007 | Iraq | Al Asad Airbase | Met with Gen. David Petraeus, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, senior U.S. officials, Iraqi political leaders. Addressed U.S military personnel. |
108 | 3-Sep-2007 | 8-Sep-2007 | Australia | Sydney | Attended the APEC Summit Meeting. | |
40 | 109 | 9-Jan-2008 | 11-Jan-2008 | Israel | Tel Aviv, Jerusalem | Met with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and President Shimon Peres. Visited Yad Vashem. |
110 | 10-Jan-2008 | 10-Jan-2008 | Palestinian National Authority | Ramallah, Bethlehem | Met with President Mahmoud Abbas. Visited the Church of the Nativity. | |
111 | 11-Jan-2008 | 12-Jan-2008 | Kuwait | Kuwait City, Camp Arifjan | Attended Roundtable on Democracy and Development. Met with Gen. David Petraeus and United States Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker at Camp Arifjan. Addressed U.S. military personnel. | |
112 | 12-Jan-2008 | 13-Jan-2008 | Bahrain | Manama | Met with King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa. Addressed U.S. military personnel. | |
113 | 13-Jan-2008 | 14-Jan-2008 | United Arab Emirates | Abu Dhabi, Dubai | Met with President Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. | |
114 | 14-Jan-2008 | 16-Jan-2008 | Saudi Arabia | Riyadh, Al-Janadriyah | Met with King Abdullah. | |
115 | 16-Jan-2008 | 16-Jan-2008 | Egypt | Sharm el-Sheikh | Met with President Hosni Mubarak. | |
41 | 116 | 16-Feb-2008 | 16-Feb-2008 | Benin | Porto Novo | Met with President Yayi Boni. |
117 | 16-Feb-2008 | 19-Feb-2008 | Tanzania | Dar es Salaam, Arusha | Met with President Jakaya Kikwete. Signed Millenimum Challenge agreement. | |
118 | 19-Feb-2008 | 19-Feb-2008 | Rwanda | Kigali | Met with President Paul Kagame. Dedicated new Embassy. | |
119 | 19-Feb-2008 | 21-Feb-2008 | Ghana | Accra | Met with President John Kufuor. | |
120 | 21-Feb-2008 | 21-Feb-2008 | Liberia | Monrovia | Met with President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. | |
42 | 121 | 1-Apr-2008 | 1-Apr-2008 | Ukraine | Kiev | Met with President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. |
122 | 2-Apr-2008 | 4-Apr-2008 | Romania | Bucharest | Attended the NATO Summit Meeting. | |
123 | 4-Apr-2008 | 5-Apr-2008 | Croatia | Zagreb | Met with President Stjepan Mesić. | |
124 | 5-Apr-2008 | 6-Apr-2008 | Russia | Sochi | Met with President Vladimir Putin and President-elect Dmitry Medvedev. | |
43 | 125 | 14-May-2008 | 16-May-2008 | Israel | Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Masada | Met with President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Addressed the Knesset. Attended Israel's 60th anniversary. |
126 | 16-May-2008 | 17-May-2008 | Saudi Arabia | Riyadh, al-Janadriyah | Met with King Abdullah. | |
127 | 17-May-2008 | 18-May-2008 | Egypt | Sharm el-Sheikh | Met with President Hosni Mubarak, King Abdullah II of Jordan, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani. Addressed the World Economic Forum. | |
44 | 128 | 9-Jun-2008 | 10-Jun-2008 | Slovenia | Ljubljana | Met with President Danilo Türk and Prime Minister Janez Janša. Attended the EU-US Summit Meeting. |
129 | 10-Jun-2008 | 11-Jun-2008 | Germany | Meseberg | Met with Chancellor Angela Merkel. | |
130 | 11-Jun-2008 | 13-Jun-2008 | Italy | Rome | Met with President Giorgio Napolitano and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. | |
131 | 13-Jun-2008 | 13-Jun-2008 | Vatican City | Vatican City | Met with Pope Benedict XVI. | |
132 | 13-Jun-2008 | 15-Jun-2008 | France | Paris | Met with President Nicolas Sarkozy. Addressed the OECD. Attended wreath-laying ceremonies at Suresnes and Fort Mont-Valérien. | |
133 | 15-Jun-2008 | 16-Jun-2008 | United Kingdom | London, Belfast | Met with Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle. Met with Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Quartet Representative Tony Blair. In Belfast, met with First Minister Peter Robertson and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness. | |
45 | 134 | 6-Jul-2008 | 9-Jul-2008 | Japan | Tōyako | Attended the 34th G8 summit. Met with Tanzanian President Kikwete, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Chinese President Hu Jintao and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak. |
46 | 135 | 5-Aug-2008 | 6-Aug-2008 | South Korea | Seoul | Met with President Lee Myung-bak. Addressed U.S. military personnel. |
136 | 6-Aug-2008 | 7-Aug-2008 | Thailand | Bangkok | Met with Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej. | |
137 | 7-Aug-2008 | 11-Aug-2008 | China | Beijing | Attended the opening ceremonies of the Olympics Games. Met with President Hu Jintao and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. | |
47 | 138 | 21-Nov-2008 | 23-Nov-2008 | Peru | Lima | Attended the APEC Summit Meeting. |
48 | 139 | 14-Dec-2008 | 14-Dec-2008 | Iraq | Baghdad | Met with President Jalal Talabani and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Signed Strategic Framework and Security Agreements. Visited U.S. military personnel. |
140 | 14-Dec-2008 | 15-Dec-2008 | Afghanistan | Kabul | Met with President Hamid Karzai. Visited U.S. military personnel. |
President Bill Clinton
- President Clinton did not do much international travel in 1993, his first year in office. The most important trip was the G7 economic summit. He also had a lull during his re-election campaign in 1996.
- During the last year of his presidency, his daughter Chelsea assumed some White House hostess responsibilities when his wife Hillary was campaigning for the U.S. Senate. Chelsea traveled with him on several overseas trips and attending state dinners with him.
T | # | Start | End | Country | Cities | Reason |
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1 | 1 | 3-Apr-1993 | 4-Apr-1993 | Canada | Vancouver | Summit Meeting with Russian President Boris Yeltsin. Also met with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. |
2 | 2 | 6-Jul-1993 | 10-Jul-1993 | Japan | Tokyo | Attended the 19th G7 summit. Met with Russian President Boris Yeltsin. |
3 | 10-Jul-1993 | 11-Jul-1993 | South Korea | Seoul | Met with President Kim Young-sam. Addressed the Korean National Assembly. Visited U.S. military personnel. | |
3 | 4 | 9-Jan-1994 | 11-Jan-1994 | Belgium | Brussels | Attended the NATO Summit Meeting. Met with King Albert II and Prime Minister Jean-Luc Dehaene. |
5 | 11-Jan-1994 | 12-Jan-1994 | Czech Republic | Prague | Met with the Presidents and Prime Ministers of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. | |
6 | 12-Jan-1994 | 12-Jan-1994 | Ukraine | Kiev | Met with President Leonid Kravchuk. | |
7 | 12-Jan-1994 | 15-Jan-1994 | Russia | Moscow | Met with President Boris Yeltsin and senior Russian officials. Signed nuclear disarmament agreement with Ukraine. | |
8 | 15-Jan-1994 | 15-Jan-1994 | Belarus | Minsk | Met with Chairman Stanislav Shushkevich. | |
9 | 15-Jan-1994 | 16-Jan-1994 | Switzerland | Geneva | Met with Syrian President Hafez al-Assad. | |
4 | 10 | 2-Jun-1994 | 4-Jun-1994 | Italy | Rome, Nettuno | Met with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro. Visited U.S. Military Cemetery. |
11 | 2-Jun-1994 | 2-Jun-1994 | Vatican City | Vatican City | Audience with Pope John Paul II. | |
12 | 4-Jun-1994 | 5-Jun-1994 | United Kingdom | Cambridge, London, Portsmouth | Visited U.S. Military Cemetery. Met with Prime Minister John Major. Attended state dinner with Queen Elizabeth II and heads of state and government of Canada, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Australia, New Zealand, Norway and Belgium. Attended D-Day commemorative ceremonies. | |
13 | 6-Jun-1994 | 8-Jun-1994 | France | Colleville, Paris | Attended the 50th anniversary of D-Day memorial ceremonies. Met with President François Mitterrand and senior French officials. Addressed the French National Assembly. | |
14 | 8-Jun-1994 | 8-Jun-1994 | United Kingdom | Oxford | Received honorary degree from Oxford University. | |
5 | 15 | 6-Jul-1994 | 6-Jul-1994 | Latvia | Riga | Met with the Presidents of the Baltic states. |
16 | 6-Jul-1994 | 7-Jul-1994 | Poland | Warsaw | Addressed the Polish Parliament. Attended ceremonies commemorating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. | |
17 | 7-Jul-1994 | 10-Jul-1994 | Italy | Naples | Attended the 20th G7 summit. Met with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and Russian President Boris Yeltsin. | |
18 | 10-Jul-1994 | 12-Jul-1994 | Germany | Bonn, Ludwigshafen, Berlin | Met with Chancellor Helmut Kohl and German political leaders. Delivered a public address at the Brandenburg Gate. Attended deactivation ceremony for the Berlin Brigade. | |
6 | 19 | 25-Oct-1994 | 26-Oct-1994 | Egypt | Cairo | Met with President Hosni Mubarak and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat. |
20 | 26-Oct-1994 | 27-Oct-1994 | Jordan | Aqaba, Wadi Arava, Amman | Attended the signing of the Israel-Jordan peace agreement. Addressed the Jordanian Parliament. | |
21 | 27-Oct-1994 | 27-Oct-1994 | Syria | Damascus | Met with President Hafez al-Assad. | |
22 | 27-Oct-1994 | 28-Oct-1994 | Israel | Jerusalem | Met with senior Israeli officials. Addressed the Knesset. | |
23 | 28-Oct-1994 | 28-Oct-1994 | Kuwait | Kuwait City | Met with the Amir of Kuwait. Addressed U.S. military personnel. | |
24 | 28-Oct-1994 | 28-Oct-1994 | Saudi Arabia | King Khalid Military City | Met with King Fahd. | |
7 | 25 | 12-Nov-1994 | 13-Nov-1994 | Philippines | Manila, Corregidor Island | State Visit. Met with President Fidel V. Ramos. Visited World War II battlegrounds of Corregidor Island. |
26 | 13-Nov-1994 | 16-Nov-1994 | Indonesia | Jakarta, Bogor | Attended the APEC Summit Meeting, followed by State Visit. | |
8 | 27 | 5-Dec-1994 | 5-Dec-1994 | Hungary | Budapest | Attended CSCE Summit Meeting. |
9 | 28 | 23-Feb-1995 | 24-Feb-1995 | Canada | Ottawa | State Visit. Met with Governor General Roméo LeBlanc and Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. |
10 | 29 | 31-Mar-1995 | 31-Mar-1995 | Haiti | Port-au-Prince | Attended transition ceremony for United Nations Mission in Haiti. |
11 | 30 | 9-May-1995 | 11-May-1995 | Russia | Moscow | Summit meeting. Attended the 50th anniversary of VE Day ceremonies. |
31 | 11-May-1995 | 12-May-1995 | Ukraine | Kiev | State Visit. Met with President Leonid Kuchma. | |
12 | 32 | 15-Jun-1995 | 17-Jun-1995 | Canada | Halifax | Attended the 21st G7 summit. Met with Russian President Boris Yeltsin. |
13 | 33 | 5-Nov-1995 | 6-Nov-1995 | Israel | Jerusalem | Attended the funeral of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. |
14 | 34 | 28-Nov-1995 | 1-Dec-1995 | United Kingdom | London, Belfast, Derry | Met with Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister John Major. Addressed Parliament. Delivered several public addresses in Northern Ireland. |
35 | 1-Dec-1995 | 2-Dec-1995 | Ireland | Dublin | Met with President Mary Robinson and Taoiseach John Bruton. | |
36 | 2-Dec-1995 | 2-Dec-1995 | Germany | Baumholder | Addressed U.S. military personnel. Met with Chancellor Helmut Kohl. | |
37 | 2-Dec-1995 | 3-Dec-1995 | Spain | Madrid | Attended the European Union Summit Meeting. | |
15 | 38 | 14-Dec-1995 | 14-Dec-1995 | France | Paris | Attended the signing of the Bosnian peace treaty. |
16 | 39 | 13-Jan-1996 | 13-Jan-1996 | Italy | Aviano Air Base | Met with U.S. military personnel. |
40 | 13-Jan-1996 | 13-Jan-1996 | Hungary | Taszár | Met with U.S. military personnel. | |
41 | 13-Jan-1996 | 13-Jan-1996 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Tuzla | Met with President Alija Izetbegovic. Addressed U.S. military personnel. | |
42 | 13-Jan-1996 | 13-Jan-1996 | Croatia | Zagreb | Met with President Franjo Tudjman. | |
17 | 43 | 13-Mar-1996 | 13-Mar-1996 | Egypt | Sharm el-Sheikh | Attended the Summit of the Peacemakers. |
44 | 13-Mar-1996 | 14-Mar-1996 | Israel | Jerusalem, Tel Aviv | Discussed cooperation against terrorism with senior Israeli officials. | |
18 | 45 | 15-Apr-1996 | 16-Apr-1996 | South Korea | Cheju Island | Met with President Kim Young-sam. Proposed four-nation peace talks. |
46 | 16-Apr-1996 | 18-Apr-1996 | Japan | Tokyo | State Visit. Issued joint statement on U.S.-Japanese security relations. Addressed the Diet and U.S. Navy personnel. | |
47 | 18-Apr-1996 | 21-Apr-1996 | Russia | Saint Petersburg, Moscow | Attended the G-7 summit on nuclear safety. Summit Meeting with President Boris Yeltsin. | |
19 | 48 | 27-Jun-1996 | 29-Jun-1996 | France | Lyon, Pérouges, Paris | Attended the 22nd G7 summit. Met with Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin and UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali. |
20 | 49 | 19-Nov-1996 | 23-Nov-1996 | Australia | Sydney, Canberra, Port Douglas | State Visit. Addressed joint meeting of Parliament. Visited the Great Barrier Reef. |
50 | 24-Nov-1996 | 25-Nov-1996 | Philippines | Manila, Subic Bay | Attended the APEC Summit Meeting. | |
51 | 25-Nov-1996 | 26-Nov-1996 | Thailand | Bangkok | State Visit. | |
21 | 52 | 20-Mar-1997 | 21-Mar-1997 | Finland | Helsinki | Summit meeting with Russian President Boris Yeltsin. Also met with President Martti Ahtisaari. |
22 | 53 | 5-May-1997 | 7-May-1997 | Mexico | Mexico City, Tlaxcala | State Visit. Met with President Ernesto Zedillo. |
54 | 7-May-1997 | 9-May-1997 | Costa Rica | San José | Attended the Summit Meeting of Presidents of the Central American Republics. Met President José María Figueres and travelled to Braulio Carrillo National Park. | |
55 | 9-May-1997 | 11-May-1997 | Barbados | Bridgetown | Attended the U.S.-Caribbean Community summit meeting. Signed the Partnership for Prosperity and Security in the Caribbean pact. | |
23 | 56 | 26-May-1997 | 27-May-1997 | France | Paris | Attended the NATO Summit Meeting and the signing of the NATO-Russia Founding Act. |
57 | 27-May-1997 | 28-May-1997 | Netherlands | The Hague, Rotterdam | Attended the U.S.-EU Summit Meeting. Attended the 50th anniversary of the Marshall Plan. | |
58 | 28-May-1997 | 29-May-1997 | United Kingdom | London | Met with Prime Minister Tony Blair. Attended a Cabinet meeting. | |
24 | 59 | 4-Jul-1997 | 10-Jul-1997 | Spain | Palma de Majorca, Madrid, Granada | Vacationed with King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sophia. Attended the NATO Summit Meeting in Madrid. |
60 | 10-Jul-1997 | 11-Jul-1997 | Poland | Warsaw | Met with President Aleksander Kwaśniewski and former President Lech Wałęsa. | |
61 | 11-Jul-1997 | 11-Jul-1997 | Romania | Bucharest | Met with President Emil Constantinescu and Romanian political leaders. | |
62 | 11-Jul-1997 | 12-Jul-1997 | Denmark | Copenhagen | Met with Queen Queen Margrethe II and Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen. | |
25 | 63 | 12-Oct-1997 | 13-Oct-1997 | Venezuela | Caracas | Met with President Rafael Caldera. |
64 | 13-Oct-1997 | 15-Oct-1997 | Brazil | Brasília, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro | Met with President Fernando Henrique Cardoso. Delivered several public addresses. | |
65 | 15-Oct-1997 | 18-Oct-1997 | Argentina | Buenos Aires, San Carlos de Bariloche | Met with President Carlos Menem. Delivered several public addresses. | |
26 | 66 | 23-Nov-1997 | 25-Nov-1997 | Canada | Vancouver | Attended the APEC Summit Meeting. |
27 | 67 | 22-Dec-1997 | 22-Dec-1997 | Italy | Aviano Air Base | Stopped en route to and from Bosnia-Herzegovina. |
68 | 22-Dec-1997 | 22-Dec-1997 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Sarajevo, Tuzla | Met with the Bosnian Collective Presidency and Bosnian Serb President Biljana Plavšić. Visited U.S. military personnel. | |
28 | 69 | 23-Mar-1998 | 23-Mar-1998 | Ghana | Accra | Met with President Jerry Rawlings. Visited a Peace Corps project. |
70 | 23-Mar-1998 | 25-Mar-1998 | Uganda | Kampala, Kisowera, Mukono Town, Wanyange, Entebbe | Met with President Yoweri Museveni and the Presidents of Ethiopia, Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya and the Congo. | |
71 | 25-Mar-1998 | 25-Mar-1998 | Rwanda | Kigali | Met with President Pasteur Bizimungu. Delivered a public address. | |
72 | 25-Mar-1998 | 29-Mar-1998 | South Africa | Cape Town, Johannesburg | Met with President Nelson Mandela. Addressed joint session of Parliament. | |
73 | 29-Mar-1998 | 31-Mar-1998 | Botswana | Gaborone, Kasame | Met with President Quett Masire. Visited Chobe National Park. | |
74 | 31-Mar-1998 | 2-Apr-1998 | Senegal | Dakar, Thiès, Gorée Island | Met with President Abdou Diouf. Visited Senegalese peacekeeping troops. Delivered several public addresses. | |
29 | 75 | 16-Apr-1998 | 19-Apr-1998 | Chile | Santiago | State Visit. Attended the 2nd Summit of the Americas. |
30 | 76 | 12-May-1998 | 14-May-1998 | Germany | Berlin, Potsdam, Frankfurt, Eisenach | Met with Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Attended 50th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift. |
77 | 14-May-1998 | 18-May-1998 | United Kingdom | Birmingham, Weston-under-Lizard, London | Attended the 24th G8 summit and the U.S.-EU Summit Meeting. | |
78 | 18-May-1998 | 18-May-1998 | Switzerland | Geneva | Attended the WTO meeting commemorating the 50th anniversary of GATT. | |
31 | 79 | 24-Jun-1998 | 3-Jul-1998 | China | Xi'an, Beijing, Shanghai, Guilin, Hong Kong | State Visit. Met with President Jiang Zemin. Visited the Forbidden City and the Great Wall of China. Delivered a speech at Peking University. |
32 | 80 | 1-Sep-1998 | 3-Sep-1998 | Russia | Moscow | Summit Meeting with President Boris Yeltsin. |
81 | 3-Sep-1998 | 3-Sep-1998 | United Kingdom | Belfast, Armagh, Omagh | Met with Prime Minister Tony Blair and Northern Irish political leaders. Addressed the Northern Ireland Assembly. | |
82 | 3-Sep-1998 | 5-Sep-1998 | Ireland | Dublin, Adare, Limerick, Ballybunion | Met with Taoiseach Bertie Ahern. Delivered several public addresses and played golf. | |
33 | 83 | 19-Nov-1998 | 20-Nov-1998 | Japan | Tokyo | Met with Emperor Akihito and Prime Minister Keizō Obuchi. Addressed American Chamber of Commerce. |
84 | 20-Nov-1998 | 22-Nov-1998 | South Korea | Seoul, Osan | Met with President Kim Dae-jung. Addressed U.S. military personnel. | |
34 | 85 | 12-Dec-1998 | 15-Dec-1998 | Israel | Jerusalem, Masada | Met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and senior Israeli officials. |
86 | 14-Dec-1998 | 15-Dec-1998 | Palestinian National Authority | Gaza, Bethlehem, Erez | Addressed Palestine National Council. Attended a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Chairman Yasser Arafat at Erez. | |
35 | 87 | 8-Feb-1999 | 8-Feb-1999 | Jordan | Amman | Attended the funeral of King Hussein. |
36 | 88 | 14-Feb-1999 | 15-Feb-1999 | Mexico | Mérida | State Visit. Met with President Ernesto Zedillo. |
37 | 89 | 8-Mar-1999 | 8-Mar-1999 | Nicaragua | Managua, Posoltega, El Porvenir | Discussed reconstruction aid with President Arnoldo Aleman. |
90 | 8-Mar-1999 | 9-Mar-1999 | Honduras | Soto Cano Air Base, Tegucigalpa | Discussed reconstruction aid with President Carlos Roberto Flores. Addressed U.S. military personnel. | |
91 | 10-Mar-1999 | 10-Mar-1999 | El Salvador | San Salvador | Addressed Legislative Assembly. | |
92 | 10-Mar-1999 | 11-Mar-1999 | Guatemala | Guatemala City, Antigua | Attended the Central American Summit. | |
38 | 93 | 4-May-1999 | 4-May-1999 | Belgium | Brussels | Discussed the Kosovo conflict with NATO officials. |
94 | 4-May-1999 | 6-May-1999 | Germany | Frankfurt, Ramstein and Spangdahlem Air Bases, Bonn, Ingelheim am Rhein | Addressed U.S. military personnel. Met with Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder. Also met with Kosovo refugees. | |
39 | 95 | 16-Jun-1999 | 16-Jun-1999 | Switzerland | Geneva | Addressed ILO Conference. Met with President Ruth Dreifuss. |
96 | 16-Jun-1999 | 17-Jun-1999 | France | Paris | Discussed peacekeeping in Kosovo with President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Lionel Jospin. | |
97 | 17-Jun-1999 | 21-Jun-1999 | Germany | Cologne, Bonn | Attended the 25th G8 summit. | |
98 | 21-Jun-1999 | 22-Jun-1999 | Slovenia | Ljubljana | Met with President Milan Kučan, Prime Minister Janez Drnovšek and Montenegrin President Milo Đukanović. | |
99 | 22-Jun-1999 | 22-Jun-1999 | Macedonia | Skopje | Met with President Kiro Gligorov. Addressed Kosovar refugees and NATO military personnel. | |
100 | 22-Jun-1999 | 22-Jun-1999 | Italy | Aviano Air Base | Addressed U.S. military personnel. | |
40 | 101 | 25-Jul-1999 | 25-Jul-1999 | Morocco | Rabat | Attended the funeral of King Hassan II. Met with Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. |
41 | 102 | 29-Jul-1999 | 30-Jul-1999 | Italy | Aviano Air Base | Stopped en route to Sarajevo. |
103 | 30-Jul-1999 | 30-Jul-1999 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Sarajevo | Attended Stability Pact Leaders Conference. | |
42 | 104 | 11-Sep-1999 | 15-Sep-1999 | New Zealand | Auckland, Queenstown, Christchurch | Attended the APEC Summit Meeting. State Visit. |
43 | 105 | 7-Oct-1999 | 8-Oct-1999 | Canada | Ottawa, Mont-Tremblant | Met with Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and Quebec Premier Lucien Bouchard. Attended Federalism Conference at Mont Tremblant. Dedicated new Embassy building. |
44 | 106 | 1-Nov-1999 | 2-Nov-1999 | Norway | Oslo | State Visit. Attended commemorative ceremony for former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Discussed Chechnya crisis with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. |
45 | 107 | 15-Nov-1999 | 19-Nov-1999 | Turkey | Ankara, İzmit, Ephesus, Istanbul | State Visit. Attended Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Summit meeting in Istanbul. |
108 | 19-Nov-1999 | 20-Nov-1999 | Greece | Athens | State Visit. Met with Prime Minister Konstantinos Simitis. | |
109 | 20-Nov-1999 | 21-Nov-1999 | Italy | Florence | Attended conference on Progressive Governance for the 21st Century. | |
110 | 21-Nov-1999 | 23-Nov-1999 | Bulgaria | Sofia | Met with President Petar Stoyanov and Prime Minister Ivan Kostov. | |
111 | 23-Nov-1999 | 23-Nov-1999 | Serbia and Montenegro (Kosovo) | Pristina, Uroševac, Camp Bondsteel | Met with Kosovar Transitional Council. Addressed the Albanian community and U.S. military personnel. | |
46 | 112 | 29-Jan-2000 | 29-Jan-2000 | Switzerland | Davos | Addressed the World Economic Forum. |
47 | 113 | 18-Mar-2000 | 18-Mar-2000 | Italy | Aviano Air Base | Stopped en route to India. |
114 | 19-Mar-2000 | 25-Mar-2000 | India | New Delhi, Agra, Jaipur, Hyderabad, Mumbai | Met with President Kocheril Raman Narayanan. Signed Joint Statement on Energy and the Environment. Addressed the Indian Parliament. | |
115 | 20-Mar-2000 | 20-Mar-2000 | Bangladesh | Dhaka | Met with President Shahabuddin Ahmed and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. | |
116 | 25-Mar-2000 | 25-Mar-2000 | Pakistan | Islamabad | Met with President Muhammad Rafiq Tarar and General Pervez Musharraf. Delivered radio address. | |
117 | 25-Mar-2000 | 25-Mar-2000 | Oman | Muscat | Met with Sultan Qaboos bin Said en route from Pakistan to Switzerland. | |
118 | 25-Mar-2000 | 26-Mar-2000 | Switzerland | Geneva | Met with Syrian President Hafez al-Assad. | |
48 | 119 | 30-May-2000 | 1-Jun-2000 | Portugal | Lisbon | Attended the U.S.-EU Summit Meeting. Met with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. |
120 | 1-Jun-2000 | 3-Jun-2000 | Germany | Berlin, Aachen | Met with President Johannes Rau and Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder. Received Charlemagne Prize and attended a Third Way Conference. | |
121 | 3-Jun-2000 | 5-Jun-2000 | Russia | Moscow | Summit Meeting with President Vladimir Putin. Addressed the Duma. | |
122 | 5-Jun-2000 | 5-Jun-2000 | Ukraine | Kiev | Met with President Leonid Kuchma. | |
49 | 123 | 8-Jun-2000 | 8-Jun-2000 | Japan | Tokyo | Attended the funeral of former Prime Minister Keizō Obuchi. |
50 | 124 | 21-Jul-2000 | 23-Jul-2000 | Japan | Nago | Attended the 26th G8 summit. |
51 | 125 | 26-Aug-2000 | 28-Aug-2000 | Nigeria | Abuja, Ushafa | Met with President Olusegun Obasanjo. Addressed the National Assembly. |
126 | 28-Aug-2000 | 29-Aug-2000 | Tanzania | Arusha | Met with former South African President Nelson Mandela to promote a peace agreement for Burundi. Met with President Benjamin Mkapa. | |
127 | 29-Aug-2000 | 29-Aug-2000 | Egypt | Cairo | Briefed President Hosni Mubarak on the Middle East Peace Process. | |
128 | 30-Aug-2000 | 30-Aug-2000 | Colombia | Cartagena | Met with President Andrés Pastrana Arango. | |
52 | 129 | 16-Oct-2000 | 17-Oct-2000 | Egypt | Sharm el-Sheikh | Attended the Israeli-Palestinian Summit Meeting. |
53 | 130 | 14-Nov-2000 | 16-Nov-2000 | Brunei | Bandar Seri Begawan | Attended the APEC Summit Meeting. |
131 | 16-Nov-2000 | 19-Nov-2000 | Vietnam | Hanoi, Tien Chau, Ho Chi Minh City | Met with President Tran Duc Luong. Delivered several public addresses. | |
54 | 132 | 12-Dec-2000 | 12-Dec-2000 | Ireland | Dublin, Dundalk | Met with Taoiseach Bertie Ahern. Delivered several public addresses. |
133 | 12-Dec-2000 | 14-Dec-2000 | United Kingdom | Belfast, London, Coventry | Met with Prime Minister Tony Blair and Northern Irish political leaders in Belfast. Met with Queen Elizabeth II and delivered a speech at the University of Warwick. |
President George H. W. Bush
- President Bush began the frequent international travel pace that is the hallmark of the post–Cold War presidency. He went to Europe 11 times, Asia twice, and South America once, along with a number of shorter trips during his four years as president.
- He did not receive delivery of the Boeing 747s until almost halfway through his presidency, but his travel pace was high even when he was using the older planes. His trip in September 1990 to Helsinki was his first international trip aboard the new planes. His second involved a Thanksgiving meal with the troops. With the new planes, the president could function from the air with virtually the same efficiency that he had when in the White House.
T | # | Start | End | Country | Cities | Reason |
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1 | 1 | 10-Feb-1989 | 10-Feb-1989 | Canada | Ottawa | Met with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. |
2 | 2 | 23-Feb-1989 | 25-Feb-1989 | Japan | Tokyo | Attended the funeral of Emperor Hirohito. Met with Emperor Akihito of Japan, the Kings of Belgium, Jordan and Spain, the Presidents of Brazil, Egypt, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Israel, Italy, Nigeria, the Philippines, Portugal and Zaire, and the Prime Ministers of Japan, Pakistan, Singapore, Thailand and Turkey. |
3 | 25-Feb-1989 | 27-Feb-1989 | China | Beijing | Met with President Yang Shangkun and Premier Li Peng. Also met with Prince Sihanouk of Cambodia. | |
4 | 27-Feb-1989 | 27-Feb-1989 | South Korea | Seoul | Official Visit. Addressed the National Assembly. | |
3 | 5 | 26-May-1989 | 28-May-1989 | Italy | Rome, Nettuno | Met with President Francesco Cossiga and Prime Minister Ciriaco De Mita. |
6 | 27-May-1989 | 27-May-1989 | Vatican City | Vatican City | Audience with Pope John Paul II. | |
7 | 28-May-1989 | 30-May-1989 | Belgium | Brussels | Attended the NATO Summit Meeting. Present were the Heads of State and Government of Canada, Denmark, France, Federal Republic of Germany, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. | |
8 | 30-May-1989 | 31-May-1989 | West Germany | Bonn, Mainz | Met with Chancellor Helmut Kohl. | |
9 | 31-May-1989 | 2-Jun-1989 | United Kingdom | London | Met with Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. | |
4 | 10 | 9-Jul-1989 | 11-Jul-1989 | Poland | Warsaw, Gdańsk | Met with government and Solidarity leaders. Addressed the National Assembly. |
11 | 11-Jul-1989 | 13-Jul-1989 | Hungary | Budapest | Met with Hungarian officials. Delivered an address at Karl Marx University. | |
12 | 13-Jul-1989 | 17-Jul-1989 | France | Paris | Attended the 15th G7 summit. Also attended ceremonies for the Bicentennial of the French Revolution. Met with Ivorian President Felix Houphouet-Boigny. | |
13 | 17-Jul-1989 | 18-Jul-1989 | Netherlands | The Hague, Leiden | Met with Queen Beatrix and Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers. Delivered a public address. | |
5 | 14 | 27-Oct-1989 | 28-Oct-1989 | Costa Rica | San José | Attended the Hemispheric Summit Meeting. |
6 | 15 | 1-Dec-1989 | 3-Dec-1989 | Malta | Valletta, Marsaxlokk | Attended the Summit Meeting with Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. Also met with Maltese Prime Minister Eddie Fenech Adami. |
16 | 3-Dec-1989 | 4-Dec-1989 | Belgium | Brussels | Attended the NATO Summit Meeting and the U.S.-Soviet Summit Meeting. | |
7 | 17 | 16-Dec-1989 | 16-Dec-1989 | France | Saint Martin (French West Indies) | Informal meeting with President François Mitterrand. |
8 | 18 | 15-Feb-1990 | 15-Feb-1990 | Colombia | Cartagena | Attended the Summit Meeting on the control of illicit drug trafficking with the President Virgilio Barco Vargas, Bolivian President Jaime Paz Zamora and Peruvian President Alan García Pérez. |
9 | 19 | 10-Apr-1990 | 10-Apr-1990 | Canada | Toronto | Informal Meeting with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. |
10 | 20 | 13-Apr-1990 | 14-Apr-1990 | United Kingdom | Bermuda | Informal Meeting with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. |
11 | 21 | 5-Jul-1990 | 6-Jul-1990 | United Kingdom | London | Attended the NATO Summit Meeting. |
12 | 22 | 8-Sep-1990 | 9-Sep-1990 | Finland | Helsinki | Summit Meeting with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. Issued joint statement on the Persian Gulf crisis. Also met with President Mauno Koivisto. First trip with Boeing 747 |
13 | 23 | 17-Nov-1990 | 17-Nov-1990 | Czechoslovakia | Prague | Attended ceremonies commemorating the first anniversary of the "Velvet Revolution." Addressed the Federal Assembly. |
24 | 18-Nov-1990 | 18-Nov-1990 | Germany | Speyer, Ludwigshafen | Met with Chancellor Helmut Kohl. | |
25 | 18-Nov-1990 | 21-Nov-1990 | France | Paris | Attended the CSCE Summit Meeting and the signing of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe. | |
26 | 21-Nov-1990 | 22-Nov-1990 | Saudi Arabia | Jeddah, Dhahran | Met with King Fahd and the Amir of Kuwait. Addressed U.S. and British military personnel in eastern Saudi Arabia. | |
27 | 22-Nov-1990 | 23-Nov-1990 | Egypt | Cairo | Discussed the Persian Gulf crisis with President Hosni Mubarak. | |
28 | 23-Nov-1990 | 23-Nov-1990 | Switzerland | Geneva | Discussed the Persian Gulf crisis with Syrian President Hafez al-Assad. | |
14 | 29 | 26-Nov-1990 | 27-Nov-1990 | Mexico | Monterrey, Agualeguas | State Visit. |
15 | 30 | 3-Dec-1990 | 4-Dec-1990 | Brazil | Brasília | Met with President Fernando Collor de Mello. Addressed a Joint Session of the Brazilian Congress. |
31 | 4-Dec-1990 | 5-Dec-1990 | Uruguay | Montevideo | Met with President Luis Alberto Lacalle. Addressed a Joint Session of the Uruguayan Congress. | |
32 | 5-Dec-1990 | 6-Dec-1990 | Argentina | Buenos Aires | Met with President Carlos Menem. Addressed a Joint Session of the Argentinean Congress. | |
33 | 6-Dec-1990 | 7-Dec-1990 | Chile | Santiago | Met with President Patricio Aylwin. Addressed a Joint Session of the Chilean Congress. | |
34 | 7-Dec-1990 | 8-Dec-1990 | Venezuela | Caracas | Met with President Carlos Andres Perez. | |
16 | 35 | 13-Mar-1991 | 14-Mar-1991 | Canada | Ottawa | Met with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. Signed an Air Quality Agreement. |
17 | 36 | 14-Mar-1991 | 14-Mar-1991 | France (West Indies) | Martinique | Discussed the Middle East peace process with President François Mitterrand. |
37 | 14-Mar-1991 | 16-Mar-1991 | United Kingdom | Bermuda | Discussed the Middle East peace process with Prime Minister John Major. | |
18 | 38 | 9-Jul-1991 | 9-Jul-1991 | Canada | Toronto | Informal Meeting with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. |
19 | 39 | 14-Jul-1991 | 14-Jul-1991 | France | Rambouillet | Discussed further sanctions against Iraq with President François Mitterrand. |
40 | 14-Jul-1991 | 18-Jul-1991 | United Kingdom | London | Attended the 17th G7 summit. Also met with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. | |
41 | 18-Jul-1991 | 20-Jul-1991 | Greece | Athens, Souda Bay | Met with Prime Minister Konstantinos Mitsotakis. Addressed U.S. and Greek military personnel. | |
42 | 20-Jul-1991 | 22-Jul-1991 | Turkey | Ankara, Istanbul | Met with President Turgut Ozal. | |
20 | 43 | 29-Jul-1991 | 1-Aug-1991 | Soviet Union | Moscow, Kiev | Attended the U.S.-Soviet Summit Meeting. Signed Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I). Addressed the Ukrainian Parliament. |
21 | 44 | 29-Oct-1991 | 30-Oct-1991 | Spain | Madrid | Met with Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez Marquez and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. Attended the opening session of the Middle East Peace Conference. |
22 | 45 | 6-Nov-1991 | 8-Nov-1991 | Italy | Rome | Attended the NATO Summit Meeting. |
46 | 8-Nov-1991 | 8-Nov-1991 | Vatican City | Vatican City | Audience with Pope John Paul II. | |
47 | 8-Nov-1991 | 9-Nov-1991 | Netherlands | The Hague | Attended the European Community Summit Meeting. | |
23 | 48 | 31-Dec-1991 | 3-Jan-1992 | Australia | Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne | Met with Prime Minister Paul Keating and senior Australian officials. Addressed the Australian Parliament. |
49 | 3-Jan-1992 | 5-Jan-1992 | Singapore | Singapore | Met with President Wee Kim Wee and Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. Attended a meeting of the ASEAN Business Council. | |
50 | 5-Jan-1992 | 7-Jan-1992 | South Korea | Seoul | Met with President Roh Tae-woo and senior Korean officials. Signed a science and technology agreement. Addressed the Korean National Assembly. Visited U.S. military personnel. | |
51 | 7-Jan-1992 | 10-Jan-1992 | Japan | Kyoto, Kashihara, Tokyo | Met with Emperor Akihito, Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa and senior Japanese officials. The George H. W. Bush vomiting incident occurred during this visit. | |
24 | 52 | 11-Jun-1992 | 11-Jun-1992 | Panama | Panama City | Met with President Guillermo Endara. Delivered public addresses. |
53 | 12-Jun-1992 | 13-Jun-1992 | Brazil | Rio de Janeiro | Attended the Earth Summit Meeting. | |
25 | 54 | 5-Jul-1992 | 5-Jul-1992 | Poland | Warsaw | Met with President Lech Walesa. Attended a memorial service for former Prime Minister Ignacy Jan Paderewski. |
55 | 5-Jul-1992 | 8-Jul-1992 | Germany | Munich | Attended the 18th G7 summit. Also met with Russian President Boris Yeltsin. | |
56 | 8-Jul-1992 | 10-Jul-1992 | Finland | Helsinki | Attended the CSCE Summit Meeting. | |
26 | 57 | 31-Dec-1992 | 31-Dec-1992 | Saudi Arabia | Riyadh | Met with King Fahd. |
58 | 31-Dec-1992 | 2-Jan-1993 | Somalia | Mogadishu, Baidoa, Baledogle | Visited international relief workers and U.S. military personnel. | |
59 | 2-Jan-1993 | 3-Jan-1993 | Russia | Moscow | Signed the START II Treaty. | |
60 | 3-Jan-1993 | 3-Jan-1993 | France | Paris | Discussed the Bosnian crisis with President François Mitterrand. |
President Ronald Reagan
President Reagan made seven trips to continental Europe, three to Asia and one to South America during his presidency. He is perhaps best remembered for his speeches at the 40th anniversary of the Normandy landings, for his impassioned speech at the Berlin Wall, his summit meetings with Mikhail Gorbachev, and riding horses with the Queen at Windsor Park.
Reagan's presidency would be transitional in international travel. During his term in office, he ordered the two special mission Boeing 747s that would become the new presidential transport to replace the aging Boeing 707s. Heavy lift aircraft could bring security, limousines, and helicopters. After that time, the president had access to inflight bedrooms and showers, boardrooms, and communication equipment and with refueling virtually unlimited range. Summit meetings would proliferate, and international travel would become more of a constant expectation of the presidency.
T | # | Start | End | Country | Cities | Reason |
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1 | 1 | 5-Jan-1981 | 5-Jan-1981 | Mexico | Cuidad Juarez | Met with President José López Portillo. [Visit made as President-elect.] |
2 | 2 | 10-Mar-1981 | 11-Mar-1981 | Canada | Ottawa | State Visit. Met with Governor General Edward Schreyer and Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and gave a joint address to parliament. |
3 | 3 | 19-Jul-1981 | 21-Jul-1981 | Canada | Ottawa, Montebello | Attended the 7th G7 summit. |
4 | 4 | 21-Oct-1981 | 24-Oct-1981 | Mexico | Cancun | Attended the North–South Summit on International Cooperation and Development. Met with the Heads of State and Government of Algeria, Bangladesh, Canada, China, France, Guyana, India, Japan, Mexico, Nigeria, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Tanzania, the United Kingdom, Venezuela and Yugoslavia. |
5 | 5 | 7-Apr-1982 | 8-Apr-1982 | Jamaica | Kingston | Official Visit. Met with Prime Minister Edward Seaga. |
6 | 8-Apr-1982 | 11-Apr-1982 | Barbados | Bridgetown | Official Visit. Met with the Prime Ministers of Barbados, Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda, St. Christopher and Nevis, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. | |
6 | 7 | 2-Jun-1982 | 7-Jun-1982 | France | Paris | State Visit. Met with President François Mitterrand and Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy. |
8 | 5-Jun-1982 | 6-Jun-1982 | France | Versailles | Attended the 8th G7 summit. | |
9 | 7-Jun-1982 | 7-Jun-1982 | Italy | Rome | State Visit. Met with President Sandro Pertini and Premier Giovanni Spadolini. | |
10 | 7-Jun-1982 | 7-Jun-1982 | Vatican City | Vatican City | Audience with Pope John Paul II. | |
11 | 7-Jun-1982 | 9-Jun-1982 | United Kingdom | London, Windsor Castle | State Visit. Met with Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Addressed Parliament. | |
12 | 9-Jun-1982 | 11-Jun-1982 | West Germany | Bonn | State Visit. Met with Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and President Karl Carstens. Addressed the Bundestag and attended a meeting of the North Atlantic Council. | |
13 | 11-Jun-1982 | 11-Jun-1982 | West Germany | West Berlin | Met with Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. | |
7 | 14 | 8-Oct-1982 | 8-Oct-1982 | Mexico | Tijuana | Exchange of visits with President-elect Miguel de la Madrid. |
8 | 15 | 30-Nov-1982 | 3-Dec-1982 | Brazil | Brasília, São Paulo | Official Working Visit. Met with President João Figueiredo. |
16 | 3-Dec-1982 | 3-Dec-1982 | Colombia | Bogota | Official Working Visit. Met with President Belisario Betancur. | |
17 | 3-Dec-1982 | 4-Dec-1982 | Costa Rica | San José | Official Working Visit. Met with President Luis Alberto Monge and President Álvaro Magaña of El Salvador. | |
18 | 4-Dec-1982 | 4-Dec-1982 | Honduras | San Pedro Sula | Official Working Visit. Met with President Roberto Suazo Córdova and with Guatemalan President Efraín Ríos Montt. | |
9 | 19 | 14-Aug-1983 | 14-Aug-1983 | Mexico | La Paz (Baja California) | Informal Meeting with President Miguel de la Madrid. |
10 | 20 | 9-Nov-1983 | 12-Nov-1983 | Japan | Tokyo | State Visit. Met with Emperor Hirohito and Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone and addressed the Diet. |
21 | 12-Nov-1983 | 14-Nov-1983 | South Korea | Seoul, Demilitarized Zone | State Visit. Met with President Chun Doo-hwan. Addressed the National Assembly and visited U.S. troops. | |
11 | 22 | 26-Apr-1984 | 1-May-1984 | China | Beijing, Xian, Shanghai | State Visit. Met with President Li Xiannian and Premier Zhao Ziyang. |
12 | 23 | 1-Jun-1984 | 4-Jun-1984 | Ireland | Shannon, Galway, Ballyporeen, Dublin | Met with President Patrick Hillery and Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald. Visited ancestral home. Addressed Parliament. |
24 | 4-Jun-1984 | 10-Jun-1984 | United Kingdom | London | Attended the 10th G7 summit. | |
25 | 6-Jun-1984 | 6-Jun-1984 | France | Normandy | Attended commemorative ceremonies of the 40th anniversary of the Allied landing in Normandy. Also present were Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, King Olav V of Norway, King Baudouin I of Belgium, French President François Mitterrand, Queen Elizabeth II and Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg. | |
13 | 26 | 17-Mar-1985 | 18-Mar-1985 | Canada | Quebec | Met with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. |
14 | 27 | 30-Apr-1985 | 4-May-1985 | West Germany | Bonn | Attended the 11th G7 summit. |
28 | 5-May-1985 | 6-May-1985 | West Germany | Bonn, Bergen-Belsen, Bitburg, Hambach Castle | State Visit. Attended ceremonies commemorating 40th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe. | |
29 | 6-May-1985 | 4-May-1985 | Spain | Madrid | State Visit. Met with King Juan Carlos I and President Felipe González. | |
30 | 8-May-1985 | 8-May-1985 | France | Strasbourg | Addressed the European Parliament. | |
31 | 8-May-1985 | 10-May-1985 | Portugal | Lisbon | State Visit. Met with President António Ramalho Eanes and Prime Minister Mário Soares. Addressed the National Assembly. | |
15 | 32 | 16-Nov-1985 | 21-Nov-1985 | Switzerland | Geneva | Attended the Summit Meeting with Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. Met also with Swiss President Kurt Furgler. |
33 | 21-Nov-1985 | 21-Nov-1985 | Belgium | Brussels | Attended the NATO Summit Meeting. Present were the Heads of State and Government of Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Luxembourg, Portugal, Turkey and the United Kingdom. | |
16 | 34 | 3-Jan-1986 | 3-Jan-1986 | Mexico | Mexicali | Informal Meeting with President Miguel de la Madrid. |
17 | 35 | 20-Feb-1986 | 20-Feb-1986 | Grenada | St. George's | Met with Governor General Paul Scoon and Prime Minister Herbert Blaize, and with the Prime Ministers of Barbados, Dominica, Jamaica, St. Lucia, St. Christopher and Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Antigua and Barbuda, and Trinidad and Tobago. Dedicated a memorial to U.S. servicemen. |
18 | 36 | 29-Apr-1986 | 2-May-1986 | Indonesia | Bali | Attended the ASEAN Ministerial Meeting. Met with Indonesian President Suharto and Philippine Vice President Salvador Laurel. |
37 | 2-May-1986 | 7-May-1986 | Japan | Tokyo | Attended the 12th G7 summit. | |
19 | 38 | 9-Oct-1986 | 12-Oct-1986 | Iceland | Reykjavík | Pre-Summit Meeting with Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. Met with President Vigdís Finnbogadóttir on October 10. |
20 | 39 | 4-Apr-1987 | 5-Apr-1987 | Canada | Ottawa | State Visit. Met with Governor General Jeanne Sauvé and Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and gave joint address to parliament. |
21 | 40 | 3-Jun-1987 | 11-Jun-1987 | Italy | Venice, Rome | Attended the 13th G7 summit. Met with President Francesco Cossiga and Prime Minister Amintore Fanfani in Rome. |
41 | 6-Jun-1987 | 6-Jun-1987 | Vatican City | Vatican City | Audience with Pope John Paul II. | |
42 | 11-Jun-1987 | 12-Jun-1987 | West Germany | West Berlin | Attended the 750th Anniversary celebrations. Met with Chancellor Helmut Kohl. | |
43 | 12-Jun-1987 | 12-Jun-1987 | West Germany | Bonn | Met with Chancellor Helmut Kohl. | |
22 | 44 | 13-Feb-1988 | 13-Feb-1988 | Mexico | Mazatlan | Informal Meeting with President Miguel de la Madrid. Signed textile agreement. |
23 | 45 | 1-Mar-1988 | 3-Mar-1988 | Belgium | Brussels | Attended the NATO Summit Meeting. Present were the Heads of State and Government of Canada, Denmark, France, Federal Republic of Germany, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Turkey and the United Kingdom. |
24 | 46 | 25-May-1988 | 29-May-1988 | Finland | Helsinki | Met with President Mauno Koivisto and Prime Minister Harri Holkeri. Rested en route to U.S.-Soviet Summit. |
47 | 29-May-1988 | 2-Jun-1988 | Soviet Union | Moscow | Summit Meeting with General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. Exchanged ratifications of the INF Treaty. | |
48 | 2-Jun-1988 | 3-Jun-1988 | United Kingdom | London | Met with Queen Elizabeth II, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita. | |
25 | 49 | 19-Jun-1988 | 21-Jun-1988 | Canada | Toronto | Attended the 14th G7 summit. |
President Jimmy Carter
- President Carter repeated FDR's 1943 Visit to Brazil. He was also the first president to make a state visit to Sub-Saharan Africa when he went to Nigeria in 1978 directly from Brazil.
- President Carter's travel included five trips to Europe and one trip to Asia.
- President Carter's best known travel is his trips to the Middle East to broker his peace negotiations.
- The G-6 (later 7 and 8) summit meetings started in the presidency of President Ford continued under President Carter. Four of his overseas visits were for those summit meetings.
- President Carter was invited to Panama City to sign protocol confirming exchange of documents ratifying the Panama Canal treaties.
- President Carter's meeting with Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in Iran on New Year's Day 1978, was only 13 months before the Shah was overthrown on February 11, 1979.
T | # | Start | End | Country | Cities | Reason |
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1 | 1 | 5-May-1977 | 11-May-1977 | United Kingdom | London, Newcastle | Attended the 3rd G7 summit. Also met with the Prime Ministers of Greece, Belgium, Turkey, Norway, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, and with the President of Portugal. Addressed NATO Ministers meeting. |
2 | 9-May-1977 | 9-May-1977 | Switzerland | Geneva | Official Visit. Met with President Kurt Furgler. Also met with Syrian President Hafez al-Assad. | |
2 | 3 | 29-Dec-1977 | 31-Dec-1977 | Poland | Warsaw | Official Visit. Met with First Secretary Edward Gierek. |
4 | 31-Dec-1977 | 1-Jan-1978 | Iran | Tehran | Official Visit. Met with Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and King Hussein of Jordan. | |
5 | 1-Jan-1978 | 3-Jan-1978 | India | New Delhi, Daulatpur Nasirabad[8] | Met with President Neelam Sanjiva Reddy and Prime Minister Morarji Desai. Addressed Parliament of India. | |
6 | 3-Jan-1978 | 4-Jan-1978 | Saudi Arabia | Riyadh | Met with King Khalid and Crown Prince Fahd. | |
7 | 4-Jan-1978 | 4-Jan-1978 | Egypt | Aswan | Met with President Anwar Sadat and German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. | |
8 | 4-Jan-1978 | 6-Jan-1978 | France | Paris, Normandy, Bayeux, Versailles | Met with President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and Prime Minister Raymond Barre. | |
9 | 6-Jan-1978 | 6-Jan-1978 | Belgium | Brussels | Met with King Baudouin and Prime Minister Leo Tindemans. Attended meetings of the Commission of the European Communities and the North Atlantic Council. | |
3 | 10 | 28-Mar-1978 | 29-Mar-1978 | Venezuela | Caracas | Met with President Carlos Andrés Pérez. Addressed Congress and signed maritime boundary agreement. |
11 | 29-Mar-1978 | 31-Mar-1978 | Brazil | Brasília, Rio de Janeiro | Official Visit. Met with President Ernesto Geisel and addressed National Congress of Brazil. | |
12 | 31-Mar-1978 | 3-Apr-1978 | Nigeria | Lagos | Met with President Olusegun Obasanjo. First State Visit of a U.S. President to sub-Saharan Africa. | |
13 | 3-Apr-1978 | 3-Apr-1978 | Liberia | Monrovia | Met with President William R. Tolbert, Jr.. | |
4 | 14 | 16-Jun-1978 | 17-Jun-1978 | Panama | Panama City | Invited by President Demetrio B. Lakas and General Omar Torrijos to sign protocol confirming exchange of documents ratifying Panama Canal treaties. Also met informally with Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez, Colombian President Alfonso López Michelsen, Mexican President José López Portillo, Costa Rican Rodrigo Carazo Odio and Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley of Jamaica. |
5 | 15 | 14-Jul-1978 | 15-Jul-1978 | West Germany | Bonn, Wiesbaden-Erbenheim, Frankfurt | State Visit. Met with President Walter Scheel and Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Addressed U.S. and German military personnel. |
16 | 15-Jul-1978 | 15-Jul-1978 | West Germany | West Berlin | Spoke at the Berlin Airlift Memorial. | |
17 | 16-Jul-1978 | 17-Jul-1978 | West Germany | Bonn | Attended the 4th G7 summit. | |
6 | 18 | 4-Jan-1979 | 9-Jan-1979 | France | Guadeloupe | Met informally with President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and British Prime Minister James Callaghan. |
7 | 19 | 14-Feb-1979 | 16-Feb-1979 | Mexico | Mexico City | State Visit. Met with President José López Portillo. Addressed the Congress of Mexico. |
8 | 20 | 7-Mar-1979 | 10-Mar-1979 | Egypt | Cairo, Alexandria, Giza | State Visit. Met with President Anwar Sadat. Addressed People's Assembly of Egypt. |
21 | 10-Mar-1979 | 13-Mar-1979 | Israel | Tel Aviv, Jerusalem | State Visit. Met with President Yitzhak Navon and Prime Minister Menachem Begin. Addressed the Knesset. | |
22 | 13-Mar-1979 | 13-Mar-1979 | Egypt | Cairo | Met with President Anwar Sadat. | |
9 | 23 | 14-Jun-1979 | 18-Jun-1979 | Austria | Vienna | State Visit. Met with President Rudolf Kirchschläger and Chancellor Bruno Kreisky. Met with Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev to sign SALT II Treaty. |
10 | 24 | 25-Jun-1979 | 29-Jun-1979 | Japan | Tokyo, Shimoda | Attended the 5th G7 summit. State visit. Met with Emperor Hirohito and Prime Minister Masayoshi Ōhira. |
25 | 29-Jun-1979 | 1-Jul-1979 | South Korea | Seoul | State Visit. Met with President Park Chung-hee and Prime Minister Choi Kyu-hah. | |
11 | 26 | 19-Jun-1980 | 24-Jun-1980 | Italy | Rome, Venice | Attended the 6th G7 summit. State Visit. Met with President Sandro Pertini. |
27 | 21-Jun-1980 | 21-Jun-1980 | Vatican City | Vatican City | Audience with Pope John Paul II. | |
28 | 24-Jun-1980 | 25-Jun-1980 | Yugoslavia | Belgrade | Official Visit. Met with President Cvijetin Mijatović. | |
29 | 25-Jun-1980 | 26-Jun-1980 | Spain | Madrid | Official Visit. Met with King Juan Carlos I and Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez. | |
30 | 26-Jun-1980 | 26-Jun-1980 | Portugal | Lisbon | Official Visit. Met with President António Ramalho Eanes and Prime Minister Francisco de Sá Carneiro. | |
12 | 31 | 9-Jul-1980 | 10-Jul-1980 | Japan | Tokyo | Official Visit. Attended memorial services for former Prime Minister Masayoshi Ōhira. Met with Emperor Hirohito, Bangla President Ziaur Rahman, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, Thai Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda and Chinese Premier Hua Guofeng. |
President Gerald Ford
President Ford made the first visit of a sitting president to Japan, and followed it with a trip to the Republic of Korea and the Soviet Union (to attend the Vladivostok Summit). He traveled internationally only his first year in office. He stayed within the US for all of 1976.
T | # | Start | End | Country | Cities | Reason |
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1 | 1 | 21-Oct-1974 | 21-Oct-1974 | Mexico | Nogales, Magdalena de Kino | Met with President Luis Echeverría and laid a wreath at the tomb of Padre Eusebio Kino. |
2 | 2 | 19-Nov-1974 | 22-Nov-1974 | Japan | Tokyo, Kyoto | State Visit. Met with Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka. |
3 | 22-Nov-1974 | 23-Nov-1974 | South Korea | Seoul | Met with President Park Chung-hee. | |
14 | 23-Nov-1974 | 24-Nov-1974 | Soviet Union | Vladivostok | Met with General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev and discussed limitations of strategic arms. | |
3 | 5 | 14-Dec-1974 | 16-Dec-1974 | France | Martinique | Met with President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. |
6 | 28-May-1975 | 31-May-1975 | Belgium | Brussels | Attended the NATO Summit Meeting. Addressed the North Atlantic Council and met separately with NATO Heads of State and Government. | |
7 | 31-May-1975 | 1-Jun-1975 | Spain | Madrid | Met with Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Received keys to city from Mayor of Madrid. | |
4 | 8 | 1-Jun-1975 | 3-Jun-1975 | Austria | Salzburg | Met with Chancellor Bruno Kreisky and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. |
9 | 3-Jun-1975 | 3-Jun-1975 | Italy | Rome | Met with President Giovanni Leone and Prime Minister Aldo Moro. | |
10 | 3-Jun-1975 | 3-Jun-1975 | Vatican City | Vatican City | Audience with Pope Paul VI. | |
5 | 11 | 26-Jul-1975 | 28-Jul-1975 | West Germany | Bonn, Linz | Met with President Walter Scheel and Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. |
12 | 28-Jul-1975 | 29-Jul-1975 | Poland | Warsaw, Kraków | Official Visit. Met with First Secretary Edward Gierek. | |
13 | 29-Jul-1975 | 2-Aug-1975 | Finland | Helsinki | Attended opening session of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Met with the Heads of State and Government of Finland, Great Britain, Turkey, West Germany, France, Italy and Spain. Also met with Soviet General Secretary Brezhnev. Signed the Final Act of the Conference. | |
14 | 2-Aug-1975 | 3-Aug-1975 | Romania | Bucharest, Sinaia | Official Visit. Met with President Nicolae Ceaușescu. | |
15 | 3-Aug-1975 | 4-Aug-1975 | Yugoslavia | Belgrade | Official Visit. Met with President Josip Broz Tito and Prime Minister Džemal Bijedić. | |
6 | 16 | 15-Nov-1975 | 17-Nov-1975 | France | Rambouillet | Attended the 1st G6 summit. |
7 | 17 | 1-Dec-1975 | 5-Dec-1975 | China | Peking | Official Visit. Met with Party Chairman Mao Zedong and Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping. |
18 | 5-Dec-1975 | 6-Dec-1975 | Indonesia | Jakarta | Official Visit. Met with President Suharto. | |
19 | 6-Dec-1975 | 7-Dec-1975 | Philippines | Manila | Official Visit. Met with President Ferdinand Marcos. |
President Richard Nixon
- President Nixon made the unusual move of going on a week-long trip to Europe only five weeks after his inauguration. His most famous voyage was to the People's Republic of China, the first by an incumbent President of the United States; he took groundbreaking trips to other Communist-ruled nations as well including Romania (1969), Yugoslavia (1970), and the Soviet Union (1972 and 1974).
- On July 25, 1969, President Nixon announced his Nixon Doctrine on the island of Guam, in which he said henceforth expected its allies to take care of their own military defense. The next day he proceeded on his round the world tour which included five state visits, an unannounced stop in Vietnam, and stops in Romania, and the United Kingdom.
- In 1972 President Nixon received delivery of the second custom outfitted jet to be used as Air Force One, VC-137C SAM 27000.
T | # | Start | End | Country | Cities | Reason |
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1 | 1 | 23-Feb-1969 | 24-Feb-1969 | Belgium | Brussels | Attended the 23rd meeting of North Atlantic Council. Met with King Baudouin I. |
2 | 24-Feb-1969 | 26-Feb-1969 | United Kingdom | London | Informal Visit. Held conversations with Prime Minister Harold Wilson. Received by Queen Elizabeth II. | |
3 | 26-Feb-1969 | 27-Feb-1969 | West Germany | Cologne, Bonn | Addressed the Bundestag. | |
4 | 27-Feb-1969 | 27-Feb-1969 | West Germany | West Berlin | Delivered several public addresses. | |
5 | 27-Feb-1969 | 28-Feb-1969 | Italy | Rome | Met with President Giuseppe Saragat and Prime Minister Mariano Rumor and other officials. | |
6 | 28-Feb-1969 | 2-Mar-1969 | France | Paris | Met with President Charles de Gaulle. | |
7 | 2-Mar-1969 | 2-Mar-1969 | Vatican City | Vatican City | Audience with Pope Paul VI. | |
2 | 8 | 26-Jul-1969 | 27-Jul-1969 | Philippines | Manila | State Visit. Met with President Ferdinand Marcos. |
9 | 27-Jul-1969 | 28-Jul-1969 | Indonesia | Jakarta | State Visit. Met with President Suharto. | |
10 | 28-Jul-1969 | 30-Jul-1969 | Thailand | Bangkok | State Visit. Met with King Bhumibol Adulyadej. | |
11 | 30-Jul-1969 | 30-Jul-1969 | South Vietnam | Saigon, Di An | Met with President Nguyen Van Thieu. Visited U.S. military personnel. | |
12 | 31-Jul-1969 | 1-Aug-1969 | India | New Delhi | State Visit. Met with Acting President Mohammad Hidayatullah. | |
13 | 1-Aug-1969 | 2-Aug-1969 | Pakistan | Lahore | State Visit. Met with President Yahya Khan. | |
14 | 2-Aug-1969 | 3-Aug-1969 | Romania | Bucharest | Official Visit. Met with President Nicolae Ceaușescu. | |
15 | 3-Aug-1969 | 3-Aug-1969 | United Kingdom | Mildenhall Air Force Base | Informal Meeting with Prime Minister Harold Wilson. | |
3 | 16 | 8-Sep-1969 | 8-Sep-1969 | Mexico | Ciudad Acuna | Dedicated Amistad Dam. |
4 | 17 | 20-Aug-1970 | 21-Aug-1970 | Mexico | Puerto Vallarta | Official Visit. Met with President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz. |
5 | 18 | 27-Sep-1970 | 30-Sep-1970 | Italy | Rome, Naples | Official Visit. Met with President Giuseppe Saragat. Visited NATO Southern Command. |
19 | 28-Sep-1970 | 28-Sep-1970 | Vatican City | Vatican City | Audience with Pope Paul VI. | |
20 | 30-Sep-1970 | 2-Oct-1970 | Yugoslavia | Belgrade, Zagreb | State Visit. Met with President Josip Broz Tito. | |
21 | 2-Oct-1970 | 3-Oct-1970 | Spain | Madrid | State Visit. Met with Generalissimo Francisco Franco. | |
22 | 3-Oct-1970 | 3-Oct-1970 | United Kingdom | Chequers | Met informally with Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Edward Heath. | |
23 | 3-Oct-1970 | 5-Oct-1970 | Ireland | Limerick, Timahoe, Dublin | State Visit. Met with Taoiseach Jack Lynch. | |
6 | 24 | 12-Nov-1970 | 12-Nov-1970 | France | Paris | Attended the memorial services for former President Charles de Gaulle. |
7 | 25 | 13-Dec-1971 | 14-Dec-1971 | Portugal | Terceira Island | Discussed international monetary problems with French President Georges Pompidou and Portuguese Prime Minister Marcelo Caetano. |
8 | 26 | 20-Dec-1971 | 21-Dec-1971 | United Kingdom | Bermuda | Met with Prime Minister Edward Heath. |
9 | 27 | 21-Feb-1972 | 28-Feb-1972 | China | Shanghai, Peking, Hangchow | State Visit. Met with Party Chairman Mao Zedong and Premier Zhou Enlai. |
10 | 28 | 13-Apr-1972 | 15-Apr-1972 | Canada | Ottawa | State Visit. Met with Governor General Roland Michener and Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. joint address to parliament. |
11 | 29 | 20-May-1972 | 22-May-1972 | Austria | Salzburg | Informal Visit. Met with Chancellor Bruno Kreisky. |
30 | 22-May-1972 | 30-May-1972 | Soviet Union | Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev | State Visit. Met with Premier Alexei Kosygin and General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev. Signed the SALT I and ABM Treaties. | |
31 | 30-May-1972 | 31-May-1972 | Iran | Tehran | Official Visit. Met with Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. | |
32 | 31-May-1972 | 1-Jun-1972 | Poland | Warsaw | Official Visit. Met with First Secretary Edward Gierek. | |
12 | 33 | 31-May-1973 | 1-Jun-1973 | Iceland | Reykjavík | Met with President Kristján Eldjárn and Prime Minister Ólafur Jóhannesson and French President Georges Pompidou. |
13 | 34 | 5-Apr-1974 | 7-Apr-1974 | France | Paris | Attended the memorial services for former President Georges Pompidou. Met afterward with interim President Alain Poher, Italian President Giovanni Leone, British Prime Minister Harold Wilson, West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, Danish Prime Minister Poul Hartling, Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny and Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka. |
14 | 35 | 10-Jun-1974 | 12-Jun-1974 | Austria | Salzburg | Met with Chancellor Bruno Kreisky. |
36 | 12-Jun-1974 | 14-Jun-1974 | Egypt | Cairo, Alexandria | Met with President Anwar Sadat. | |
37 | 14-Jun-1974 | 15-Jun-1974 | Saudi Arabia | Jedda | Met with King Faisal. | |
38 | 15-Jun-1974 | 16-Jun-1974 | Syria | Damascus | Met with President Hafez al-Assad. | |
39 | 16-Jun-1974 | 17-Jun-1974 | Israel | Tel Aviv, Jerusalem | Met with President Ephraim Katzir and Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. | |
40 | 17-Jun-1974 | 18-Jun-1974 | Jordan | Amman | State Visit. Met with King Hussein. | |
41 | 18-Jun-1974 | 19-Jun-1974 | Portugal | Lajes Field (The Azores) | Met with President António de Spínola. | |
15 | 42 | 25-Jun-1974 | 26-Jun-1974 | Belgium | Brussels | Attended the North Atlantic Council Meeting. Met separately with King Baudouin I and Queen Fabiola, Prime Minister Leo Tindemans, and with German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Italian Prime Minister Mariano Rumor. |
43 | 27-Jun-1974 | 3-Jul-1974 | Soviet Union | Moscow, Minsk, Oreanda | Official Visit. Met with General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, President Nikolai Podgorny and Premier Alexei Kosygin. Signing of the Threshold Test Ban Treaty (TTBT). |
President Lyndon Johnson
President Johnson ended up flying 523,000 miles aboard Air Force One during his term as president. In his first two years in office he made only one international trip, which was to Canada. He did all of his other international travel from April 1966 to July 1968, and he left the North American continent only four times.
During his full term, LBJ eschewed Europe in favor of Southeast Asia and Latin America. He is the only president serving during Queen Elizabeth II's reign to have never met her. LBJ went to Germany once briefly for the funeral of Konrad Adenauer.
One of the most unusual international trips in presidential history occurred before Christmas in 1967. The President began the trip by going to the memorial service for Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt, who had disappeared in a swimming accident and was presumed drowned. The White House did not reveal in advance to the press that the President would make the first round-the-world presidential trip. The exhausting trip was 26,959 miles completed in only 112.5 hours (4.7 days). The trip crossed the equator twice, stopped in Travis Air Force Base, Calif., then Honolulu, Pago Pago, Canberra, Melbourne, Vietnam, Karachi and Rome.
T | # | Start | End | Country | Cities | Reason |
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1 | 1 | 16-Sep-1964 | 16-Sep-1964 | Canada | Vancouver | Informal Visit. Met with Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson in ceremonies related to the Columbia River Treaty. |
2 | 2 | 14-Apr-1966 | 15-Apr-1966 | Mexico | Mexico, D.F. | Informal Visit. Met with President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz. |
3 | 3 | 21-Aug-1966 | 22-Aug-1966 | Canada | Campobello Island, Chamcook | Laid cornerstone at Roosevelt Campobello International Park. Conferred informally with Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson. |
4 | 4 | 19-Oct-1966 | 20-Oct-1966 | New Zealand | Wellington | State Visit. Met with Prime Minister Keith Holyoake. |
5 | 20-Oct-1966 | 23-Oct-1966 | Australia | Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Townsville | State Visit. Met with Governor-General Richard Casey, Baron Casey and Prime Minister Harold Holt. | |
6 | 24-Oct-1966 | 26-Oct-1966 | Philippines | Manila, Los Banos, Corregidor | Attended the summit conference with the Heads of State and Government of Australia, Korea, New Zealand, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. | |
7 | 26-Oct-1966 | 26-Oct-1966 | South Vietnam | Cam Ranh Bay | Visited U.S. military personnel. | |
8 | 27-Oct-1966 | 30-Oct-1966 | Thailand | Bangkok | State Visit. Met with King Bhumibol Adulyadej. | |
9 | 30-Oct-1966 | 31-Oct-1966 | Malaysia | Kuala Lumpur | State Visit. Met with Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman | |
10 | 31-Oct-1966 | 2-Nov-1966 | South Korea | Seoul, Suwon | State Visit. Met with President Park Chung-hee and Prime Minister Chung Il-kwon. Addressed National Assembly. | |
5 | 11 | 3-Dec-1966 | 3-Dec-1966 | Mexico | Ciudad Acuna (border city) | Informal Meeting with President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz. Inspected construction of Amistad Dam. |
6 | 12 | 11-Apr-1967 | 14-Apr-1967 | Uruguay | Punta del Este | Summit Meeting with Latin American chiefs of state. |
13 | 14-Apr-1967 | 14-Apr-1967 | Suriname | Paramaribo | Refueling stop en route from Uruguay. | |
7 | 14 | 23-Apr-1967 | 26-Apr-1967 | West Germany | Bonn | Attended the funeral of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and conversed with various heads of state. |
8 | 15 | 25-May-1967 | 25-May-1967 | Canada | Montreal, Ottawa | Met with Governor General Roland Michener. Attended Expo 67. Conferred informally with Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson. |
9 | 16 | 28-Oct-1967 | 28-Oct-1967 | Mexico | Ciudad Juarez | Attended transfer of El Chamizal from the US. to Mexico. Conferred with President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz. |
10 | 17 | 21-Dec-1967 | 22-Dec-1967 | Australia | Canberra | Attended the funeral of Prime Minister Harold Holt. Conferred with other attending heads of state. |
18 | 23-Dec-1967 | 23-Dec-1967 | Thailand | Khorat | Visited US. military personnel. | |
19 | 23-Dec-1967 | 23-Dec-1967 | South Vietnam | Cam Ranh Bay | Visited U.S. military personnel. | |
20 | 23-Dec-1967 | 23-Dec-1967 | Pakistan | Karachi | Met with President Ayub Khan. | |
21 | 23-Dec-1967 | 23-Dec-1967 | Italy | Rome | Met with President Giuseppe Saragat and Prime Minister Aldo Moro. | |
22 | 23-Dec-1967 | 23-Dec-1967 | Vatican City | Vatican City | Audience with Pope Paul VI. | |
11 | 23 | 6-Jul-1968 | 8-Jul-1968 | El Salvador | San Salvador | Attended the Meeting of the Presidents of Central American Republics. |
24 | 8-Jul-1968 | 8-Jul-1968 | Nicaragua | Managua | Informal Visit. Met with President Anastasio Somoza Debayle. | |
25 | 8-Jul-1968 | 8-Jul-1968 | Costa Rica | San José | Informal Visit. Met with President José Joaquín Trejos Fernández. | |
26 | 8-Jul-1968 | 8-Jul-1968 | Honduras | San Pedro Sula | Informal Visit. Met with President Oswaldo López Arellano. | |
27 | 8-Jul-1968 | 8-Jul-1968 | Guatemala | Guatemala City | Informal Visit. Met with President Julio César Méndez Montenegro. |
President John F. Kennedy
- President Kennedy made two trips to Europe along with six shorter international trips in the Western Hemisphere.
- The second trip to Europe was the first trip trans-oceanic trip using the dedicated jet known to the general public by its call sign Air Force One and more specifically as VC-137C SAM 26000. The trip included the famous speech Ich bin ein Berliner at the Berlin Wall, the visit of the first Catholic president to Vatican City, and the trip to Kennedy's ancestral Irish home.
T | # | Start | End | Country | Cities | Reason |
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1 | 1 | 16-May-1961 | 18-May-1961 | Canada | Ottawa | State Visit. Met with Governor General Georges Vanier. addressed joint session of parliament. |
2 | 2 | 31-May-1961 | 3-Jun-1961 | France | Paris | State Visit. Addressed North Atlantic Council. Met with President Charles de Gaulle. |
3 | 3-Jun-1961 | 4-Jun-1961 | Austria | Vienna | Met with President Adolf Schärf. held talks with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. | |
4 | 4-Jun-1961 | 5-Jun-1961 | United Kingdom | London | Private Visit. Met with Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. | |
3 | 5 | 16-Dec-1961 | 17-Dec-1961 | Venezuela | Caracas | Met with President Rómulo Betancourt. |
6 | 17-Dec-1961 | 17-Dec-1961 | Colombia | Bogota | Met with President Alberto Lleras Camargo. | |
4 | 7 | 21-Dec-1961 | 22-Dec-1961 | United Kingdom | Bermuda | Met with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. |
5 | 8 | 29-Jun-1962 | 1-Jul-1962 | Mexico | Mexico, D.F. | State Visit. Met with President Adolfo López Mateos. |
6 | 9 | 18-Dec-1962 | 21-Dec-1962 | United Kingdom | Nassau (The Bahamas) | Conferred with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. Concluded Nassau Agreement on nuclear defense systems. |
7 | 10 | 18-Mar-1963 | 20-Mar-1963 | Costa Rica | San José | Attended Conference of Presidents of the Central American Republics. |
8 | 11 | 23-Jun-1963 | 25-Jun-1963 | West Germany | Bonn, Cologne, Frankfurt, Wiesbaden | Met with Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and other officials. |
12 | 26-Jun-1963 | 26-Jun-1963 | West Germany | West Berlin | Delivered several public addresses. | |
13 | 26-Jun-1963 | 29-Jun-1963 | Ireland | Locale: Dublin, Wexford, Cork, Galway, Limerick | Addressed Parliament. Visited ancestral home. | |
14 | 29-Jun-1963 | 30-Jun-1963 | United Kingdom | Birch Grove, Sussex | Informal Visit with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan at his home. | |
15 | 1-Jul-1963 | 2-Jul-1963 | Italy | Rome, Naples | Met with President Antonio Segni, Italian and NATO officials. | |
16 | 2-Jul-1963 | 2-Jul-1963 | Vatican City | Vatican City | Audience with the newly elected Pope Paul VI. |
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
- President Eisenhower visited the Korean War zone as president elect in 1952. For the first six years of his presidency he only traveled within North America with the exception of two summit meetings in Geneva and Paris.
- In 1958, the Air Force added three Boeing 707 jets (designated SAM 970, 971, and 972), 707-153 models, into the presidential fleet. Starting in the summer of 1959 he made five major tours in one year to Europe, Southeast Asia, South America, Middle East, and Southern Asia. On his "Flight to Peace" Goodwill tour, from 3 December through 22 December 1959, the President visited 11 nations including five in Asia, flying 22,000 miles in 19 days.
- In his final overseas trip, Ike returned to Korea, and made the first presidential visit to Southeast Asia by stopping in Manila, and Taiwan.
- By the end of his eight-year term, Ike had visited 26 countries.
T | # | Start | End | Country | Cities | Reason |
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1 | 1 | 2-Dec-1952 | 5-Dec-1952 | South Korea | Seoul | Visit to Korean combat zone. [Visit made as President-elect.] |
2 | 2 | 19-Oct-1953 | 19-Oct-1953 | Mexico | Nuevo Guerrero | Dedicated Falcon Dam. |
3 | 3 | 13-Nov-1953 | 15-Nov-1953 | Canada | Ottawa | State Visit. Met with Governor General Vincent Massey. addressed joint session of parliament. |
4 | 4 | 4-Dec-1953 | 8-Dec-1953 | United Kingdom | Bermuda | Attended the Bermuda Conference with Prime Minister Winston Churchill and French Prime Minister Joseph Laniel. |
5 | 5 | 16-Jul-1955 | 23-Jul-1955 | Switzerland | Geneva | Attended the Summit Conference with British Prime Minister Anthony Eden, French Premier Edgar Faure and Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin. |
6 | 6 | 21-Jul-1956 | 23-Jul-1956 | Panama | Panama City | Attended the Meeting of the Presidents of the American Republics. |
7 | 7 | 20-Mar-1957 | 24-Mar-1957 | United Kingdom | Bermuda | Met with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. |
8 | 8 | 14-Dec-1957 | 19-Dec-1957 | France | Paris | Attended the Meeting of the NATO Heads of Government. |
9 | 9 | 8-Jul-1958 | 11-Jul-1958 | Canada | Ottawa | Informal Visit. Addressed joint session of parliament. |
10 | 10 | 19-Feb-1959 | 20-Feb-1959 | Mexico | Acapulco | Informal Meeting with President Adolfo López Mateos. |
11 | 11 | 26-Jun-1959 | 26-Jun-1959 | Canada | Montreal | Joined Queen Elizabeth II in ceremony opening St. Lawrence Seaway. |
12 | 12 | 26-Aug-1959 | 27-Aug-1959 | West Germany | Bonn | Informal Meeting with Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and President Theodor Heuss. |
13 | 27-Aug-1959 | 2-Sep-1959 | United Kingdom | London, Balmoral, Chequers | Informal Visit. Met Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Queen Elizabeth II. | |
14 | 2-Sep-1959 | 4-Sep-1959 | France | Paris | Informal Meeting with President Charles de Gaulle and Italian Prime Minister Antonio Segni. Addressed North Atlantic Council. | |
15 | 4-Sep-1959 | 7-Sep-1959 | United Kingdom | Culzean Castle | Rested before returning to the United States. | |
13 | 16 | 4-Dec-1959 | 6-Dec-1959 | Italy | Rome | Informal Visit. Met with President Giovanni Gronchi. |
17 | 6-Dec-1959 | 6-Dec-1959 | Vatican City | Vatican City | Audience with Pope John XXIII. | |
18 | 6-Dec-1959 | 7-Dec-1959 | Turkey | Ankara | Informal Visit. Met with President Celâl Bayar. | |
19 | 7-Dec-1959 | 9-Dec-1959 | Pakistan | Karachi | Informal Visit. Met with President Ayub Khan. | |
20 | 9-Dec-1959 | 9-Dec-1959 | Afghanistan | Kabul | Informal Visit. Met with King Mohammed Zahir Shah. | |
21 | 9-Dec-1959 | 14-Dec-1959 | India | New Delhi, Agra | Met with President Rajendra Prasad and Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Addressed Parliament. | |
22 | 14-Dec-1959 | 14-Dec-1959 | Iran | Tehran | Met with Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Addressed Parliament. | |
23 | 14-Dec-1959 | 15-Dec-1959 | Greece | Athens | Official Visit. Met with King Paul and Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis. Addressed Parliament. Traveled by sea from Athens to Tunis. | |
24 | 17-Dec-1959 | 17-Dec-1959 | Tunisia | Tunis | Met with President Habib Bourguiba. | |
25 | 18-Dec-1959 | 21-Dec-1959 | France | Toulon, Paris | Conference with President Charles de Gaulle, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. | |
26 | 21-Dec-1959 | 22-Dec-1959 | Spain | Madrid | Met with Generalissimo Francisco Franco. | |
27 | 22-Dec-1959 | 22-Dec-1959 | Morocco | Casablanca | Met with King Mohammed V. | |
14 | 28 | 23-Feb-1960 | 26-Feb-1960 | Brazil | Brasília, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo | Met with President Juscelino Kubitschek. Addressed Brazilian Congress. |
29 | 26-Feb-1960 | 29-Feb-1960 | Argentina | Buenos Aires, Mar del Plata, San Carlos de Bariloche | Met with President Arturo Frondizi. | |
30 | 29-Feb-1960 | 2-Mar-1960 | Chile | Santiago | Met with President Jorge Alessandri. | |
31 | 2-Mar-1960 | 3-Mar-1960 | Uruguay | Montevideo | Met with President Benito Nardone. Returned to the U.S. via Buenos Aires and Suriname. | |
15 | 32 | 15-May-1960 | 19-May-1960 | France | Paris | Conference with President Charles de Gaulle, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. |
33 | 19-May-1960 | 20-May-1960 | Portugal | Lisbon | Official Visit. Met with President Américo Tomás. | |
16 | 34 | 14-Jun-1960 | 16-Jun-1960 | Philippines | Manila | State Visit. Met with President Carlos P. Garcia. Traveled by sea from Manila to Taipei. |
35 | 18-Jun-1960 | 19-Jun-1960 | Republic of China (Taiwan) | Taipei | Met with President Chiang Kai-shek. | |
36 | 19-Jun-1960 | 20-Jun-1960 | South Korea | Seoul | Met with Prime Minister Heo Jeong. Addressed the National Assembly. | |
17 | 37 | 24-Oct-1960 | 24-Oct-1960 | Mexico | Ciudad Acuna | Informal Visit. Met with President Adolfo López Mateos. |
President Harry S Truman
After FDR died, Truman attended the Potsdam conference nine weeks after Germany's unconditional surrender. Nineteen months later he went on state visits in Canada, Mexico and Brazil all within a six-month period. For the next five years he did not go abroad.
T | # | Start | End | Country | Cities | Reason |
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1 | 1 | 15-Jul-1945 | 15-Jul-1945 | Belgium | Antwerp, Brussels | Disembarked en route to Potsdam. |
2 | 16-Jul-1945 | 2-Aug-1945 | Germany | Potsdam | Attended the Potsdam Conference with British Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. | |
3 | 2-Aug-1945 | 2-Aug-1945 | United Kingdom | Plymouth | Informal Meeting with King George VI. | |
2 | 4 | 3-Mar-1947 | 6-Mar-1947 | Mexico | Mexico, D.F. | State Visit. Met with President Miguel Alemán Valdés. |
3 | 5 | 10-Jun-1947 | 12-Jun-1947 | Canada | Ottawa | Official Visit. Met with Governor General Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis and Prime Minister Mackenzie King. |
4 | 6 | 1-Sep-1947 | 7-Sep-1947 | Brazil | Rio de Janeiro | State Visit. Addressed Rio de Janeiro Conference for the Maintenance of Continental Peace and Security and the Brazilian Congress. |
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
- FDR did extensive international travel by ship in the 1930s in the Western Hemisphere, frequently for fishing vacations.
- In 1943 he became the first sitting president to fly an airplane on a secret 16,695 mile mission to Casablanca. The plane for much of his voyage was the legendary Boeing 314 Clipper. Before the war this plane was flying directly across the Atlantic in less than 24 hours. However, war time secrecy forced his route. He went by land to Miami, flew to Trinidad and on to Belem Brazil. From there he flew to The Gambia in northern Africa (this leg took 19 hours). He switched planes and went on to Casablanca. On the return trip he took a 630-mile side trip from Gambia to Monrovia in Liberia.
- This initial trip to Europe was followed by two more wartime conferences in Europe.
# | Start | End | Country | Cities | Reason |
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1 | 6-Feb-1933 | 14-Feb-1933 | United Kingdom | The Bahamas | Fishing trip. [Visit made as President-elect.] |
2 | 29-Jun-1933 | 1-Jul-1933 | Canada | Campobello Island | Vacation. |
3 | 29-Mar-1934 | 11-Apr-1934 | United Kingdom | The Bahamas | Fishing trip. |
4 | 5-Jul-1934 | 6-Jul-1934 | Haiti | Cap Haitien | Informal visit en route to vacation in Hawaii. |
5 | 10-Jul-1934 | 10-Jul-1934 | Colombia | Cartagena | Informal visit en route to vacation in Hawaii. |
6 | 11-Jul-1934 | 12-Jul-1934 | Panama | Panama City | Informal visit en route to vacation in Hawaii. |
7 | 27-Mar-1935 | 6-Apr-1935 | United Kingdom | The Bahamas | Fishing trip. |
8 | 16-Oct-1935 | 16-Oct-1935 | Panama | Balboa | Informal visit with President Harmodio Arias Madrid while returning to Washington, D.C. from West Coast. |
9 | 24-Mar-1936 | 7-Apr-1936 | United Kingdom | The Bahamas | Fishing trip. |
10 | 28-Jul-1936 | 30-Jul-1936 | Canada | Campobello Island | Vacation. |
11 | 31-Jul-1936 | 31-Jul-1936 | Canada | Quebec | Official visit. Met with Governor General Lord Tweedsmuir. |
12 | 21-Nov-1936 | 21-Nov-1936 | United Kingdom | Trinidad | Stopped on the way to South America. |
13 | 27-Nov-1936 | 27-Nov-1936 | Brazil | Rio de Janeiro | Addressed Brazilian Congress. |
14 | 30-Nov-1936 | 2-Dec-1936 | Argentina | Buenos Aires | Attended session of Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace in Rio de Janeiro. |
15 | 3-Dec-1936 | 3-Dec-1936 | Uruguay | Montevideo | Official visit. Met with President Gabriel Terra. |
16 | 11-Dec-1936 | 11-Dec-1936 | United Kingdom | Trinidad | Stopped while returning to the United States. |
17 | 4-Aug-1938 | 5-Aug-1938 | Panama | Balboa | Informal visit with President Juan Demóstenes Arosemena during vacation in the Caribbean. |
18 | 18-Aug-1938 | 18-Aug-1938 | Canada | Kingston | Met with Lieutenant Governor of Ontario Albert Edward Matthews. Received honorary degree from Queen's University. Dedicated Thousand Islands Bridge. |
19 | 14-Aug-1939 | 16-Aug-1939 | Canada | Campobello Island, Sydney, Nova Scotia | Fishing trip. |
20 | 17-Aug-1939 | 20-Aug-1939 | United Kingdom | Bay of Islands, Bonne Bay (Newfoundland) | Fishing trip. |
21 | 21-Aug-1939 | 23-Aug-1939 | Canada | Halifax | Stopped while returning to the United States. |
22 | 27-Feb-1940 | 27-Feb-1940 | Panama | Cristobal, Balboa | Met informally with President Augusto Samuel Boyd during vacation. |
23 | 5-Dec-1940 | 5-Dec-1940 | United Kingdom | Jamaica | Inspected British base sites for possible American use. |
24 | 8-Dec-1940 | 8-Dec-1940 | United Kingdom | Saint Lucia | Inspected British base sites for possible American use. |
25 | 8-Dec-1940 | 8-Dec-1940 | France | Martinique | Conferred with U.S. officials. |
26 | 9-Dec-1940 | 9-Dec-1940 | United Kingdom | Antigua | Inspected British base sites for possible American use. |
27 | 12-Dec-1940 | 13-Dec-1940 | United Kingdom | The Bahamas | Inspected British base sites for possible American use. Met with the Duke of Windsor at Eleutheria Island. Returned to the U.S. on December 14. |
28 | 9-Aug-1941 | 12-Aug-1941 | United Kingdom | Argentia (Newfoundland) | Attended conference with Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Announced the Atlantic Charter. |
29 | 11-Jan-1943 | 11-Jan-1943 | United Kingdom | Trinidad | Overnight stop en route to Casablanca. |
30 | 12-Jan-1943 | 12-Jan-1943 | Brazil | Belem | Overnight stop en route to Casablanca. |
31 | 13-Jan-1943 | 13-Jan-1943 | United Kingdom | Bathurst (The Gambia) | Overnight stop en route to Casablanca. |
32 | 14-Jan-1943 | 25-Jan-1943 | Morocco | Casablanca | Casablanca Conference with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. |
33 | 25-Jan-1943 | 25-Jan-1943 | United Kingdom | Bathurst (The Gambia) | Overnight stop en route from Casablanca. |
34 | 26-Jan-1943 | 27-Jan-1943 | Liberia | Monrovia | Informal visit. Met with President Edwin Barclay. |
35 | 28-Jan-1943 | 28-Jan-1943 | Brazil | Natal | Informal visit. Met with President Getúlio Vargas. |
36 | 29-Jan-1943 | 29-Jan-1943 | United Kingdom | Trinidad | Overnight stop en route from Casablanca. |
37 | 20-Apr-1943 | 20-Apr-1943 | Mexico | Monterrey | Part of an exchange of visits with President Manuel Ávila Camacho across the border. |
38 | 17-Aug-1943 | 25-Aug-1943 | Canada | Quebec, Ottawa | Attended First Quebec Conference with Governor General Lord Athlone, Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and British Prime Minister Churchill. |
39 | 20-Nov-1943 | 20-Nov-1943 | France | Oran (Algeria) | Disembarked en route to Cairo. |
40 | 21-Nov-1943 | 22-Nov-1943 | France | Tunis (Tunisia) | Overnight stop en route to Cairo. |
41 | 22-Nov-1943 | 26-Nov-1943 | Egypt | Cairo | Attended First Cairo Conference with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. |
42 | 27-Nov-1943 | 2-Dec-1943 | Iran | Tehran | Attended Tehran Conference with Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. |
43 | 2-Dec-1943 | 7-Dec-1943 | Egypt | Cairo | Attended Second Cairo Conference with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Turkish President İsmet İnönü. |
44 | 7-Dec-1943 | 9-Dec-1943 | France | Tunis (Tunisia) | Conferred with General Dwight D. Eisenhower. |
45 | 8-Dec-1943 | 8-Dec-1943 | United Kingdom | Malta | Visited Allied military installations. |
46 | 8-Dec-1943 | 8-Dec-1943 | Italy | Castel Ventrano (Sicily) | Visited Allied military installations. |
47 | 9-Dec-1943 | 9-Dec-1943 | France | Dakar (Senegal) | Re-embarked for the U.S. |
48 | 11-Sep-1944 | 16-Sep-1944 | Canada | Quebec | Attended Second Quebec Conference with Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. |
49 | 2-Feb-1945 | 2-Feb-1945 | United Kingdom | Malta | Attended Malta Conference with Prime Minister Winston Churchill. |
50 | 3-Feb-1945 | 12-Feb-1945 | Soviet Union | Yalta | Attended Yalta Conference with Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. |
51 | 13-Feb-1945 | 15-Feb-1945 | Egypt | Great Bitter Lake, Suez Canal, Alexandria | Met with King Farouk of Egypt, Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I, King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. |
52 | 18-Feb-1945 | 18-Feb-1945 | France | Algiers (Algeria) | Briefed U.S. Ambassadors to the United Kingdom, France and Italy on the Yalta Conference. |
Presidential International Trips Pre-Aircraft
Theodore Roosevelt
The Panama Canal was the subject of interest for three of the earliest presidential trips abroad. In 1906, Theodore Roosevelt was the first sitting president to travel internationally.[16]
Start | End | Country | Cities | Reason |
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9-Nov-1906 | 26-Nov-1906 | Panama | Colón, Panamá | To inspect construction of Panama Canal. First visit abroad by any President or President-elect. |
William Howard Taft
William Howard Taft in 1909[17] and Warren G. Harding in 1920[18] visited the Panama Canal as President-elect.
Start | End | Country | Cities | Reason |
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29-Jan-1909 | 7-Feb-1909 | Panama | Colón, Panamá | Inspected construction of Panama Canal. Met with President José Domingo de Obaldía. [Visit made as President-elect.] |
16-Oct-1909 | 16-Oct-1909 | Mexico | Ciudad Juarez | Part of an exchange of visits with President Porfirio Díaz across the border.First foreign trip by a sitting president. |
Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson was the first sitting president to travel to Europe. He spent nearly seven months in Europe after World War I, interrupted by a brief return stateside that only lasted for nine days.[19]
Start | End | Country | Cities | Reason |
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18-Nov-1912 | 13-Dec-1912 | United Kingdom | Bermuda | Vacation. [Visit made as President-elect.] |
14-Dec-1918 | 25-Dec-1918 | France | Paris, Chaumont | Attended Preliminary to the Paris Peace Conference. Departed the U.S. December 4. |
26-Dec-1918 | 31-Dec-1918 | United Kingdom | London, Carlisle, Manchester | Met with Prime Minister David Lloyd George and King George V. |
31-Dec-1918 | 1-Jan-1919 | France | Paris | Stopover en route to Italy. |
1-Jan-1919 | 6-Jan-1919 | Italy | Rome, Genoa, Milan, Turin | Met with King Victor Emmanuel III and Prime Minister Vittorio Orlando. |
4-Jan-1919 | 4-Jan-1919 | Vatican City | Vatican City | Audience with Pope Benedict XV. |
7-Jan-1919 | 14-Feb-1919 | France | Paris | Attended Paris Peace Conference. Arrived In the U.S. February 24. |
14-Mar-1919 | 18-Jun-1919 | France | Paris | Attended Paris Peace Conference. Departed the U.S. March 5. |
18-Jun-1919 | 19-Jun-1919 | Belgium | Brussels, Charleroi, Malines, Louvain | Met with King Albert. Addressed Parliament. |
20-Jun-1919 | 28-Jun-1919 | France | Paris | Attended Paris Peace Conference. Returned to U.S. July 8. |
Warren G. Harding
Warren G. Harding's international trip was to Panama, British Jamaica and Canada 1923.[21]
Start | End | Country | Cities | Reason |
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24-Nov-1920 | 24-Nov-1920 | Panama | Colón, Baihos | Informal visit to Panama Canal Zone. [Visit made as President-elect.] |
30-Nov-1920 | 30-Nov-1920 | United Kingdom | Kingston (Jamaica) | Stopped while returning to the U.S. [Visit made as President-elect.] |
26-Jul-1923 | 26-Jul-1923 | Canada | Vancouver | Official reception during return from Alaska. |
Calvin Coolidge
- Calvin Coolidge's only international trip was to Cuba, where he addressed the Sixth International Conference of American States in 1928.[22]
Start | End | Country | Cities | Reason |
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15-Jan-1928 | 17-Jan-1928 | Cuba | Havana | Addressed the Sixth International Conference of American States. |
Herbert C. Hoover
- Herbert Hoover made an extensive good-will tour of Latin America in 1928 during the time when he was president-elect.[24]
Start | End | Country | Cities | Reason |
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26-Nov-1928 | 26-Nov-1928 | Honduras | Amapala | Good will trip. [Visit made as President-elect.] |
26-Nov-1928 | 26-Nov-1928 | El Salvador | Cutuco | Good will trip. [Visit made as President-elect.] |
27-Nov-1928 | 27-Nov-1928 | Nicaragua | Corinto | Good will trip. [Visit made as President-elect.] |
28-Nov-1928 | 28-Nov-1928 | Costa Rica | San José | Good will trip. [Visit made as President-elect.] |
1-Dec-1928 | 1-Dec-1928 | Ecuador | Guayaquil | Good will trip. [Visit made as President-elect.] |
5-Dec-1928 | 5-Dec-1928 | Peru | Lima | Good will trip. [Visit made as President-elect.] |
8-Dec-1928 | 11-Dec-1928 | Chile | Antofagasta, Santiago | Good will trip. [Visit made as President-elect.] |
13-Dec-1928 | 15-Dec-1928 | Argentina | Buenos Aires | Good will trip. [Visit made as President-elect.] |
16-Dec-1928 | 18-Dec-1928 | Uruguay | Montevideo | Good will trip. [Visit made as President-elect.] |
21-Dec-1928 | 23-Dec-1928 | Brazil | Rio de Janeiro | Good will trip. [Visit made as President-elect.] |
See also
References
- ↑ "Toronto Sun". 17 February 2009. Retrieved 24 February 2015.
- ↑ Travels of President Barack Obama U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian
- ↑ Travels of President George W. Bush U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian WebCitation archive
- ↑ Travels of President Bill Clinton U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian WebCitation archive
- ↑ Travels of President George H. W. Bush U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian WebCitation archive
- ↑ Travels of President Ronald Reagan U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian WebCitation archive
- ↑ Travels of President Jimmy Carter U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian WebCitation archive
- ↑ Joseph, Joel (November 4, 2010). "How Daulatpur Nasirabad became Carterpuri". The Times of India. Retrieved October 21, 2013.
Daulatpur Nasirabad in Gurgaon was a sleepy nondescript village on the outskirts of Delhi but it found a prominent place on the global map after Carter paid a visit to this village...This village has since then been renamed Carterpuri.
- ↑ Travels of President Gerald R. Ford U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian WebCitation archive
- ↑ Travels of President Richard M. Nixon U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian WebCitation archive
- ↑ Travels of President Lyndon B. Johnson U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian WebCitation archive
- ↑ Travels of President John F. Kennedy U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian WebCitation archive
- ↑ Travels of President Dwight D. Eisenhower U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian WebCitation archive
- ↑ Travels of President Harry S. Truman U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian WebCitation archive
- ↑ Travels of President Franklin D. Roosevelt U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian WebCitation archive
- ↑ Travels of President Theodore Roosevelt U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian WebCitation archive
- ↑ Travels of President William Howard Taft U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian WebCitation archive
- ↑ Travels of President Warren G. Harding U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian WebCitation archive
- ↑ Travels of President Woodrow Wilson U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian WebCitation archive
- ↑ Travels of President Woodrow Wilson U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian WebCitation archive
- ↑ Travels of President Warren H. Harding U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian WebCitation archive
- ↑ Travels of President Calvin Coolidge U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian WebCitation archive
- ↑ Travels of President Calvin Coolidge U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian WebCitation archive
- ↑ Travels of President Herbert C. Hoover U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian WebCitation archive
- ↑ Travels of President Herbert C. Hoover U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian WebCitation archive
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