Presidential Trips abroad

October 16th, 2015 at 1:24:45 PM permalink
Pacomartin
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When President Herbert Bush took office, the modified 747s were not ready yet. But he still took 7 trips to 17 countries in his first year in office (roundly beating the international travel of any President before him). His second year he took four international trips of one or two days before receiving delivery of the B747.

After the B747 was delivered, Presidential travel became much easier, and for the rest of his term, and for President's Bill Clinton, GW Bush, and Obama long and frequent presidential trips became routine.

Presidente Enrique Peña Nieto seems to be much more of a world traveller than any of his predecessors, especially to Asia. He is approaching the halfway mark of his term. One assumes that when he gets his Dreamliner, he will also increase the frequency of foreign travels.


1 1 10-Feb-1989 10-Feb-1989 Canada Ottawa
2 2 23-Feb-1989 25-Feb-1989 Japan Tokyo - Attended the funeral of Emperor Hirohito
3 25-Feb-1989 27-Feb-1989 China Beijing
4 27-Feb-1989 27-Feb-1989 South Korea Seoul
3 5 26-May-1989 28-May-1989 Italy Rome, Nettuno
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.
8 30-May-1989 31-May-1989 West Germany Bonn, Mainz
9 31-May-1989 2-Jun-1989 United Kingdom London
4 10 9-Jul-1989 11-Jul-1989 Poland Warsaw, Gdańsk
11 11-Jul-1989 13-Jul-1989 Hungary Budapest
12 13-Jul-1989 17-Jul-1989 France Paris
13 17-Jul-1989 18-Jul-1989 Netherlands The Hague, Leiden
5 14 27-Oct-1989 28-Oct-1989 Costa Rica San José
6 15 1-Dec-1989 3-Dec-1989 Malta Valletta, Marsaxlokk
16 3-Dec-1989 4-Dec-1989 Belgium Brussels
7 17 16-Dec-1989 16-Dec-1989 France Saint Martin (French West Indies)
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8 18 15-Feb-1990 15-Feb-1990 Colombia Cartagena
9 19 10-Apr-1990 10-Apr-1990 Canada Toronto
10 20 13-Apr-1990 14-Apr-1990 United Kingdom Bermuda
11 21 5-Jul-1990 6-Jul-1990 United Kingdom London



In contrast
President Ronald Reagan went to Canada twice and Cancun MX one time in his first year in office.
President Jimmy Carter went to London for the 3rd G7 summit with a side trip to Switzerland' Geneva where he met the Syrian President up through New Year's of his first year in office.
President Gerry Ford visited a little internationally when he took over from Nixon, but did not make a single international trip his last 400 days in office
President Nixon traveled fairly extensively internationally for the time period.
President LBJ went to one day trip to Canada in the entire year between JFK assasination and his own election.