List of International Trips Made By The President of The United States - President Lyndon Johnson

President Lyndon Johnson

President Johnson ended up flying 523,000 miles aboard it 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.

Table of Trips
# Start End Country Cities Reason
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 14-Apr-1966 15-Apr-1966 Mexico Mexico, D.F. Informal visit; met with President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz.
3 21-Aug-1966 22-Aug-1966 Canada Campobello lsland, Chamcook, N.B. Laid cornerstone at Roosevelt Campobello International Park and conferred informally with Prime Minister Pearson.
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 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 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 Korea Seoul, Suwon State visit; met with President Park Chung-hee and Prime Minister Chung Il-kwon.
11 3-Dec-1966 3-Dec-1966 Mexico Ciudad Acuna (border city) Informal meeting with President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz. Inspected construction of Amistad Dam.
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.
14 23-Apr-1967 26-Apr-1967 Germany Bonn Attended funeral of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and conversed with various heads of state.
15 25-May-1967 25-May-1967 Canada Montreal, Ottawa Met with Governor General Roland Michener, attended Expo 67, and conferred informally with Prime Minister Pearson.
16 28-Oct-1967 28-Oct-1967 Mexico Ciudad Juarez Attended transfer of El Chamizal from the US. to Mexico and conferred with President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz.
17 21-Dec-1967 22-Dec-1967 Australia Canberra Attended funeral of Prime Minister Harold Holt and 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 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 Audience with Pope Paul VI.
23 6-Jul-1968 8-Jul-1968 El Salvador San Salvador Attended 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 Jose 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.

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