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.
| # | Start | End | Country | Cities | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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 | 19-Nov-1974 | 22-Nov-1974 | Japan | Tokyo, Kyoto | State visit; met with Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka. |
| 3 | 22-Nov-1974 | 23-Nov-1974 | Korea | Seoul | Met with President Park Chung-hee. |
| 4 | 23-Nov-1974 | 24-Nov-1974 | U.S.S.R. | Vladivostok | Met with General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev and discussed limitations of strategic arms. |
| 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 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. |
| 8 | 1-Jun-1975 | 3-Jun-1975 | Austria | Salzburg | Met with Chancellor Bruno Kreisky and with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. |
| 9 | 3-Jun-1975 | Italy | Rome | Met with President Giovanni Leone and Prime Minister Aldo Moro. | |
| 10 | 3-Jun-1975 | Vatican City | Audience with Pope Paul VI. | ||
| 11 | 26-Jul-1975 | 28-Jul-1975 | Federal Republic of 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 on August 1. |
| 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. |
| 16 | 15-Nov-1975 | 17-Nov-1975 | France | Rambouillet | 1st G6 Economic Summit |
| 17 | 1-Dec-1975 | 5-Dec-1975 | People's Republic of China | Peking | Official visit; met with 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. |
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